| 单词 | passive |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['pæsiv] |
| 解释 | a.被动的，缺乏活力的 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 adj. 被动的，消极的 (accepting what happens or what other people do) 【记】 pass（感情）+ive→ 感情用事的→被动的 |
| 字源 | 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. |
| 不择手段背单词 | 无 |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】音：怕死我，这是被动与消极，不要怕?；pass 过去，英语中的过去分词(past participle)就是被动的passive |
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