| 释义 |
pass-through, a. and n.|ˈpɑːsθruː, -æ-|
[f. vbl. phr. to pass through: s.v. pass v. 58.]
A. adj.
1. Through which something may be passed.
1955Sun (Baltimore) 24 Aug. 12/4 An arm length's [sic] away via the ‘pass-through’ window is the kitchen range. 1976C. Larson Muir's Blood (1978) xxix. 153 The phone rang..while Blixen was lifting it from his crowded breakfast table to the pass-through bar.
2. Of costs, etc.: that are passed on to the buyer; that are chargeable to the customer.
1972Time 17 Apr. 44/1 The commission may order an end to ‘pass-through’ profits. At present, businessmen are allowed to pass along to customers not only their increases in costs, but also to tack on their standard profit margins. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 14 Feb. 17/3 ‘Political’ ads are also excluded from pass-through expenses in most states, such as those that promote offshore oil and gas drilling.
B. n.
1. A passage; a means of passing through; spec. a hatch through which food, etc., is passed.
1958Washington Post 16 Aug. B3/2 (Advt.), Over-size dining-family room served by louvered pass-through from kitchen. 1959‘S. Ransome’ I'll die for You iii. 37 Anne..began piling the breakfast dishes in the pass-through to the kitchen. 1971Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 21 Oct. 15/1 Como sawed through two vertical bars in his cell into the passageway, and then ‘enlarged a food pass-through’ to get into an outside corridor. 1976C. Weston Rouse Demon (1977) xx. 94 Through the bar-type pass-through into the kitchen they could see a rusty stove. 1977Austral. House & Garden Jan. 58/1 Above the stove the pass-through overlooks the informal dining room.
b. fig. A route for money, profits, or investments. N. Amer.
1968Economist 18 May 77/2 Last March Ottawa promised to make sure that its banks and other financial intermediaries here would not permit American investors to use Canada as a pass-through for funds destined for the Euro-dollar market.
2. An act of passing through or passing on.
1975Sci. Amer. June 55/1 The beams collide at two regions on the perimeter of the ring... The probability of even a single e-e+ annihilation in any one pass-through of the bunches is quite low. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 5-A/3 O'Leary took the position that a Supreme Court decision of last Dec. 30, which permitted a temporary pass-through of Montana Power's higher Canadian-gas costs, has the effect of also authorizing reduced rates on an interim basis. |