He read a passage from Emerson.

他读了一段爱默生的作品。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

He quoted a passage from the minister's speech.

他引用了部长的一段讲话。

《牛津词典》

A passage was cleared through the crowd like magic.

好像有一股神奇的力量在人群中间开出了一条通道。

《牛津词典》

French troops in Canada built a fort to control passage to the lake as a defense against British troops moving north.

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Now this allusion here in this verse epistle to his father is to a passage from the book of Revelation.

在这封给他父亲信里的诗中所含的暗示,是从《启示录》中的一段话来的。

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What America do we see? I'm going to look back to a passage I talked about in a different vein last time, on 26 and 27, just for one quick example.

看到什么了呢？，我们看到了什么样的美国？，我想回到,上一次讲另一个脉络时讲到的段落，在26到27页。

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Boswell's heirs destroyed a passage in his diary where he describes a fling he had with Rosseau's mistress.

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Then he read a passage from Scottish theologian Oswald Chambers' My Utmost For His Highest.

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Or perhaps he was trying to crack the movement of a passage like this one.

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