pass muster

基本解释

Generally speaking, the time you spend with family or on genuinely career-building projects will pass muster -- but the extra three emails you can answer at 11 p.m. will fail.
一般说来，你和家人在一起或者你真正给自己做职业规划的时间是合格的、有意义的，但是你在半夜11点回的三封邮件，这个时间就不那么值得了。
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In 2006 protesters filled city streets after the House of Representatives passed a bill making illegal immigration a felony; but the proposal failed to pass muster in the Senate.
2006年，在众议院通过一项法案将非法移民定为重罪（后来未能在参议院获得通过）之后，各大城市游行抗议不断。
But it is not clear it would pass muster with the House Republicans, who view it (rightly) as a blatant abdication of responsibility that does not stipulate any deficit reduction at all.
但是，这一方案在众议院共和党人面前合格与否依然未知。共和党认为这是在厚颜无耻地推卸责任，根本没有做出任何减少赤字的决定（这种观点是有道理的）。

Now, it is possible to have sense without the sound of sense pass muster but makes very dull reading) and the sound of sense without sense .
这真是一个有野心的人哈，现在，没有感性的声音也可以做到,像点名很无聊,感性的声音没有感觉,就像在爱丽丝漫游奇境中，这让一切只剩沉闷的阅读。
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There were still glitches that meant the component didn't pass muster with Sony's quality police.
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If the patches pass muster, they will be put into the next official version.
ECONOMIST: Free software
But even if the figures pass muster for this year, what will they be like later?
ECONOMIST: Vive la différence?