This means that active learners raise questions on information that they read and hear, while passive learners accept both the printed page and the words of their professors as "truth".

这意味着主动学习者会对他们所读到和听到的信息提出问题，而被动学习者则会将书本和教授的话都视为“真理”。

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Earn Every Dollar He Makes at His Day Job - Two words: Passive Income.

只顾着在日常工作中挣钱——两个词：额外收入。

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Along with advice about the passive voice and keeping your writing in the same verb tense is this often-quoted axiom: omit needless words.

和在写作中对被动语态的建议及要保持时态一致一样被经常引用的还有：删掉多余的单词。

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Stop and think about these terms, and you have to agree that words aren't merely passive instruments of expression.

FORBES: Sidelines

Words from the mouth of a passive-aggressive manager cannot be trusted as they will always tell the CEO what they want to hear, and they will always paint the picture of having everything perfectly under control.

FORBES: Passive-Aggressive Behavior Will Destroy a Company's Culture

Yet these words also seem a bit weaselly, too passive by half.

ECONOMIST: A moral dilemma interrupts Warren Buffett's love-in