单词 | onlooker |
释义 | onlooker (ɒnlʊkəʳ ) Word forms: onlookers countable noun An onlooker is someone who watches an event take place but does not take part in it. A handful of onlookers stand in the field watching. Synonyms: spectator, witness, observer, viewer Collocations: casual onlooker Exceptional horses, and the human characters around them, are what excite the purists and engage the casual onlooker. Times, Sunday Times To a casual onlooker they might have been old friends. Times, Sunday Times A casual onlooker from another planet might well think nothing much had changed. Times, Sunday Times Only the poster, attached to the fencing, today reminds the casual onlooker of the disaster which befell that holiday and plunged her family into the darkness of despair. The Sun When the news throws up these huge ongoing geopolitical stories, pregnant with potentially epoch-defining consequences, the casual onlooker needs some human interest to leaven all the heavy analysis. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 旁观者, 旁观者 Japanese: 傍観者, 傍観者 |
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