| 单词 | passiveness |
| 释义 | passivepassive1 /ˈpæsɪv/ ●●○ AWL adjective 1someone who is passive tends to accept things that happen without taking any action: a passive role in their relationship She is a quiet passive woman.2not actively involved or taking part: The student’s role in a traditional classroom is largely passive. passive watchers of television3eng. lang. arts a passive verb or sentence has as its subject the person or thing to which an action is done, as in “Two men were injured in the fire.” OPP active: a paragraph written in the passive voice (=written using passive verbs and sentences)4passive vocabulary/knowledge words or knowledge that you can recognize or understand, but cannot think of or use on your own: Her passive vocabulary in French is fairly good. → see also active1—passively adverb—passiveness (also passivity /pæˈsɪvət̮i/) noun [uncountable] |
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