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bystander

/bahy-stan-der/US // ˈbaɪˌstæn dər //UK // (ˈbaɪˌstændə) //

旁观者,旁观者清,旁人,旁听生

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person present but not involved; chance spectator; onlooker.

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Examples

  • We set it up this way because we wanted to be careful not to profit from it or draw unknowing bystanders into our experiment.

  • While the shooters fled the scene, bystanders brought the journalist to a local hospital, and he died the next morning.

  • Plus, bystanders can judge facts only — and he doesn’t have a complete set of the ones governing the video fail, so his putting it all on you is automatically unfounded.

  • A bystander was shot early Sunday in Baileys Crossroads after getting caught in the crossfire of an altercation between people in two vehicles, Fairfax County police said.

  • My colleagues don’t want to discuss the fact that someone might have said a sly comment that everyone heard, but they’re all complicit bystanders.

  • According to police, Frias got into a disagreement with a bystander at the scene.

  • Wahlberg fled from the scene and approached a bystander, Hoa Trinh, also Vietnamese.

  • Video of the horrific episode was captured by a bystander, Ramsey Orta, who then sold it to the New York Daily News.

  • A video of the confrontation shot by a bystander shows Garner surrounded by a group of police officers.

  • A curious bystander wanted to start a conversation with Abdullah.

  • "The innocent bystander usually gets shot in the leg," the boss ripped out, with the brittlest kind of humor.

  • But looking down on Bland's cabin, he reflected that his irritation was rooted in the fact that he did not want to be a bystander.

  • A bystander inquires what has become of the nose of the bust?

  • I asked a bystander where they were going and what was to be done to them, for I did not know at the time that I was near Tyburn.

  • "I did not believe that anything could shake Darcy's nerve, but he certainly played that game ill," said a bystander.