pass through
pass through は英検準1級・TOEIC 600レベルの英単語で、「通過する、経験する、経る」という意味があります。発音記号は /ˈpæs ˈθruː/ です。
通過する
解説 Definition
ある地点や領域を通り抜けることを意味し通過や通行を表す基本的な語です。移動や旅行の話でよく使われ道中の景色や手続きに触れる場面で登場します。
To go across, into, or through a place on the way to somewhere else. It is often used for travel, movement, or processes that continue through an area or stage. It can also mean to experience something directly and continue beyond it.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
pass through は、場所や区域の中を進んで向こう側へ出る「通過する」という意味です。pass は「通る」、through は「中を抜ける」なので、入口から入り出口へ抜ける動きを作ります。tunnel, city, village, checkpoint, customs のような空間や手続きと相性がよく、旅行・移動・検査の場面でよく使われます。実際に進んで通る絵を思い浮かべましょう。
Think of pass as moving by, and through as going in one side and out the other side. Together, they give a clear picture of continuing through a place. Link it with phrases like pass through a tunnel, pass through the city, or pass through customs.
例文
We passed through three small towns before reaching the mountain village.
山村に着く前に私たちは三つの小さな町を通り抜けた。
The convoy passed through the checkpoint without stopping after the paperwork was approved.
書類が確認されると部隊は検問所を止まらずに通過した。
経験する、経る
(意味 2)解説 Definition
人生の段階、困難な時期、変化の過程などを実際に経験して通り抜ける意味です。病気、危機、成長段階など、一時的だが影響のある出来事を経る場面で使われます。
To pass through something can mean to experience a stage, period, or difficult situation and move beyond it. It is often used for temporary but important events such as illness, crisis, change, or growth. The phrase suggests going through that time in real life, not just watching it happen. It is especially natural with words like phase, period, stage, or changes.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
pass は「先へ進む」、through は「中を通って向こう側へ」という感覚です。場所だけでなく、時間や状況にも使うと「その期間や状態の中を進んで抜ける」になります。go through と近いですが、pass through は stage, period, changes など、一時的な段階を自然に経ていく響きが出やすいです。物理的な「通過する」と混同せず、a difficult period や a phase と結びつけて覚えるとよいです。
Think of pass as moving forward and through as going from one side to the other. When you use them together for time or situations, the image is moving through a period until you come out of it. That is why pass through can mean experiencing a phase, change, or difficult time. Remember it with phrases like a difficult period or a phase, not only with physical movement.
例文
Everyone passes through difficult times at some point in life.
誰でも人生のどこかでつらい時期を経る。
She passed through a long period of uncertainty before finding a new direction.
彼女は新しい方向を見つける前に、長い不安の時期を経験した。
Children often pass through several emotional changes as they grow up.
子どもは成長する中で、いくつもの感情の変化を経ることが多い。
pass through の語源・成り立ち Etymology
passはラテン語passus（歩み）→古フランス語passer（通る）から。throughは古英語þurh（貫いて）。合わせて「貫き通る→通過する」。関連語: passage（通路）、passenger（乗客）。空間を端から端まで突き抜けるイメージ。
`pass` came through Old French from Latin roots connected with a step or movement, and it came to mean going by or moving through. `through` comes from Old English `thurh`, meaning across or from one side to the other. Together, `pass through` keeps that basic picture of moving across a space completely. Related words include `passage` and `passenger`.
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