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单词 active
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active
(æktɪv )
1. adjective B1
Someone who is active moves around a lot or does a lot of things.
Having an active youngster about the house can be quite wearing.
...a long and active life.
Synonyms: busy, involved, occupied, engaged  
2. adjective
If you have an active mind or imagination, you are always thinking of new things.
...the tragedy of an active mind trapped by failing physical health.
Synonyms: energetic, strong, spirited, quick  
3. adjective B2
If someone is active in an organization, cause, or campaign, they do things for it rather than just giving it their support.
...a chance for fathers to play a more active role in childcare.
I am an active member of the Conservative Party.
He is active on Tyler's behalf.
actively adverb B2
They actively campaigned for the vote.
4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2
Active is used to emphasize that someone is taking action in order to achieve something, rather than just hoping for it or achieving it in an indirect way. [emphasis]
Companies need to take active steps to increase exports.
...active discouragement from teachers.
actively adverb [usually ADVERB with verb] B2
They have never been actively encouraged to take such risks.
...the White House says the president is not actively considering such a move.
5. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE]
If you say that a person or animal is active in a particular place or at a particular time, you mean that they are performing their usual activities or performing a particular activity.
Guerrilla groups are active in the province.
...animals which are active at night.
...men who are sexually active.
Synonyms: in operation, working, live, running  
6. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
An active volcano has erupted recently or is expected to erupt quite soon.
...molten lava from an active volcano.
7. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
An active substance has a chemical or biological effect on things.
The active ingredient in some of the mouthwashes was simply detergent.
8. singular noun B1+
In grammar, the active or the active voice means the forms of a verb which are used when the subject refers to a person or thing that does something. For example, in 'I saw her yesterday', the verb is in the active. Compare passive.
Collocations:
active citizen
It would mark passage between being a student citizenship and an active citizen.
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An active citizen movement arose in response, raising concerns about both the prospects for sustaining the local communities if the mountain closed.
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This neighborhood has an active citizen crime patrols, including one group of seniors who walk the neighborhood weekly to get physical exercise and report blight.
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Well educated adults are more likely to enjoy better health and be more engaged, active citizens, the study showed.
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Tomorrow's active citizens are developed in the schools of today.
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active citizenship
The future of active citizenship may depend on understanding why it ignited a generation.
Times, Sunday Times
The paper 'will now be written from the perspective of individual residents and the focus will be on encouraging active citizenship and reviving civic society'.
Times, Sunday Times
The programme of study for physical education, for example, requires pupils to spend time organising sporting events in the community in order to demonstrate 'active citizenship'.
Times, Sunday Times
Active citizenship, constructive improvement, neighbourly grassroots organisation and laborious benign public administration have somehow declined in status and esteem.
Times, Sunday Times
They do not have clear-cut political positions as such, but push for active citizenship.
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active combat
But there was something missing: active combat duty.
Times, Sunday Times
It was inactivated sometime after the active combat phase of the operation ended.
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Although they didn't participate in active combat, they were exposed to the same dangers as any on the home front working at military installations.
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Through reflections and personal stories of sacrifice and service, this program profiles the camaraderie and pride shared among those who engage in active combat.
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Her role, though, was not of an active combat nature.
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active component
The simplest salycilate compound, essentially the active component of aspirin, could prevent hearing loss.
The Scientist
Linalool, a component of lavender oil, reflected the activity of the whole oil, indicating that linalool may be the active component of lavender oil.
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Meat tenderisers in powder form with papain as an active component are widely sold.
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It took only two years for the active component to complete departure activities, including transferring personnel and assets to other military installations.
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Some of them include capsaicin, the active component of chili peppers.
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active compound
Research suggests that silymarin, the active compound in milk thistle seeds, increases production of glutathione, a vital detoxing liver enzyme.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The active compound has been chemically characterized and identified as 4,5-diethyl-3′-ethoxy-pyro-flavone.
Gopinath Rana 2018, 'Inhibition efficiency of a newly isolated flavonoid compound from Vitex negundo L. leaves against cattle-endosymbiont Setaria cervi: Phytomedicine for lymphatic filariasis', Parasite Epidemiology and Control
Hexanoic acid ethyl ester was the most prominent odor active compound.
Jingke Liu, Wei Zhao, Shaohui Li, Aixia Zhang, Yuzong Zhang, Songyan Liu 2015, 'Determination of Volatile Compounds in Foxtail Millet Sake Using Headspace Solid-Phase Microextraction and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry', Journal of Chemistry
active encouragement
There will be public sector savings, active encouragement of new technology start-ups and a public investment fund.
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Charitable activities during work hours raised 22,000 for good causes last year with the firm's active encouragement (88%).
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Like so much managerialism, the rules are an active encouragement to dishonesty.
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Stewards, though, have apparently shrunk from the invitation to use discretion, so the invitation has been rewritten to active encouragement.
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The court ruled that in order for aiding and abetting to have taken place, there must be evidence of active encouragement of the crime.
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active engagement
That needs to be addressed with clearer signposting and more active engagement.
Times, Sunday Times
This active engagement then carries over in the boardroom as well.
Christianity Today
I'm advised to 'try a more active engagement in your driving'.
Times, Sunday Times
We need to change what we can about how we operate and influence what we cannot change through active engagement.
Times, Sunday Times
They can move in and out of active engagement.
Times, Sunday Times
active genes
Proteins are made only because active genes specify that they should be made, but those genes are only active because proteins already present allow for their expression.
The Times Literary Supplement
Therefore, a person with a deletion in the paternal chromosome 15 will have no active genes in this region.
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Nuclear speckles have shown to serve neighboring active genes as storage places of these splicing factors.
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The discovery emerged after the entirety of active genes in endothelial cells was decoded, resulting in an atlas of organ-specific blood vessel cells.
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Genome-wide gain-of-function genetic screen identifies functionally active genes in mouse embryonic stem cells.
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active hostility
Celts have a long tradition of active hostility.
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But there was nothing approaching active hostility to the regime.
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Pope and emperor were superficially reconciled in 1076, but the following year saw them again engaged in active hostilities.
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active imagination
You have been stuck on your own during lockdown and an active imagination may have played a part in this.
The Sun
You have an active imagination - and it has been working overtime lately.
The Sun
The court, he complained, has 'an active imagination'.
Times, Sunday Times
When you're endowed with an original way of thinking, or with a highly active imagination, you can become quickly ostracised.
Times, Sunday Times
She developed an active imagination and fantasy life to cope with her loneliness.
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active investigation
All of the fires remain under active investigation and federal law enforcement continues to work to determine the cause of all of the fires.
Christianity Today
However, that leaves a large group of individuals who may also pose a risk to national security, but who are not under active investigation.
Times, Sunday Times
It remains an active investigation but as yet no charges have resulted.
Times, Sunday Times
The letter will be not retracted, but there was no active investigation into the complaint.
Times, Sunday Times
The police said that the document was part of an active investigation and should not have been in the public domain.
Times, Sunday Times
active learning
It's too passive for an era that emphasizes 'active learning' and creative thinking.
The Times Literary Supplement
Active learning has become popular in recent years.
Times, Sunday Times
The shock of moving from passive to active learning and having to study at masters' level proves too challenging for some, he says.
Times, Sunday Times
In these workshops teachers are trained in practices such as using interactive whiteboards and the latest web tools to facilitate active learning.
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Active learning means students have direct, hands-on experiences with people, objects, events, and ideas.
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active listening
They've gotten a lot of good training in seminary about how to do active listening, how to respect people, how to genuinely care for them.
Christianity Today
Start 'active listening' when it comes to your other half.
Times, Sunday Times
Active listening to patients involves picking up on cues, detecting signs of distress.
Times, Sunday Times
The key skills in this situation are those of active listening, tolerating silence, asking open questions (that require more than a yes or no answer) and remaining calm and non-judgmental.
Times, Sunday Times
That's why we need to create a culture of active listening for patients and staff.
Times, Sunday Times
active management
This means investors pay high fees for active management but get the returns of a cheap tracker — 'closet tracking'.
Times, Sunday Times
The estate will require significant investment but there are potentially attractive ways to increase income by active management and refurbishment.
Times, Sunday Times
It has been a tremendous honour to work with all of you as we have sought to redefine the future of active management across both public equities and private markets.
Times,Sunday Times
The firm defends the high charges on some of its tracker funds, despite their poor performance, on the grounds that they have some degree of active management.
Times,Sunday Times
It said all the issues with the plane were under 'active management' and that as issues are found, solutions are developed.
Times, Sunday Times
active member
Because active member discounts are unfair and few workers even realise they exist.
Times, Sunday Times
The active member discount rules were devised at a time when job switching was less common.
Times, Sunday Times
She was for many years an active member of the society's council and gave a number of lectures to the society.
Times, Sunday Times
These are an excellent way for communities to fight burglary and some insurers may give you a discount if you are an active member.
The Sun
Then she discovered the widow of a former pastor still listed as an active member, even though deceased for thirty years!
Christianity Today
active ministry
Many ministers who have lived in parsonages during much of their active ministry often face retirement without housing.
Christianity Today
He was near retirement, a seasoned and distinguished veteran who was about to back off a bit from the sweat and muck of active ministry.
Christianity Today
On the amalgamation of the two groups, he left the active ministry.
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He resigned this charge, and left the active ministry in 1818.
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Nonetheless, in 1982 he retired from active ministry to devote himself to full-time work as an artist.
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active movement
He had developed acute vertigo and since his role involved a lot of active movement this could have been dangerous for him.
Times, Sunday Times
The active movement of kinesins supports several cellular functions including mitosis, meiosis and transport of cellular cargo, such as in axonal transport.
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Cells achieve active movement by very different mechanisms.
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Elements of assessment will include analysis of posture, active movement, muscle strength, movement control and coordination, and endurance, as well as muscle tone and spasticity.
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From this state of mind, the practitioner uses gentle touch and a combination of passive and active movement to teach the body how to move with less effort.
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active participation
In any event, his increasingly frail health would have made any active participation in government an impossibility.
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They have the agreement (although not the active participation) of the other two.
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A record of 46 years' active participation, as player or referee, was only the precursor to his contribution to the development of the global game.
Times, Sunday Times
How can social care support emotional wellbeing and active participation in public life, and what are the funding implications of this?
Times, Sunday Times
His political colleagues remember him for his thoughtful approach to politics rather than active participation in the rough and tumble of debates.
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active politics
He was in the fortunate position of being removed from active politics and thus safely distanced from most controversies.
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But she said earlier this year that she would enter active politics if asked to do so.
Times, Sunday Times
Shortly afterwards he withdrew from active politics to focus on business activities.
Times, Sunday Times
Have they been able to do it without him since he retired from active politics?
Times, Sunday Times
The period following the election and throughout the 1950s was marked by their disengagement from active politics, he says.
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active promotion of
It comes after active promotion of metering for 15 years.
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Ways must be found to bring new vitality to these buildings through active promotion of their community and tourist value.
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He criticised the board for its active promotion of unlawful restraint as a result of 'its confused thinking' on the issue.
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One of the controversial but cardinal principles of the school was its active promotion of co-education.
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Fifty percent of their profits are invested in various wildlife schemes, health and education of the carving co-operatives workers, tree planting and the active promotion of fair/ethical trade policies.
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active pursuit
But also the value of experimentation and the active pursuit of failure.
Times, Sunday Times
The soft, protective edge of accountability requires my active pursuit and acceptance of others' help.
Christianity Today
His view sits uncomfortably with society's utilitarian demands, which privilege achievement and the active pursuit of happiness.
The Times Literary Supplement
And it turns out that the active pursuit of idealism keeps you young.
Times, Sunday Times
Soon afterwards he relinquished the active pursuit of his profession and devoted himself to scientific studies.
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active resistance
She now changes her terms of reference to 'active resistance', by which she probably means 'armed resistance'.
The Times Literary Supplement
Active resistance to the system was tiny.
Times, Sunday Times
The troops did not take part in active resistance.
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He assured the regent that no danger of active resistance was to be feared from it.
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There was no active resistance in the city.
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active retirement
But it sounds perfect for an active retirement.
Times,Sunday Times
He retired officially at the end of that decade, except that it was an active retirement.
Times, Sunday Times
We need cash now to support our active retirement years - not later on, thanks.
The Sun
That's stretching the ethos of an 'active retirement' a little too far.
The Sun
Look at the opportunities that this brave new world will give future generations: save and enjoy many years of active retirement to travel; take up new interests.
Times, Sunday Times
active role in
The government can and will play an active role in revival.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They would need to have played an active role hiding the donations.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
She also explained how she played an active role monitoring the race on behalf of her husband.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The former business school lecturer testified to the court in Palma last week that the princess played an active role in the foundation.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
In 1956 he married his third wife, a Belgian who during the war had taken an active role in the Resistance.
Howatch, Susan ULTIMATE PRIZES
active support
In this quest he could count on the active support of like-minded colleagues.
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Central government and local authorities can take some credit for their active support of cycling.
Times, Sunday Times
On the first point he has the developed world's sympathy and active support.
Times, Sunday Times
He later withdrew his active support but still gave contact information of people who could help.
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These data suggest that the presence of an individual who provides passive or active support reduces experimental pain.
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active supporter
He was a colonel in parliamentary army and active supporter of the parliamentary cause.
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She became an active supporter of libraries and other charitable activities.
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She remained an active supporter of charitable and theatrical organizations.
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Voting privileges are given to active supporter members who apply and who are not known to have a negative political affiliation.
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He was generally considered to be pro-labor and was an active supporter of social reform legislation, for example upholding a maximum-hours law as constitutional.
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active surveillance
I opted for 'active surveillance' and not treatment.
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Active surveillance has become increasingly common after studies suggested that it could help.
Times, Sunday Times
It involved active surveillance; tracking down infected people within affected villages, as well as their contacts, and the contacts of their contacts, for vaccination.
Times, Sunday Times
Recently patients have been given the third option of active surveillance.
Times, Sunday Times
However, urologists are getting better at assessing risk and are increasingly opting for 'active surveillance': repeat scans and biopsies rather than rushing to treat.
Times, Sunday Times
biologically active
The leukotrienes and prostaglandins are biologically active metabolites derived from arachidonic acid.
Ali Asghar Hemmati, Behnam Ghorbanzadeh, Mohammad Amin Behmanesh 2013, 'Potentiation of indomethacin-induced anti-inflammatory response by montelukast in formalin-induced inflammation in rats.', Acta Medica Iranica
This biologically active alkaloidal fraction was subjected to a phytochemical study to isolate and identify its major constituents.
Enas H. Abdel Rahman , Azza R. Abdel Monem 2014, 'Cholinesterase Inhibiting Activity and A New Piperidine Alkaloid from Lobelia laxiflora L. Roots (Campanulaceae)', Records of Natural Products
Cryoconite holes are considered the most biologically active environments on glaciers.
Andrea Franzetti, Federico Navarra, Ilario Tagliaferri, Isabella Gandolfi, Giuseppina Bestetti, Umberto Minora, Roberto Sergio Azzoni, Guglielmina Diolaiuti, Claudio Smiraglia, Roberto Ambrosini 2017, 'Potential sources of bacteria colonizing the cryoconite of an Alpine glacier.', PLoS ONE
It contains biologically active substances such as the metasilicic acid of 43 mg/dm3.
N. G. Myazina 2018, 'Water Man-Made Objects Used for Balneological Purposes (an Example of Volga-Ural Anticline and the Caspian Depression)', Vestnik Permskogo Universiteta: Seriâ Geologiâ
Finally, a series of manipulations of the tetracyclic scaffold obtained gave access to valuable precursors of biologically active molecules.
Javier Mateos, Nicholas Meneghini, Marcella Bonchio, Nadia Marino, Tommaso Carofiglio, Xavier Companyó, Luca Dell'Amico 2018, 'Microfluidic light-driven synthesis of tetracyclic molecular architectures', Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
economically active
More than 500,000 adults have never been economically active.
Times, Sunday Times
Nuclear families allow the economically active to nurture the young and prepare for a short retirement.
Times, Sunday Times
Out of an economically active population of 31,165, only 18,210 (58 per cent) have a full-time job.
Times, Sunday Times
The young and middle-aged, the fit and busy and economically active wouldn't dream of inquiring how each other slept.
Times, Sunday Times
If they fail to meet the criteria they will be deemed a 'jobseeker' or 'not economically active', and subject to other restrictions.
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fairly active
The season was fairly active with ten tropical storms, one greater than average, although most storms were short-lived.
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The 1893 season was fairly active, with 12 tropical storms forming, 10 of which became hurricanes.
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It was a fairly active season, featuring 16 tropical storms and seven hurricanes.
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It has a fairly active beach front district.
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The season was fairly active, with eleven storms, of which six became hurricanes and three became major hurricanes.
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geologically active
But it seems to be geologically active, which runs counter to most of our childhood views of the planet as a dead iceball.
Christianity Today
The wilderness encompasses an ecologically complex and geologically active landscape.
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Despite a rather temperate climate, almost the entire planet was geologically active, with widespread volcanoes and geysers causing numerous earthquakes and avalanches.
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mentally active
Studies show that people who do not go on to higher education can improve their memory and cognitive health if they stay mentally active.
Times, Sunday Times
So stay as mentally active as you can and keep learning.
Times, Sunday Times
You're physically and mentally active and your mind will zone into any new opportunities.
The Sun
Keep mentally active through education, work and even puzzles.
Times, Sunday Times
We reveal how you can sharpen your mind and stay mentally active for longer.
The Sun
metabolically active
When we feel cold, this metabolically active tissue launches into overdrive.
Times,Sunday Times
Cells that have a particularly low metabolic activity, such as lymphocytes, must be used in higher numbers than more metabolically active cells, so direct cell-to-cell comparisons are difficult.
The Scientist
These methods also allow the detection and identification of viable but nonculturable cells that are metabolically active but non-dividing.
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Large amounts of free iron in the circulation will cause damage to critical cells in the liver, the heart and other metabolically active organs.
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However, this paradox can be resolved if much of the volume of the organisms was not metabolically active.
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physically active
Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage stress, drink plenty of fluids and eat nutritious food.
The Sun
They discovered that youngsters with pals who exercised would also be physically active and exceed the recommended 60 minutes per day.
The Sun
Authorities should ensure applications fit 'the vision of a more physically active society', it says.
Times, Sunday Times
Get physically active for 30 minutes a day, five times a week for maximum benefit.
The Sun
Be physically active for 150 minutes a week, or just over 20 minutes a day.
Times, Sunday Times
politically active
A controversialist to the end, he remained politically active both nationally and regionally.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He then became politically active as a freedom of information hacktivist.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
They are open and inviting and it already seems like fun to be one of the 0.3 per cent of the British population who is politically active.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
A communist sympathiser way back in World War II, and politically active, sir.
Fay Weldon THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD (2003)
socially active
If they work they tend to spend their salaries, boosting the economy; they are also more likely to maintain their health and stay socially active.
Times, Sunday Times
Other examples they highlighted were theatre trips which keep people socially active while visits to art galleries boost memory.
The Sun
Well connected and socially active, the older generation are getting divorced and remarrying in greater numbers.
Times, Sunday Times
He married a con-temporary who was as outgoing and socially active as he was withdrawn and reclusive.
Times, Sunday Times
These top two classes were for the most part literate, property owning and politically/socially active.
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Translations:
Chinese: 活跃的
Japanese: 活動的な
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