passive state

基本解释

Predictably, her partner will wake up from his passive state and truly make many of the changes she requires.
可以预期的是，她的丈夫会从被动状态醒来，因着她的要求而改变。
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Most of us a are living in a passive state and we think that someone or something will change our life and save us, which is not a healthy mindset to carry around with you.
我们大多数人生活在一种消极状态中，并且我们认为某个人或某些东西会改变我们的生活并拯救我们，那不是一种你该有的健康心态。
Based on the cyclic voltameter it could be concluded that in the working potential reign of the nickel electrode steel under the micropores was in the passive state and could not corrode.
循环伏安图谱说明，在镍电极工作的电位区域，微孔中钢铁处于钝态，不会腐蚀。

Satisfaction is a passive state, isn't it?
FORBES
Iraqis, when they weren't being persecuted, were encouraged to see themselves as passive beneficiaries of a providential state.
ECONOMIST: How to get ahead in Bremer's Iraq
The working assumption is that power is theft and that when its venal rulers are not actively thieving they are passive connivers in the collapse of the state.
FORBES: The Guardian's Visceral Dislike of Vladimir Putin and Strange Perspective on Russia