fairly good but not excellent 过得去的；尚可的 She put on a passable imitation of a Scottish accent. 她模仿了苏格兰的口音。 He served a bottle of very passable wine with the meal. 这顿饭他配了一瓶非常合格的酒。 She did a passable job of fixing her make-up. 她在化妆方面做得很出色。
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if a road or a river is passable, it is not blocked and you can travel along or across it 通行无阻 The mountain roads are not passable until late spring. 山路要到春季末期才能通行。
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorryc2The main staircase was just passable. 主楼梯刚刚通过。 making the roads passable for light vehicles 使道路适合轻型车辆
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from passer ‘to pass’.