neighborhood watch
邻里监督,邻里守望,邻里监视,邻里守望者
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- : a neighborhood surveillance program or group in which residents keep watch over one another's houses, patrol the streets, etc., in an attempt to prevent crime.
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At the time, Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch volunteer who called police after spotting Martin.
As a former detainee in a re-education camp, she was not officially permitted to travel to other areas of town without explicit permission from both her neighborhood watch unit and the Public Security Bureau.
Then he saw a note on his community WhatsApp group urging neighbors to join a sort of neighborhood watch channel on Zello, a “walkie-talkie” app that is fast becoming a tool for protest communication.
Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
I watch every episode alone on my couch and I just sit there and laugh, and laugh.
Angry Birds at its simplest was the same way, though you wanted to watch things collapse and explode.
A car mechanic who goes by the name “Big Perm” said he noticed a change in the neighborhood.
I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.
And he was inclined to believe that it was Grandfather Mole that was to blame for the scarcity of worms in the neighborhood.
He produced a watch and studied it frowningly, then dismissed us and the recital of our troubles with a ponderous gesture.
He is a hypochondriac now and would keep a close watch on his heir's health and habits; you may be sure of that.
He heard Mohammedans alluding to a Brahmin as a leader—so might a wolf and a snake make common alliance against a watch dog.