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单词 passive
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passive

adjective
 
/ˈpæsɪv/
/ˈpæsɪv/
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  1.  
    accepting what happens or what people do without trying to change anything or oppose them
    • He played a passive role in the relationship.
    • a passive observer of events
    • She wore a passive expression on her face as if she didn’t care what happened.
    Extra Examples
    • Watching TV is a completely passive activity.
    • We are passive recipients of information from the world around us.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • seem
    • become
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
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  2. (grammar) connected with the form of a verb used when the subject is affected by the action of the verb, for example He was bitten by a dog. compare activeTopics Languageb1
  3. Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (2), also in the sense ‘(exposed to) suffering, acted on by an external agency’): from Latin passivus, from pass- ‘suffered’, from the verb pati.

passive

noun
/ˈpæsɪv/
/ˈpæsɪv/
(also passive voice)
[singular] (grammar)
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  1. the form of a verb used when the subject is affected by the action of the verb compare activeTopics Languageb1
    Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (2), also in the sense ‘(exposed to) suffering, acted on by an external agency’): from Latin passivus, from pass- ‘suffered’, from the verb pati.
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