pass away

基本解释

The storm should pass away before dark.
天黑前风暴就会停止了。
Sorrow is basically due to death of a loved one, failure and despair. But these things are temporary and pass away.
悲伤基本都来自于一个爱人的去世、失败还有绝望,但是这样的事情都是暂时的,总会过去的。
This graph shows the percentage of people, across different European countries, who are willing to donate their organs after they pass away.
这张图给出了几个欧洲国家居民愿意在去世之后捐献他们器官的百分比。

"We hope -- and we pray that this terrible war may pass away quickly.
This means the Israelites will have to wander for 40 years in the desert until all of those who left Egypt as adults pass away, leaving a new generation that hasn't really tasted slavery, to enter the land and form a new nation.
这意味着，犹太人必须在沙漠中流浪40年,直到所有一起出埃及的人过世，留下没有做过奴隶的，新一代人，进入应许之地，建立一个新的国家。
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That name would go away. The current policy calls for every student to be ableto pass state tests in reading and math by two thousand fourteen.

When the war and this regime will pass away, we will rebuild our life.
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You can say that someone passed away to mean that they died, if you want to avoid using the word "die" because you think it might upset or offend people.