They want less passive ways of filling their time.(他们需要不那么消极的方式来打发时间。)
After such an experience an animal often remains passive even when it can effect change—a state they called learned helplessness.(经历过这样的经历后，动物往往会保持被动，即使它能带来改变——一种他们称之为习得性无助的状态。)
Listening is thus an active, not a passive, behaviour consisting of hearing, understanding and remembering.(因此，倾听是一种由听、理解和记忆组成的主动行为，而不是被动行为。)
His passive attitude made things easier for me.(他的被动态度使我办起事来容易多了。)
Did you seek an education in active performance, or did you seek to be educated in passive reception and automatic acquisition of information that was fed to you?(你是在主动表现中寻求教育，还是在被动接受和自动获取提供给你的信息中寻求教育？)
Nevertheless, the group took largely the same approach it did in 1999, uniformly discouraging passive media use, on any type of screen, for these kids.(然而，该组织采取了与1999年相似的方法，即，一致反对儿童被动接触媒体或接触任何类型的屏幕。)
Known as passive cooking, this on-and-off technique not only saves energy but can also help avoid overcooking vegetables such as corn on the cob.(这被称作被动烹饪，这种断点的烹饪技术不仅能够节约能源，同样可以避免像玉米棒之类的蔬菜烹煮过度。)
The students turned what could have been a passive interaction into an active one.(这些学生们把原本可能是被动的互动变成了主动的互动。)
Campaigners handed out leaflets on passive smoking.(发起人分发了关于被动吸烟的传单。)
This means that active learners raise questions on information that they read and hear, while passive learners accept both the printed page and the words of their professors as "truth".(这意味着主动学习者会对他们所读到和听到的信息提出问题，而被动学习者则会将书本和教授的话都视为“真理”。)
