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- accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance被动的; 消极的：
the women were portrayed as passive victims.
这些妇女被描绘成被动的受害者。
1.1
- Chemistry (of a metal) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide【化】（金属）经表面钝化处理的, 钝化的。
1.2
- (of a circuit or device) containing no source of electromotive force（电路, 装置）无源的。
1.3
- (of radar or a satellite) receiving or reflecting radiation from a transmitter or target rather than generating its own signals（雷达, 卫星）被动的。
1.4
- relating to or denoting heating systems that make use of incident sunlight as an energy source直接利用太阳热能的。
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- Grammar denoting or relating to a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to he killed them).【语法】被动的; 被动语态的。ACTIVE的反义词。
派生词
passively
adverbpassiveness
nounpassivity
noun词源
late Middle English （in sense 2, also in the sense '(exposed to) suffering, acted on by an external agency'）： from Latin passivus, from pass- 'suffered', from the verb pati.