| 释义 |
‖ en passant, adv.|ɑ̃ pasɑ̃|
[Fr.]
1. In passing; by the way; in the course of a narrative, etc.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl., Disc. Medit. (1675) 57 Having given you this Advertisement, en passant, we may now proceed. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God I. viii. 162 We ought not to receive them but en Passant, and by the way. 1838S. Lover Handy Andy iii, His pursuer..gave a back-handed slap at the window-bottles, en passant. 1860Adler Fauriel's Prov. Poetry viii. 161 It is sufficient..to indicate..en passant the existence of the histories in question.
2. Chess. to take (a pawn) en passant: to take with one of your own pawns an adversary's pawn that has been moved forward two squares, passing over the square on which it would by the general rule have been liable to capture by your pawn.
1818W. S. Kenny Pract. Chess Exerc. 106 You prevent him by pushing immediately your queen's knight's pawn upon his knight, which..obliges the adversary to take your pawn en passant. |