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| 1 | accepting what happens without trying to control or change events or to react to things 被动的；消极的 |
| a helpless and passive victim 无助和被动的受害者 |
| Watching television is a relatively passive activity. 看电视是一种相对被动的活动。 |
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| 2 | linguistics in a passive sentence , the subject is the person or thing that is affected by the action of the verb . ‘He was examined by another doctor’ is a passive sentence . 被动的；被动语态的 |
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| passively adv |
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| passivity noun U |
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| /pæˈsɪvəti/ |
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