精一杯 usage in this sentence


> 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?

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Edit.Added link to the original sentence.




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.




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.

