passivity

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It senses its power is growing and this leads to a posture of great self- restraint, even passivity and reluctance to rock the boat.
它感覺自己實力在日漸增長，這促使其擺出極大的自我克制、甚至是被動的姿態(tài)，不愿改變現(xiàn)狀。
What I started to notice about those newly rare occasions when the TV came back on, aside from their quaintness, was how much TV viewing actually promotes passivity in viewership.
除了有趣特別的節(jié)目，當(dāng)電視回歸生活中，我開始注意到最近極少的情況，就是電視在多大程度上讓觀眾們變得被動了。
While this situation is useful in certain cases because of the total passivity afforded the place-owner and visitor, it severely limits the potential contribution of recommendation technology.
盡管這種情形在某些情況下是有益的，因為它總能被動地提供給網(wǎng)站所有者和訪客一些推薦，但這卻嚴(yán)重限制了推薦技術(shù)的潛能。

There's a danger, I think, that endless tolerance leads to intellectual passivity and the kind of uncritical acceptance of all points of view.
這會是一場危機，無止境的容忍會導(dǎo)致理智的被動,及無批判能力地,接受所有的觀點。
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In recent years, corporate governance advocates have pushed for reforms to combat this passivity.
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The side-effect was to expunge first the liberals and then reduce the moderates to passivity.
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In Mitrovica, for example, NATO's passivity has effectively allowed the Serbs to partition the town.
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