They tried to achieve their aims by passive resistance.
他们试图通过非暴力抵抗达到他们的目的。
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passive resistance• But passive resistance doesn't work.• There was great resentment, and considerablepassive resistance.• He might have been, like Gandhi, an apostle of passive resistance.• The Magdalen Collegeaffair, for example, provides a classic example of passive resistance.• Nor could Edna forgive Jane her offensivepassive resistance.• Within the classroom too teachers have to live with an active or passive resistance to their best efforts.• Open negativism turns into stonypassive resistance.• The firm and repeatedinstruction of the strike organisers was that passive resistancealone was to be used.