And,he says the worst thing is that he does not even know if the investigation is active.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

The part of their brain that could control certain behaviors is just not active yet.

控制特定行为的大脑区域,还未曾被激活

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's a gene that allows you to deliver a drug that's not active but the gene causes that active - that inactive drug to be converted into an active form that kills the cell.

这一方法利用该基因激活,另一种已经导入细胞的非活性药物,来杀死肿瘤细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The second is that you do not take active steps to prevent it.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

It's as if "thinking nothing" is not a passive activity, but an active one.

好像“脑子里一片空白“,不是一种被动行为，而是主动的似的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Clinton said Aung San Suu Kyi "has every right" to resume an active role in politics and that her future role would be something the Burmese people, and not the United States, would have to decide.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

We are invited to be not merely passive onlookers of this conversation, but active participants in that dialogue that takes place in this book over the course of a single evening.

我们不仅受邀,作为这场会谈的被动旁观者，更受邀参与进行中的对谈,时间就在那一晚,内容是本书。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

These searches are the product of evidence that has been gathered in the investigation since the attempted Times Square bombing and do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or active plot against the United States."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

The second one, I guess, involves an active choice of pushing a person down which I guess that person himself would otherwise not have been involved in the situation at all.

我认为第二种情况，牵涉到主动选择推人,而被推的这个人,本来跟这事件一点关系都没有。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

For instance, bronze is allocated to different places for the manufacture of arrowheads or swords, with a note telling how many smiths in each place are active and how many are not.

举个例子,青铜分配到,不同地方用于制造箭头,或者刀剑,然而每个地方能劳动,和不能劳动的铁匠数目都有记录

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And with respect to securities selection, you want to consider your skills and you want to consider the efficiency of markets when you're making your decisions as to whether or not to pursue passive management or active management.

证券选择方面,要考虑自身能力与市场有效性,从而决定,是采用被动型管理,还是主动型管理

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Learn the accomplishments of active life, take for your models not those people who spend their time on these petty quibbles but those who have a good livelihood and reputation and many other blessings."

学个谋生的一技之长，别学那些满嘴谬论的人,要学那些生活富足，声名显赫及福泽深厚的人“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And its opposition seems to me to be all together noble for know well men of Athens if I had long ago attempted to be politically active I would long ago have perished and I would benefited neither you nor myself. Now do not be vexed with me when I speak the truth.

而这样的违背在我看起来很高尚,因为可以彻底了解雅典人,如果很早之前,就试图活跃于政治的话,我早就没命了,也就无法造福你们或我自己,不要因为我说出真相而恼火。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选