Passivity

(noun.) the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative.

(noun.) submission to others or to outside influences.

科南录入

• His blue eyes burned with a keen, yet cold light, there was a certain beauty, a beautiful passivity in all his body, his moulding. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• All educational reformers, as we have had occasion to remark, are given to attacking the passivity of traditional education. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But there is a kind of passivity, willingness to let experiences accumulate and sink in and ripen, which is an essential of development. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• She sat still and let Tantripp put on her bonnet and shawl, a passivity which was unusual with her, for she liked to wait on herself. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Another dualism is that of activity and passivity in knowing. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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