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onlooking

/on-look-ing, awn-/US // ˈɒnˌlʊk ɪŋ, ˈɔn- //

俯视,俯瞰,眺望,纵观

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : looking on; observing; perceiving.
    • : looking onward or foreboding.

Examples

  • It all began with a meticulously schemed fake drowning just feet from his onlooking wife in the fast currents of Arkansas’ Little Red River in the winter of 2008.

  • It is exhibiting women with such approaches to nakedness as can have no other design than to breed lust behind the onlooking eyes.

  • Instantly the impulses of a woman flashed through every vein and nerve of that onlooking girl.

  • The gay capital of France remains the center of the stage and retains the interest of the onlooking universe.

  • The three long, dangerously-loaded barges advanced amid the shouts of the onlooking army.

  • We might illustrate by the "Wild West Show" in which the onlooking boy imagines himself an active participant.