You can be passive if it isn't any good but if you are more active, you may find things.

如果没有什么好处，你们可以被动,但是如果你们更主动，会发现些什么。

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Greyhounds are supposed to be more passive and gentle than pit bulls.

我们觉得灵缇犬比斗牛犬,更温驯。

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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。

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You can do better, you can do it through response You've got to sort of disabuse yourself of the problems in response which is to be think of yourself as just a passive reciever.

你们可以通过反应来得出更好的研究成果,在反应上你们要纠正自己,不要把自己当成,一个被动的接收者。

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Although it is easy to remember that later in the dialogue most of their contribution seems to be " of the form of "Yes Socrates, no Socrates," they seem to be rather passive interlocutors.

但很明显地,他们在稍后对话中的,绝大部份贡献似乎是反复的,“Yes，苏格拉底，“、，“No，苏格拉底“,他们是相对被动的对话者。

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