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> とても受動的な感じで、どんな場面でも「教えてもらう」という姿勢が精一杯だったと思います。

I think that [Please teach me] is in every occasion an attitude filled with
passivity.

Is it correct?

Link:<http://ameblo.jp/c-partners/entry-10009534016.html>

Edit.Added link to the original sentence.
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精一杯 usage in this sentence
In the previous sentences, the author is describing that they didn't really
see much of a difference between 教わる and 学ぶ when they were in school (or even
when they first entered the work force), and that it is likely because they
didn't like studying. Setting aside the 「とても受動的な感じで、」 clause for a second, the
author is referring to themselves, and saying:

> Taking on an attitude of "I will learn", no matter the situation, was quite
> a handful for me, I think.

This "quite a handful" is one way of translating 精一杯 that fits the context.
Others that might work here is "(was) all that I could manage", "(was) at the
limits of my ability", "required my best effort", etc. **In other words, 精一杯
means that it was possible, but difficult, taking "everything" the author
had** (from the author's own point of view, at that particular point of time).

The とても受動的な感じで part seems to be a stumbling point in your translation, and I'm
not sure either, so take the rest of this answer with a grain of salt. で is
acting conjunctively (with the later だった, as 思う seems unlikely) to add "in a
passive manner/with a feeling of passivity". It seems the author is describing
their manner/attitude 姿勢 with respect to learning. From later sentences it
appears the author felt that "actively learning" was too much trouble but they
might as well make the best of opportunities to learn when they're already
forced to be there. So a full but somewhat loose translation might be:

> Taking on an attitude of "I will (at least) learn (in this situation)" when
> put in situations (where it is asked of me) was (already) quite a handful
> for me, I think. (So learning proactively outside such passively accepted
> situations was beyond me, at that time).

I struggled to find a way to use the direct translation "passive", but it
seems difficult to capture the intended "feel" of the sentence that way.

* * *

[This dictionary entry for
精一杯](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/120966/meaning/m0u/%E7%B2%BE%E4%B8%80%E6%9D%AF/)
says, roughly: "releasing all one's power; at the limits of one's power; to
the best of their ability". There is both a component of "doing one's best",
and also a component of it being "just barely/almost not enough".
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精一杯 means both "eager / doing one's best" and "at best / all one can do".

> 「教えてもらう」という姿勢が精一杯だった

... is an ambiguous expression which can mean either:

  * one was so "eagerly passive", and did their best in order to be taught (精一杯 = "eagerly". "精一杯に消極的" is a sarcastic expression)
  * all one could do was showing the attitude of "I will learn from you" (精一杯 = "the best one can do")

At first sight, I took this phrase in the first, sarcastic sense, but after
reading the original blog article, I realized that it is clearly used in the
second sense. In the following sentence, she says she even had difficulty
keeping such a passive "teach-it-for-me" attitude.

Examples:

  * 立っているのが精一杯だ。 = 立っているのがやっとだ。  
All I can do is to keep standing.

  * 彼は精一杯立っていた。 = He kept standing with all his might.
  * 彼は立ち上がろうと精一杯だった。 = He was doing his best trying to stand up.
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