"Passive" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 被动 | bèi dòng | passive |   |
| 消极 | xiāo jí | negative / passive / inactive | |
| 静态 | jìng tài | static / sedate / quiet / passive / (physics) static / steady-state / (electronics) quiescent | |
| 消极性 | xiāo jí xìng | passive / passivity / negative / negativity | |
| 主动 | 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) | |
| 于 |  yú | (of time or place) in / at / on / (indicating any indirect relation) to / toward / vis-à-vis / with regard to / for / (indicating a source) from / out of / (used in comparison) than / (used in the passive voice) by | |
| 所 | suǒ | actually / place / classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc / that which / particle introducing a relative clause or passive / CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 坐等 | zuò děng | to sit and wait / (fig.) to be passive / to sit back and wait for (success, an opportunity etc) | |
| 被 | bèi | quilt / to cover (with) / (literary) to suffer (a misfortune) / used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu:3you2] to "go on a trip") | |
| 让 | 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]) | |
| 反客为主 | fǎn kè wéi zhǔ | lit. the guest acts as host (idiom) / fig. to turn from passive to active behavior | |
| 被动免疫 | bèi dòng miǎn yì | passive immunity | |
| 被动吸烟 | bèi dòng xī yān | second-hand smoking / passive smoking | |
| 被动断裂 | bèi dòng duàn liè | passive rifting | |
| 被动窃听 | passive wiretapping | | |
| 无源微波辐射计 | wú yuán wēi bō fú shè jì | passive microwave radiometer | |
| 被动式太阳能采暖系统 | passive solar heating system | | |
| 液氮无源冷藏器 | liquid nitrogen passive freezer | | |
| 消极用户 | xiāo jí yòng hù | passive user | |
| 消极使用者 | xiāo jí shǐ yòng zhě | passive user | |
| 被动雷 | bèi dòng léi | passive mine | |
| 被动电子对抗 | passive electronic countermeasure / passive ECM | | |
| 被动属人管辖权 | passive personality | | |
| 被动型大陆边 | passive continental margin / divergent continental margin | | |
| 稳定型大陆边 | passive continental margin / divergent continental margin | | |
| 大西洋型大陆边 | passive continental margin / divergent continental margin | |
