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onlookers

/on-look-er, awn-/US // ˈɒnˌlʊk ər, ˈɔn- //UK // (ˈɒnˌlʊkə) //

旁观者,旁观者清,旁观的人,围观者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : spectator; observer; witness.

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Examples

  • We’d all like to be the one that dazzles onlookers by nailing everything on the first try—but you never know who might be even more impressed by a determined second shot.

  • Other onlookers, including me, say if parents want schools that demanding, they should be allowed to have them.

  • The driver staggers on through the street, grabbing onlookers, all of whom die in moments.

  • That led reporters and interested onlookers to assume results were final.

  • The Atlantic’s proposition may be at odds with this trend, but industry onlookers applaud it for taking a longer-term view.

  • The paper reports: “It was utterly shocking to watch,” said one onlooker.

  • Everyone has fallen into the predictable roles of condemner, (rare and tentative) defender, and gleeful onlooker.

  • She was wearing an "incredibly low-cut dress," one onlooker said.

  • There can hardly have been an onlooker who would not have wanted to go up to the young man and shake his hand.

  • Asked one onlooker motioning toward the crush of people blockading every clothes rack.

  • He looked into the eyes of great Osiris,… and that part of him that ever watched—the great Onlooker—smiled.

  • Tchernitchev delayed his departure, remaining merely as an onlooker, to give the Prussians the support of his presence.

  • But the performance that stopped every heart and made every onlooker hold his breath was the parachute jumps.

  • By nightfall the place was the scene of great activity, and to an onlooker produced a singular effect.

  • It is usually the onlooker who sees that, just as a critic sees more in a picture than the painter ever put there.