passive
US:/ˈpæsɪv/
UK:/'pæsɪv/
n.:
被动语态；动词被动形式
adj.:
消极的；被动的；（动词形式）被动语态的
网络:
被动式；无源；被动技能
Word forms: (复数) passives
Examples
1.
In passive sleep, the body is at rest, the heart slows down and the brain becomes very inactive.
在被动的睡眠中，身体是休息的，心跳减慢，大脑开始变得非常的沉静。
2.
With multimedia, you don' t have to be a passive recipient. You can control. You can interact. You can make it do what you want it to do.
对于多媒体，你不再是一个被动的观众，你可以控制，可以交互作用，可以让它按你的需要去做。
3.
For this reason, the planning of passive cabling needs to be designed in such a way that operation is possible over a much longer period.
因此，被动布线在规划时，需要设计成一个长时期有效的形式。
4.
After all, he had been a largely passive vice-president and before that an unexceptional state governor.
毕竟，他在很大程度上是一个无权的副总统，并且在此之前，他只是一个平常的州长。
5.
Their function was not to be passive, but active. The sphere of its action was to be this present life.
他们的工作不是消极的，而是积极的，而这些将成为他们的生活的主题。
6.
Gandhi objected to "passive resistance" as a translation of Satyagraha: in Gujarati, it seems, the word means "firmness in the truth. "
甘地反对把Satyagraha译成“消极抵抗”：好象在古吉拉特语里，词义是“坚持真理”。
7.
The next one questions that and looks at passive nature, or passively trying to have reconfiguration programmability.
下一个问题是看看被动性，或被动地尝试让重组具有可编程性。
8.
As she takes a passive attitude towards life, it is impossible for her to give any favourable remarks to the management reform.
鉴于她对生活的消极态度，她不可能在改革管理部门的事情上给予支持。
9.
The battles fought have been mostly passive, or to put it in military terms, have been battles of "pure defence" .
打的大半都是被动的仗，军事术语叫做“单纯防御”。
10.
So why is the Bernanke Fed being just as passive now as the Bank of Japan was a decade ago?
那么为什么伯南克的美联储如今也跟10年前的日本银行一样的那么被动呢？