Inactive

(adj.) not active physically or mentally; 'illness forced him to live an inactive life'; 'dreamy and inactive by nature' .

(adj.) not engaged in full-time work; 'inactive reserve'; 'an inactive member' .

(adj.) lacking activity; lying idle or unused; 'an inactive mine'; 'inactive accounts'; 'inactive machinery' .

(adj.) (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly .

(adj.) not exerting influence or change .

(adj.) not in physical motion; 'the inertia of an object at rest' .

(adj.) (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert; 'desired amounts of inactive chlorine' .

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• Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• My impatience to reach the church was so great that I could not remain inactive in the cottage while the clerk lit the lantern again. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Wild yeast settles on the skin of grapes and apples, but since it does not have access to the fruit juices within, it remains inactive very much as a seed does before it is planted. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Not to stay here inactive, I am glad to say, but, of course, to walk over to the Hollow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• During these eight years my life was uniform: but not unhappy, because it was not inactive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Mrs. Reed's hands still lay on her work inactive: her eye of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• An entrance into the east end of the city was now secured, and the houses protected our troops so long as they were inactive. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He was active and observing, I dreamy and inactive. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The horror of remaining inactive all that time was more than I could face. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• As long as inactive the pencil made a straight line. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Racemic acid, however, which is identical with tartaric acid in i ts chemical constituents, is optically inactive, rotating the plane of polarized light n either to the right nor the left. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• When link C D is drawn up so that pin E is in the bottom of the slot, the eccentric A is active and B inactive, and as A has an opposite throw to B, the action of the valve is reversed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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