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passive    音标拼音: [p'æsɪv]
a. 被动的;消极的被动消极的东西;被动语态,被动式

被动的;消极的被动消极的东西;被动语态,被动式

passive
被动元件;无源;被动;消极

passive
无源 被动

passive
adj 1: lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the
passive order may be traced to a disinclination to
inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith [synonym:
{passive}, {inactive}] [ant: {active}]
2: peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive
resistance" [synonym: {passive}, {peaceful}]
3: 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}]
n 1: 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" [synonym: {passive voice}, {passive}]
[ant: {active}, {active voice}]

Passive \Pas"sive\, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See
{Passion}.]
1. Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving
impressions or influences; as, they were passive
spectators, not actors in the scene.
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The passive air
Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton.
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The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
its simple ideas. --Locke.
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2. Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or
active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient;
not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive
submission.
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The best virtue, passive fortitude. --Massinger.
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3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong
affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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4. (Med.) Designating certain morbid conditions, as
hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the
vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of
reaction in the affected tissues.
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{Passive congestion} (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to
the return of the blood from the affected part.

{Passive iron} (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the
action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It
is then not easily acted upon by acids.

{Passive movement} (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to
exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles
which ordinarily move the part.

{Passive obedience} (as used by writers on government),
obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a
duty in all cases to the existing government.

{Passive prayer}, among mystic divines, a suspension of the
activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul
remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of
grace.

{Passive verb}, or {Passive voice} (Gram.), a verb, or form
of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of
some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English,
she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is
assailed by slander.
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Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;
suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
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211 Moby Thesaurus words for "passive":
Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, abject, accepting, accommodating,
acquiescent, active, active voice, adapting, adaptive, adjusting,
agreeable, aloof, amenable, apathetic, asleep, assenting, bearing,
benumbed, blah, blank, blankminded, blase, bovine, calm,
cataleptic, catatonic, centrist, comatose, complaisant, compliable,
compliant, complying, consenting, contemplative, cool, dead,
deferential, desensitized, detached, disinterested, dispassionate,
do-nothing, docile, dopey, dormant, dull, empty, empty-headed,
enduring, even, fatuous, fifty-fifty, flat, flexible, forbearing,
foul, gentle, groggy, half-and-half, heartless, heavy,
hebetudinous, hopeless, humble, idle, immobile, impartial,
impassive, imperturbable, implicit, in a stupor, in abeyance,
in suspense, inactive, inane, incogitant, independent, indifferent,
inert, insouciant, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lamblike, languid,
languorous, latent, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, logy,
long-suffering, malleable, medio-passive, meditative, meek, middle,
middle voice, midway, moderate, motionless, neuter, neutral,
nirvanic, nonaligned, nonchalant, noncommitted, nondissenting,
nonpartisan, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, nonviolent,
numb, numbed, obedient, oblivious, on the fence, out of it, ovine,
paralytic, paralyzed, passive voice, patient, phlegmatic, placid,
pliable, pluckless, procrastinating, quiescent, quiet, quietist,
quietistic, receptive, reconciled, reflexive, relaxed, repressed,
resigned, sedentary, serene, servile, sheepish, slack, sleeping,
sleepy, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, soporific, spiritless,
spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, standing, standpat, static,
stationary, still, stoic, stolid, stupefied, subdued, submissive,
subservient, supine, suspended, tacit, tame, third-force,
third-world, thoughtfree, thoughtless, tolerant, torpid, tractable,
tranquil, unaffected, unaroused, unassertive, uncaring,
uncommitted, uncomplaining, unconcerned, undisclosed, unexpressed,
unideaed, unintellectual, uninterested, uninvolved, unmoved,
unmoving, unoccupied, unperturbed, unreasoning, unresistant,
unresisting, unresponsive, unrevealed, unshaken, unthinking,
untouched, vacant, vacuous, vegetable, vegetative, voice,
withdrawn, yielding

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  • PASSIVE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    passive implies immobility or lack of normally expected response to an external force or influence and often suggests deliberate submissiveness or self-control
  • PASSIVE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    PASSIVE definition: not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling See examples of passive used in a sentence
  • The Passive - Perfect English Grammar
    We make the passive by putting the verb 'to be' into whatever tense we need and then adding the past participle For regular verbs, we make the past participle by adding 'ed' to the infinitive
  • PASSIVE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    'Catrin told me' is an active sentence, and 'I was told by Catrin' is passive In a passive sentence, the subject is the person or thing affected by the action of the verb
  • Active vs. Passive Voice: Whats the difference? - Merriam-Webster
    When a sentence is in the active voice, the subject of the sentence is the one doing the action expressed by the verb In the passive voice, the subject is the person or thing acted on or affected by the verb's action
  • Passive - definition of passive by The Free Dictionary
    Used to describe a form of verb in which the grammatical subject is the object of the action, for example, the sentence “The government took steps ” in the passive would be Steps were taken by the government ”
  • Passive Voice: When to Use It and When to Avoid It - Grammarly
    Learn when to use passive voice and when to avoid it with these guidelines and examples Explore active vs passive voice and how to identify passive voice
  • Passives | LearnEnglish
    Do you know how to use the passive voice to change the focus of a sentence? Test what you know with interactive exercises and read the explanation to help you
  • What are the active and passive voice? - KS2 English - BBC
    When the subject of a sentence is less important than the action, you can choose to write in the passive voice Egypt was ruled by Tutankhamun about 3,000 years ago In the passive voice, the
  • Passive voice - Wikipedia
    Typically, in passive clauses, what is usually expressed by the object (or sometimes another argument) of the verb is now expressed by the subject, while what is usually expressed by the subject is either omitted or is indicated by some adjunct of the clause





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