This sentence is in the passive voice.

这句子是被语态。

So why do we use the passive voice?

那么我们为什么要用被语态呢？

First, don't use the passive voice unless you have a good reason.

首先，不要使用被语态，除非你有理由。

Or in the passive voice, my father was brought up to respect authority.

或者用被语态，我父亲从小就被教育要尊重权威。

Even the feeling of sadness is floating there unclaimed. Children hear the passive voice.

甚至没有任何人为此感到悲伤。孩子们听到都是被语态。

And we're also going to quiz you about the passive voice in English.

我们还会考考你英语中被语态。

Composed of, you can only use in the passive voice.

“Composed of”只能用于被语态。

With the passive voice, the writer usually expresses fear of not being taken seriously; it is the voice of little boys wearing shoepolish mustaches and little girls clumping around in Mommy's high heels.

被语态通常会让作者显露出·种担忧，怕人家不拿他认真对待；被语态犹如小男孩嘴巴上用鞋油抹了两撇小胡子，或是小姑娘踩着高跟鞋踉跄踱步。

Yes. And when you topple a leader, often it's used in the passive voice so we can say that someone has been toppled.

是。当你推翻领导人时，通常用被语态，所以我们可以说某人已经被推翻了。

Now, you should know that this is a more informal way of using the passive voice and in some cases, you can't use " get" in a passive voice to replace " be" .

那么，你应该知道，这是被语态非正式用法，而且在某些情况下，你不能将“get”用于被语态来取代“be”。

Your protagonists should be active protagonists, but there are several contexts that aren't even mentioned here that you can use the passive voice in, and I just used a preposition at the end of a sentence.

你主角应该是主语，但是有几甚至连上下文都没有提到，你可以在句末使用被语态，而我只是在句末使用了介词。

It may be surprising to see variations because when you learn to form the passive voice, you mostly practice using by-phrases to name the agent, that is, the doer of the action.

看到这些变化可能会令人惊讶，因为当你学习构成被语态时，你主要练习使用“by”来指代施者，也就是作执行者。

In part three, to achieve the band 7-9 range, you must present the examiner with complex grammar, meaning present perfect, past perfect, passive voice, conditionals, and more.

在第三部分，要达到 7-9 分范围，你必须向考官展示复杂语法，即现在完成时，过去完成时，被语态，条件句等等。

You will definitely hear the unstressed forms of be when it's used as an auxiliary verb in the continuous tense, in the passive voice.

当它作为进行时态或被语态助词时候，你肯定会听到 be 非重读形式。

Some reports or social media posts might contain a little more of the passive voice or a little more of the active voice.

有些报告或社交媒体帖子可能会多点被语态或多点主语态。

And in an earlier Everyday Grammar program we discussed that " get" can be used with the passive voice although it is rare.

在之前《日常语法》节目中，我们讨论了get可以与被语态连用，尽管这种情况很少见。

Or an example of the passive voice could be: " His business was beleaguered with financial problems since the beginning" .

“他生意从开始就陷入了财务问题。”

Let me know if you'd like a video on the passive voice, because I've seen a couple of requests for it.

如果你想要有关被语态视频，请告诉我，因为我已经看到了些关于它请求。

We don't use the passive voice with " let" . " Allow" or " permit" is normally used instead.

我们不用被语态和" let" 连用。通常使用“Allow”或“permit”来代替。

The passive voice: " Loyalty was recognised as one of my strengths."

“忠诚被认为是我优点之。”