passive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 被动的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I desire never to use violence, I expect from you, more than all the others, a passive obedience.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vera Lebe-deff's passive disagreement was limited to the shedding of a few solitary tears; to more frequent sitting alone at home, and to a diminished frequency in her visits to the prince's apartments.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She stepped forward, and pressed the passive hand that lay upon the coverlet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was no passive belief, but an active weapon which they flashed at more convenient plac-es of business.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She really was both innocent and corrupt, but a sweet and passive woman.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few had straggled among the conquered columns, where they stalked in sullen discontent; attentive, though, as yet, passive observers of the moving multitude.
-- The politic captain of the Canadas had deemed it wiser to submit to entertain a passive friend, than by any acts of ill-judged severity to convert him into an open enemy.
-- His parting gibes were listened to in a dead, boding silence, and, with these biting words in his mouth, the triumphant Magua passed unmolested into the forest, fol- lowed by his passive captive, and protected by the inviolable laws of Indian hospitality.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a passive feeling capable of being roused for any object, as the vine can grow on any tree; and the wisdom of the world recognises its strength when it urges a girl to marry the man who wants her with the assurance that love will follow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It appeared, inanswer to my inquiries, that nobody had the least idea of theetymology of this terrible verb passive to be gormed; but that theyall regarded it as constituting a most solemn imprecation.
-- 脗路 Never more, oh, God forgive you, Steerforth!to touch that passive hand in love and friendship.
-- He was quite passive now; and when I heard himcrying, the impulse that had been upon me to go down upon myknees, and ask their pardon for the desolation I had caused, andcurse Steerforth, yielded to a better feeling.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There could be no harm in a scheme, a mere passive scheme.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not indifferent, for he told me that he hoped to live to see his gentleman one of the best of gentlemen in a foreign country; he was not disposed to be passive or resigned, as I understood it; but he had no notion of meeting danger half way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A curious passive inattention had such possession of her, that the presence of her little sister in the room did not attract her notice for some time.
-- Even when their eyes had met, and her sister had approached the bed, Louisa lay for minutes looking at her in silence, and suffering her timidly to hold her passive hand, before she asked:'When was I brought to this room?'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because that passive sort of giving himself was so obviously his only real mode of intercourse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there was a passive congeniality between them, besides this active one.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She always felt wicked after it, for the pretty things were seldom necessaries, but then they cost so little, it wasn't worth worrying about, so the trifles increased uncon-sciously, and in the shopping excursions she was no longer a passive looker-on.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The transitions in real life from well-spread boards to death-beds, and from mourning-weeds to holiday garments, are not a whit less startling; only, there, we are busy actors, instead of passive lookers-on, which makes a vast difference.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such trivialities, such praises of wealth, such conventional expression of morals as sifted through this passive creature's mind, fell upon Carrie and for the while confused her.
-- Being of a passive and receptive rather than an active and aggressive nature, Carrie accepted the situation.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, as he stood with an expression of passive amazement on his face, the rapid feet came to the door of the dressing-room and that too was locked.
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