First, most people do not realise that there are strong commercial agendas at work to keep them in passive consumption mode.

首先，大多数人没有意识到强大的商业议程正在起作用，让他们处于被动消费模式中。

A return to narrative in the classroom - to passive consumption instead of active critical engagement - is more likely to be a recipe for boredom and disaffection.

在课堂上对于叙事的回归——以消极被动的接受替代积极深入的参与——更像是无聊与厌倦的催化剂。

In the past, information consumption was overwhelmingly passive, with telephone being the only interactive medium.

在过去，绝大多数的信息消费是被动的，以电话互动的唯一媒介。

In the past information consumption was largely passive, leaving aside the telephone.

如果不考虑电话，过去的信息使用是非常被动的。

While, at the same time, after luxury consumption exceeds a certain extent, its passive function would obviously emerge.

但与此同时，当奢侈消费超出了一定限度后其消极作用就将明显地表现出来。

Passive cooling is a building design approach that focuses on heat gain control and heat dissipation in a building, in order to improve the indoor thermal comfort with low or nil energy consumption.

无动力制冷是一个建筑设计的新方式，设计师们更多的关注热量的吸收控制和热量的损耗，以保证室内的温度宜人和能源的零消耗。

The passive type active radio frequency identification has small electricity consumption, long wake-up distance and low cost.

本发明被动式有源电子标签消耗电能少，唤醒距离远，成本低廉。