But he leaves out something he well knows: the passive voice is the commonest way to avoid mentioning the agent in an English sentence.
但他漏掉了自己十分清楚的一点：英文句子中，被动语态是最常见的避免提及执行者的写作方式。
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A passive data source can be made to have an active interface by an agent that polls it periodically and actively sends information about changes in successive polls.
休眠的数据源也可以有个活跃的接口，方法是让代理定期轮询它，并在接下来的轮询中传输更改的信息。
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Hugo Weaving, as the chief Agent, USES a flat, menacing tone that reminded me of Tommy Lee Jones in passive-aggressive overdrive.