passiveの意味・使い方・発音

passive

英 ['pæsɪv] 美 ['pæsɪv]

受動的

ラテン語のpati「耐える」「耐える」が語源で、語源的にはpassion「耐える」と同じ。

passive (adj.): late 14c., in grammatical sense (opposed to active), Old French passif "suffering, undergoing hardship" (14c.) and directly from Latin passivus "capable of feeling or suffering," from pass-, past participle stem of pati "to suffer" (see passion). Meaning "not active" is first recorded late 15c.; sense of "enduring suffering without resistance" is from 1620s. Related: Passively. Passive resistance first attested 1819 in Scott's "Ivanhoe," used throughout 19c.; re-coined by Gandhi c. 1906 in South Africa. Passive-aggressive with reference to behavior is attested by 1971.

1. Even passive acceptance of the regime was a kind of collaboration.: この政権を受動的に受け入れても一種の敵行為である。

＜dl>＜dt＞2.She hates playing the sweet， passive women that audiences identify her with.

彼女はきれいでかわいい、ネガティブで受け身な女性を演じるのが嫌いで、視聴者たちは彼女をこのような役に定型化している。