| 单词 | passive |
| 释义 | passive (once / 571 pages) 1adj 2adj 3adjn Passive is the opposite of active. In English class, you might be advised to avoid the passive voice. In chemistry, a passive substance doesn't react. Passive resistance is a way to protest peacefully. When you're passive, you don't participate much and you're not very emotional. In chemistry, passive means to be "unreactive except under special or extreme conditions; inert." Gandhi used the term passive resistance in the mid-twentieth century to describe the nonviolent approach Indians should use in their quest to become an independent nation. WORD FAMILYpassive: passively, passiveness, passives, passivism, passivity+/passivity: passivities USAGE EXAMPLESThe Boston Globe called “Beginners” “the passive work of a man nervous to touch the third rail of his parents’ discontent.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Her mood, always indomitable in her apartment, was passive and resigned, and she was not sure exactly where she was. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) And with this passive resignation, the problem only gets worse, the risks get greater and the choices are narrower. Time(Dec 28, 2016) 1 adj lacking in energy or will 2"Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith Syn|Ant inactive hands-off not involving participation or intervention resistless, supine, unresistingoffering no resistance active disposed to take action or effectuate change activist, activisticadvocating or engaged in activism hands-oninvolving active participation proactive(of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens adj peacefully resistant in response to injustice 3passive resistance Syn peaceful nonviolent abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence 1adj expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb academics seem to favor passive sentences Ant active expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: "Hemingway favors active constructions" 2n the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb `The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice `The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive Syn|Ant|Hyper passive voice active, active voice the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb voice (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes |
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