| 释义 |
passive resistanceˌpassive reˈsistance noun [uncountable]   - But passive resistance doesn't work.
- He might have been, like Gandhi, an apostle of passive resistance.
- Nor could Edna forgive Jane her offensive passive resistance.
- Open negativism turns into stony passive resistance.
- The firm and repeated instruction of the strike organisers was that passive resistance alone was to be used.
- The Magdalen College affair, for example, provides a classic example of passive resistance.
- There was great resentment, and considerable passive resistance.
- Within the classroom too teachers have to live with an active or passive resistance to their best efforts.
► Policiesagitprop, nounapartheid, nounclass struggle, nouncollectivism, nouncolonialist, nouncommunism, nounconsciousness raising, nounconsumerism, noundemocrat, noundemocratic, adjectivedemocratize, verbdenationalize, verbdesegregate, verbdoctrine, noundogma, noundove, noundovish, adjectivedrive, nounfiat, nounhawk, nouninternationalism, noun-ism, suffixism, nounland reform, nounMachiavellian, adjectivemanifesto, nounMarxism, nounmeritocracy, nounnihilism, nounnon-aggression, nounnon-intervention, nounnon-partisan, adjectivenon-violence, nounopen-door policy, nounpacifism, nounpacifist, nounparty line, nounpassive resistance, nounperestroika, nounpolitical action committee, nounprivate member's bill, nounprogramme, nounradical, adjectivereaction, nounreformist, adjectiverevisionism, nounsocial democracy, nounsocial engineering, nounsocialism, nounsocialist, adjectivesocialist, nounsubsidiarity, nounwomen's lib, noun a way of protesting against something or opposing a government without using violence:  They tried to achieve their aims by passive resistance. |