"Passive" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 bèi dòng passive
 xiāo jí negative / passive / inactive
 jìng tài static / sedate / quiet / passive / (physics) static / steady-state / (electronics) quiescent
 xiāo jí xìng passive / passivity / negative / negativity
 zhǔ dòng to take the initiative / to do sth of one's own accord / spontaneous / active / opposite: passive 被動|被动[bei4 dong4] / drive (of gears and shafts etc)
 suǒ actually / place / classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc / that which / particle introducing a relative clause or passive / CL:個|个[ge4]
 ràng to yield / to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) / by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
 fǎn kè wéi zhǔ lit. the guest acts as host (idiom) / fig. to turn from passive to active behavior
 bèi dòng miǎn yì passive immunity
 bèi dòng xī yān second-hand smoking / passive smoking
 bèi dòng duàn liè passive rifting
  passive wiretapping
 wú yuán wēi bō fú shè jì passive microwave radiometer
  passive solar heating system
  liquid nitrogen passive freezer
 xiāo jí yòng hù passive user
使 xiāo jí shǐ yòng zhě passive user
 bèi dòng léi passive mine
  passive electronic countermeasure / passive ECM
  passive personality
  passive continental margin / divergent continental margin
  passive continental margin / divergent continental margin
西  passive continental margin / divergent continental margin
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