passive
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈpæs.ɪv/
美 /ˈpæs.ɪv/
英文释义
名词 n.
- The passive voice of verbs.
- A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.
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A customer who is satisfied with a product or service, but not keen enough to promote it by word of mouth.
— If you want to improve your organization's NPS, you need to follow up with your detractors, passives, and promoters to understand why they answered your question as they did and what you can do better in the future.
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Any component that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
— Reductions In Both Size And Weight Offered By Integrated Passives You may not know it yet, but if you're like most consumers, you want integrated passives.
- Ellipsis of passive attack.
- A thing whose worth decreases with time.
形容词 adj.
- Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
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Taking no action.
— He remained passive during the protest.
- Being in the passive voice.
- Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
- Not participating in management.
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Without motive power.
— a passive balloon
- Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
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Where allowance is made for a possible future event.
— There would be a shuttle service of four trains an hour from Reading, where the rebuilt station also has passive provision for the trains.
词汇关系
衍生词
activo-passive
antipassive
endopassive
exopassive
interpassive
long passive
mediopassive
neutropassive
nonpassive
paggro
passifan
passival
passivate
passivation
passive-aggressive
passive aggressor
passive armour
passive box
passive defense
passive-dependent
passive euthanasia
passive gravitational mass
passive immunity
passive income
passive investor
passive iron
passive learning
passively
passive matrix
passiveness
passive participle
passive photolocation
passive radar
passive resistance
passive resister
passive restraint
passive smoke
passive smoker
passive smoking
passive solar
passive speaker
passive suffrage
passive vape
passive vaper
passive vaping
passive vaporing
passive vapouring
passive vocabulary
passive voice
passivise
passivism
passivist
passivistic
passivity
passivization
passivize
pseudo-passive
pseudopassive
transpassive
unpassive
French passive
Greek passive
impersonal passive
short passive
词源
词源 1
From Middle English passyf, passyve, from Middle French, French passif, from Latin passivus (“serving to express the suffering of an action; in late Latin literally capable of suffering or feeling”), from passus, past participle of pati (“to suffer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”); compare patient.
词源 2
From Middle English passyf, passyve, from Middle French, French passif, from Latin passivus (“serving to express the suffering of an action; in late Latin literally capable of suffering or feeling”), from passus, past participle of pati (“to suffer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”); compare patient.
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