Verbs come in two types, active and passive.

动词有两种语态，主动式和被动式。

Can you identify the active and passive forms?

你能找出主动形式和被动形式吗？

You just heard a mixture of active and passive structures.

你们刚才听到的是主动和被动结构的混合。

You might have heard me talking about active and passive language skills before.

你可能听过我以前讲的主动和被动语言技能。

We can break apart the verbs into two general groups: active and passive forms.

我们可以将动词分为两大类：主动形式和被动形式。

Sometimes mixing active and passive verbs let us keep the same subject, so it sounds better.

有时把主动动词和被动动词混在一起，可以让我们保持相同的主语，这样听起来会更好。

So far, we have explored active and passive verbs at the sentence level.

到目前为止，我们已经在句子层面探讨了主动动词和被动动词。

The language surrounding international conflicts often contains a mixture of active and passive structures.

围绕国际冲突的语言往往包含主动和被动结构的混合使用。

The same idea — the mixing of active and passive forms — holds true in many other places in the report.

同样的概念——主动形式和被动形式的混合——在报告的许多其他地方也适用。

So we got a mixture of active and passive here.

所以我们在这里混合了主动和被动。

Don't forget to practice these active and passive sentences.

不要忘记练习这些主动和被动的句子。

We may call these two active and passive understanding respectively.

我们可以将这两种理解分别称为主动理解和被动理解。

The difference -- active and passive -- we will look at that in a moment.

区别——主动和被动——我们稍后会讨论。

And finally: Someone on YouTube asked me to explain active and passive verbs.

最后：YouTube 上有人让我解释主动动词和被动动词。

And digestion allows for the absorption of those nutrients as they pass from the small intestine into the blood, by both active and passive transport.

消化允许吸收这些营养物质，当它们从小肠进入血液时，通过主动和被动运输。

So, the milliner, that's someone who makes hats, made this hat last year, and Someone asked me to explain active and passive verbs.

所以，milliner， 就是做帽子的人，去年做了这顶帽子， 有人让我解释主动动词和被动动词。

Now when it comes to the voice between active and passive, the active voice is most commonly used with this tone, because it doesn't require writers to sound more professional.

当说到主动和被动语态时，主动语态最常跟这种语气搭配，因为它不要求作者听起来很专业。

Ultimately, active and passive investing aren't mutually exclusive— many investment strategies have elements of each, for example, choosing stocks actively but holding them for the long term as passive investing advises.

最终，主动投资和被动投资并不相互排斥——许多投资策略都有各自的要素，例如，主动选择股票， 但按照被动投资的建议长期持有。