If you describe someone as passive, you mean that they do not take action but instead let things happen to them.
His passive attitude made things easier for me.
他的顺从态度使我办起事来容易多了。
Even passive acceptance of the regime was a kind of collaboration.
即便被动接受该政权也是一种通敌。
A passive activity involves watching, looking at, or listening to things rather than doing things.
They want less passive ways of filling their time.
他们需要更为积极的方式来打发时间。
Passive resistance involves showing opposition to the people in power in your country by not cooperating with them and protesting in nonviolent ways.
They made it clear that they would only exercise passive resistance in the event of a military takeover.
他们声明假若发生军事接管,他们只采取非暴力抵抗行动。
a policy of passive resistance or peaceful demonstration for political purposes.
一项有政治目的的非暴力抵抗或和平示威政策。
In grammar, the passive or the passive voice is formed using 'be' and the past participle of a verb. The subject of a passive clause does not perform the action expressed by the verb but is affected by it. For example, in 'He's been murdered', the verb is in the passive. Compare active.