passive

passive
adjective

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。
■(Chemistry)(of a metal) made unreactive by a thin inert surface layer of oxide
(化)（金属）钝态的；惰性的
■(of a circuit or device) containing no source of electromotive force
（电路，装置）无源的
■(of radar or a satellite) receiving or reflecting radiation from a transmitter or target rather than generating its own signals
（雷达，卫星）反射的；接收的
■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
(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

noun

(Grammar)a passive form of a verb
(语法)（动词的）被动语态形式
■(the passive)the passive voice
被动语态

派生
passively
adverb
passiveness
noun
passivity
noun
语源

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

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