fairly good but not excellent 過得去的；尚可的 She put on a passable imitation of a Scottish accent. 她裝出一副還過得去的蘇格蘭口音。 He served a bottle of very passable wine with the meal. 他随餐端上了一瓶很過得去的葡萄酒。 She did a passable job of fixing her make-up. 她化妝做得還過得去。
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if a road or a river is passable, it is not blocked and you can travel along or across it 通行無阻 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. 主樓梯還過得去。 making the roads passable for light vehicles 使道路適合輕型車輛通行
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from passer ‘to pass’.