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Passive Sense Attested 5752.Passive 英 Pæsɪv]美 Pæsɪv 释义

正面 5752.passive
英 ['pæsɪv]美 ['pæsɪv]

背面
释义:
adj. 被动的,消极的;被动语态的n. 被动语态
例句:
1. Even passive acceptance of the regime was a kind of collaboration.即使被动接受该政权也是一种通敌行为。

1、simul- + -ation.
passive 被动的,消极的来自拉丁语pati,忍受,承受,词源同passion.即承受的,引申词义被动的,消极的。
passive (adj.)late 14c., in grammatical sense (opposed to active), Old French passif "suffering, undergoing hardship" (14c.) and directly from Latin passivus "capable of feeling or suffering," from pass-, past participle stem of pati "to suffer" (see passion). Meaning "not active" is first recorded late 15c.; sense of "enduring suffering without resistance" is from 1620s. Related: Passively. Passive resistance first attested 1819 in Scott's "Ivanhoe," used throughout 19c.; re-coined by Gandhi c. 1906 in South Africa. Passive-aggressive with reference to behavior is attested by 1971."

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