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looker-on

/look-er-on, -awn/US // ˌlʊk ərˈɒn, -ˈɔn //

观望者,观察者,看门人,看客

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural look·ers-on.

    • : a person who looks on; onlooker; witness; spectator.

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Examples

  • Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.

  • It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.

  • Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?

  • I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.

  • Kingston-on-Thames is still provincial in appearance, though now the centre of a great growth of modern suburbs.

  • Besides the districts mentioned, tobacco is grown largely in that of Frankfort-on-the Oder.

  • Madame Malmaison had always been a little proud of the beauty and grace and sweetness of her fitter-on.

  • Berwick-on-Tweed lies partly in England and partly in Scotland, the river which runs through it forming the boundary line.