Active

(noun.) a person who is a participating member of an organization; 'the club issues a list of members, both the actives and the retirees'.

(adj.) characterized by energetic activity; 'an active toddler'; 'active as a gazelle'; 'an active man is a man of action' .

(adj.) engaged in full-time work; 'active duty'; 'though past retirement age he is still active in his profession' .

(adj.) full of activity or engaged in continuous activity; 'an active seaport'; 'an active bond market'; 'an active account' .

(adj.) tending to become more severe or wider in scope; 'active tuberculosis' .

(adj.) disposed to take action or effectuate change; 'a director who takes an active interest in corporate operations'; 'an active antagonism'; 'he was active in drawing attention to their grievances' .

(adj.) (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt; 'active volcanos' .

(adj.) (of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting .

(adj.) (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being .

(adj.) expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: 'Hemingway favors active constructions' .

(adj.) exerting influence or producing a change or effect; 'an active ingredient' .

(adj.) in operation; 'keep hope alive'; 'the tradition was still alive'; 'an active tradition' .

(adj.) taking part in an activity; 'an active member of the club'; 'he was politically active'; 'the participating organizations' .

(adj.) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; 'on active duty'; 'the platoon is combat-ready'; 'review the fighting forces' .

切丽录入

• 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.
• All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The object is but a phase of the active end,--continuing the activity successfully. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Yes--yes--the end is not so difficult; if I had only a brain active enough to ferret out the means of attaining it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But his coming for me as he did, with such active, such ready friendship, is enough to prove him one of the worthiest of men. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• These were the opening acts of an active and aggressive career. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The case, however, is different when an animal, during any part of its embryonic career, is active, and has to provide for itself. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Then, when active life is over, let him finally return to philosophy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Uncommonly active. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• All these are active proceedings. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But it was not so; I was the same in strength, in earnest craving for sympathy, in my yearning for active exertion. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Now active exploitation was required. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Yet she must continue in this state of violent active superconsciousness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He always took an active part in politics, but was never a candidate for office, except, I believe, that he was the first Mayor of Georgetown. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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