Seeing is touching, an active process, not a passive one.

看到，便能有所了解，这是一个主动而非被动的过程。

This passivity in the face of money enraged Sartre at a political level.

这种面对金钱的被动激怒了萨特的政治层面的见解。

This is the heart of scholarship: moving from teacher-taught to master-inspired, on over to the point where you become a self-learner.

做学问的髓就在于可以使你从被动学习转向主动学习——直至成为一个正具有学习能动力的自学者。

Dunno. How were they selected? Did they volunteer or were they approached?

不知道。他们是怎么选择的呢？他们是主动参与还是被动的呢？

The machine would not be a passive participant but would add its own suggestions, information, and opinions; it would sometimes take the initiative in developing or changing the topic and would have a personality of its own.

这个机器不是一个被动的参与者，加入自己的建议、信息和观点；有时主动进行或改变话，而且拥有自己的性格。

In short, it means that rather than passively sitting back and simply letting someone else talk while waiting for your chance to speak, you engage in the conversation without words.

简言之，这意味着你不是被动地坐在后面，或单纯在等待你发言的机时听别人说话，而是你在无言的交谈中。

This is the process of truly engaging with the text instead of passively just running your eyes over it, which will help you retain a lot more of what you read.

积极阅读是一个正融入文本的过程，而不是被动地浏览文本，这将帮助你记住更多你读过的内容。

This sentence is in the passive voice.

这个句子是被动语态。

These can be divided into preformed or passive defense mechanisms and inducible or active systems.

这些可以分为预先防御机制和被动防御机制，以及可诱导或活跃机制。

So why do we use the passive voice?

那么我们为什么要用被动语态呢？

But we're not passive when we watch.

然而事实上我们并非被动的观众。

Passive inspiration can give you ideas, but active inspiration will give you power.

被动的灵感可以给你想法，但主动的灵感给你力量。

So when you're in any situation in life, you can choose to be reactive or proactive, but the basic idea is that by choosing to be proactive, you choose to increase your circle of influence.

当你处于人生中的任何境遇中，你可以选择被动或者主动，但是基本思路是如果选择主动，你就选择了增大影响圈。

Second, when haters are passive-aggressive, act as if they're being genuine.

其次，当仇恨者处于被动攻击时，你要表现出认为他们是诚的。

You should avoid the passive voice and use the active voice most of the time.

你应该避免使用被动语态，并且大部分时使用主动语态。

The Irulan in the first book did as she was told and nothing more - a passive participant in her own life - though what she does later in the series is another story entirely.

在第一本书中，伊茹兰只做了她被告知的事——被动地参与了自己的生活——不过她在系列故事后期中的所作所为完全则又是另一回事。

Also, when you're revising for tests, it's doubly important that you study actively, like if you're just passively going through your notes and textbooks, you're wasting a lot of precious time.

另外，当你为考试复习时，积极学习更是加倍重要，你如果只是被动地翻笔记和课本，你浪费很多宝贵的时间。

Now when it comes to the voice between active and passive, the active voice is most commonly used with this tone, because it doesn't require writers to sound more professional.

当说到主动和被动语态时，主动语态最常跟这种语气搭配，因为不要求作者听起来很专业。

The beauty of this choice, though, is that once you've made it, you can turn off your thinking and let yourself be carried by the forward surge of what is obviously a significant movement.

这个选项的好处在于，一旦加入了某个组织，你便永远不需要在思考了，你只需要任凭自己被前进的浪潮带动着，被动参与即可。

There are two kinds of sleep, active sleep and passive sleep. The passive sleep gives our body the rest that is needed, and prepares us for active sleep in which dreaming occurs.

主动睡眠和被动睡眠。被动睡眠可以让我们的身体得到所需要的休息，并且为我们进入主动睡眠做好准备。做梦就是在主动睡眠阶段。