1. He calls it captainitis because, he says, "crew members of multi-pilot aircraft exhibit a sometimes deadly passivity when the flight captain makes a clearly wrong-headed decision". 他称其为“机长综合症”，他说是因为“当机长做出一个明显错误的决定时，有多个飞行员的飞机上的机组人员有时会表现出致命的被动性”。
2. We must transform passivity into initiative. 我们变被动为主动。
3. For my part, I deplored his passivity on Syria. 在这方面，我强烈反对他在叙利亚问题上的被动。
4. Yet a destructive passivity has overtaken our discourse. 然而，一种破坏性的被动占据了我们的话语。
5. So apparently the passivity the inertia can be explained. 这么一来惯性的被动状态就能说得通了。
