passive failure

基本解释

This adapter is passive during normal operation, and waits for a failure to occur.
在常规操作中，该适配器是被动的，并一直等待发生故障。
Finally, according to passive failure theory, the stress slate in plastic soil zone outside cluster of piles is presented.
同时还用被动破坏理论阐述了群桩外部塑性区土中的应力状态。
For democracy to succeed, citizens must be active, not passive, because they know that the success or failure of the government is their responsibility, and no one else's.
要使民主获得成功，公民必须积极主动而不是消极被动，因为他们知道，政府的成败取决于自己，责无旁贷。
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