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passerby

/pas-er-bahy, -bahy, pah-ser-/US // ˈpæs ərˈbaɪ, -ˌbaɪ, ˈpɑ sər- //

路人,路人甲,过路人,途人

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n.名词 noun
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    plural pass·ers·by [pas-erz-bahy, -bahy, pah-serz-], /ˈpæs ərzˈbaɪ, -ˌbaɪ, ˈpɑ sərz-/,

    • : a person passing by.

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Examples

  • The video, shot by a passerby, begins after Franklin is supposed to be dead.

  • I only hope some curious passerby picked it up from whatever park bench or lobby sofa or cafe table I left it on, read it and set it back out into the wilds.

  • "You're a bunch of killers," a passerby told cops standing sentry there, according to one police source.

  • Because while calling a passerby “sexy” may be uncouth, it shouldn't be illegal.

  • She had been choked unconscious and very likely would have died had a passerby not scared away her attacker.

  • I was in a production of Oliver Twist and I was a passerby, and I had five words: “Coming down the street there!”

  • A passerby found her body last week, half hidden, half burned, in the Bois de Boulogne on the outskirts of Paris.

  • On the way home Susanna could scarcely refrain from calling out to every passerby some hint of their good fortune.

  • Frank could see that the door was ajar, as though inviting the passerby to enter without the formality of knocking.

  • They take the boy to Paris, employ a passerby—a man of their own class, no doubt—for a few francs, to deliver him at your door.

  • The rhododendron, with its brilliant colouring, is everywhere, and the little forget-me-not nods to every passerby.

  • The "sport" was soon stopped, however, by a passerby, who administered a rebuke that could hardly be forgotten.