"It's a very incorrect assumption that people with disabilities are in their community sitting around passively waiting for something good to happen.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

Frost is writing against the Romantic idea that poetry is written in repose, received passively as inspiration.

弗罗斯特不是浪漫主义这一派,浪漫主义是休闲时写的诗歌，被动地作为灵感接受。

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It is a product that is passively assimilated by the individual."

它是个人被动接受的“

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There's no price per share that you can observe and the banks can't do anything except passively receive the dividend.

这里没有可以观察到的每股价格,这些银行也不能做任何事,除了被动地接受股利。

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