passport control

基本解釋

Harris: Thats really interesting, Richard. Tell me something: are bears required to stop at borders? Is there some sort of, I dont know, passport control for bears?
哈里斯：真是非常有趣，理查德。告訴我：難道熊也會遵守被人類劃分出的國家邊境線嗎？那是不是有一種……我不知道怎么說，類似于護照的東西控制著它們？
The row began on November 3rd when it emerged that passport-control officials had been relaxing entry procedures at Heathrow airport and elsewhere to manage queues.
這場紛擾開始于11月3日，起因是倫敦希斯羅機場的護照檢查人員為了維護排隊秩序放松了對入境人員的檢查流程。
The exit-entry control department of the public security organ shall issue the passport within 15 days from the date it receives the application materials;
公安機關出入境管理機構應當自收到申請材料之日起十五日內(nèi)簽發(fā)普通護照；

On a bad day, the queue at passport control stretches almost to the runway.
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He went through passport control, turned around, and flashed his parents a giant grin, his first that morning.
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Arrangements introduced in 2007 permitted certain checks to be skipped when queues at passport control become dangerously long.
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the place at a port, airport, or border where travellers' passports (= official documents proving who someone is and allowing them to travel) are checked