a)pass somebody ↔ overBE if you are passed over for a job, someone else who is younger or lower in the organization than you is chosen for it 〔某项工作〕不考虑某人,跳过某人
This is the second time I’ve been passed over for promotion (=someone else has been given a higher job instead of me).
我这已经是第二次没有得到升职机会了。
nGrammar
Pass over is usually passive in this meaning.
b)pass over somethingIGNORE if you pass over a remark or subject, you do not spend any time discussing it 〔谈话中〕忽略某事,对某事不加理会
I want to pass over this quite quickly.
这一点我想一带而过。
I think we’d better pass over that last remark.
我想我们最好不要理会最后那句话。
Examples from the Corpus
passed over for promotion• And she was suddenly denied job interviews and passed over for promotion, she said.