Name: 什麼是「被動語態」？ BBC Learning English 來解答！ (What's the passive voice? Ask BBC Learning English)
Uploaded: 2025-11-16T21:01:30.000Z
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情態助動詞 A2

{Can you tell me about the passive voice?}

〔你可以跟我說說被動語態嗎？〕

That was Viviana's question, but we also want to hear yours.

那是 Viviana 的問題，但我們也想聽聽你的問題。

Send us an email to learningenglish@bbc.co.uk.

寄 email 到 learningenglish@bbc.co.uk 給我們吧。

So what we call the passive voice, is where you take the object of an active sentence, "I wrote the letter."

所謂的被動語態，就是把主動句中的受詞拿來變成新的被動句的主詞，例如：「我寫了這封信」。

and you make it the subject of a new passive sentence.

然後把它變成被動語態的新句子。

We're not focusing on the person who wrote the letter; we're focusing on the letter itself.

我們不再關注寫信的人，而是把重點放在信本身。

A lot of formal writing is about actions and often it doesn't matter who does them.

很多正式寫作都在描述動作，而通常誰做的並不重要。

So you're likely to find a lot of passives.

In formal writing, the chemicals are mixed together.

在正式寫作中，「這些化學物質被混合在一起。」

Varying the order in which information appears in a sentence can help make your writing flow better.

調整句子中資訊出現的順序，可以讓你的文章讀起來更順。

We can use the passive to make a sentence link better to the one that comes before it,

我們可以用被動語態讓句子與前一句連接得更自然，

and this can help make your paragraphs clearer.

「我們的導覽由當地專家帶領。」

Sometimes it doesn't matter who the subject is, and sometimes, we just don't know who they are.

有時候句子的主詞不重要，有時候我們根本不知道是誰。

Sometimes people use the passive to hide the fact they've been dishonest.

有時候，人們會用被動語態來隱瞞自己做了壞事。

No, I'm afraid the sweets have all been eaten, so you can't have any.

「唉，糖果全都被吃完了，所以你不能吃了。」

它被稱為「語態」，不是「時態」。

And that's important because we can actually use it in lots of different tenses to make a passive.

這點很重要，因為我們其實可以在許多不同時態中使用被動語態。

Usually, we use "be" in the appropriate tense and the past participle.

通常，我們會使用適當時態的 be 動詞加上過去分詞。

Now, there are some verbs which we don't use in the passive, intransitive verbs and some state verbs.

現在，有些動詞我們不會用在被動語態中，例如不及物動詞和一些狀態動詞。

You can find more information on the topic below.

你可以在下方找到更多相關資訊。