He calls it captainitis because, he says, "crew members of multi-pilot aircraft exhibit a sometimes deadly passivity when the flight captain makes a clearly wrong-headed decision".

他称其为“机长综合症”，他说是因为“当机长做出一个明显错误的决定时，有多个飞行员的飞机上的机组人员有时会表现出致命的被动性”。

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It is a state of tremendous passivity, receptivity.

它是一种巨大的被动、接受的状态。

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But that same sense of irony becomes dangerous when it justifies passivity.

但是，当这讽刺意味成为被动和消极的理由的时候，就变成一件危险的事了。

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There's a danger, I think, that endless tolerance leads to intellectual passivity and the kind of uncritical acceptance of all points of view.

这会是一场危机，无止境的容忍会导致理智的被动,及无批判能力地,接受所有的观点。

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"This is a significant and dramatic indicator of the Obama administration's passivity, " said Sen.

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In recent years, corporate governance advocates have pushed for reforms to combat this passivity.

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However, President Obama learnt the hard way that dull passivity hardly goes down well either.

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