This is your passive vocabulary, all the words you can recognize.

这是你的被动词汇，所有你能认识的词汇。

We have the active vocabulary and we have a smaller passive vocabulary.

我们母语中有主动词汇，我们还有较小范围的被动词汇。

And it's also much smaller in size than your passive vocabulary and that's totally normal.

而且它的大小也比你的被动词汇要小得多，这是完全正常的。

Spending just a few minutes each day focusing on one word from your passive vocabulary.

每天只花几分钟，专注于被动词汇中的一个单词。

I'll tell you why, it's because it's part of your passive vocabulary.

我会告诉你为什么，这是因为它是被动词汇的一部分。

So, having lots of passive vocabulary and three or four books full of word lists, that's a start.

所以，拥有大量的被动词汇和三、四本书的词汇表，这是一个开始。

And I've said this before in videos, I'm a great believer in the power of passive vocabulary.

我之前在视频中说过，我非常相信被动词汇的力量。

You want to take those words from your passive vocabulary and move them across to your active vocabulary.

你需要将这些单词从被动词汇表中提取出来，然后转移到主动词汇表中。

We can't just sit down and write a big list of all of the words of our passive vocabulary.

我们不能只是坐下来把所有的被动词汇给列个清单。

Even though English is my first language my passive vocabulary is also so much greater than my active vocabulary, it's very normal.

尽管英语是我的第一语言，但我的被动词汇量也比我的主动词汇量大得多，但这是很正常的。

Also, the introvert has a really wide passive vocabulary.

此外，内向的人有非常广泛的被动词汇。

To do all of that I have to have a large passive vocabulary, not just a thousand words, 10,000 words, 20,000, 30,000.

要做到这一切，我必须有大量的被动词汇，不仅仅是一千个单词，一万个单词，两万个单词，三万个单词。

Now, some people say, oh, and I should also point out that the only thing we can measure at LingQ is your passive vocabulary.

现在，有些人会说，哦，我还应该指出，在 LingQ，我们唯一能衡量的是你的被动词汇量。

But remember that I say my first goal is to increase my vocabulary, acquire words, largely passive vocabulary that enables me then to start reading.

但请记住，我说过我的第一个目标是增加词汇量，掌握词汇，主要是被动词汇，这样我才能开始阅读。

And one -- the reason this is also a bad thing for extroverts is it also means they have a small passive vocabulary.

还有一个——这对外向的人来说也是一件坏事的原因是，这也意味着他们的被动词汇量很小。

It's in your passive vocabulary, you already know that it's a verb and that it means refuse, it means to say no in a polite way.

它在你的被动词汇中，你已经知道这是一个动词，意思是拒绝，意思是礼貌地拒绝。

In a nutshell, passive vocabulary includes the words stored in verbal memory that people partially understand, but not well enough for active use.

简言之，被动词汇包括储存在语言记忆中的词汇，人们部分地理解了这些词汇，但还不足以主动使用。

First, you want to identify the right words, meaning, words that are in your passive vocabulary, but not in your active vocabulary - words that you know, but you never use.

首先，找到属于你的被动词汇，理解它的含义——你知道的单词，但你从不使用。

You can recognize those words in moments where you get stuck, when you look for a word and it's not available, because it's in your passive vocabulary, but you know it.

当你不知道说些什么的时候，你能想出这些词，因为它在你的被动词汇中，但你知道它。

But learning how to harness those words that make up our passive vocabulary is a really good way to increase our active vocabulary without actually having to learn completely new words, right?

但是，学习如何利用构成被动词汇的单词是增加主动词汇而无需实际学习全新的单词的一个好方法，对吗？