passive1/ˋpæsIv; ˈpæsIv/adj 1 someone who is passive accepts what happens or what people say without trying to change or influence it [ active ] 消极的﹔被动的: their passive acceptance of their fate 他们对命运的消极接受2 technical used to describe a verb or sentence in which the subject of the verb is affected by the action rather than doing the action. In the sentence ‘I was invited to the party’, the verb is passive. [ active ] 【术语】〔动词或句子〕被动式的〔如句子 I was invited to the party 中的动词就是被动式〕—passively adv —passivity /pæˋsIvətI; pæˈsIvəti or pæˈsIvIti/n [U]
passive2n the passive (voice) technical the passive form of a verb【术语】〔动词的〕被动式﹐被动语态