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MEANING/意义

旁观

EXAMPLES/列句

旁观者聚集起来围观斗殴。

páng guān zhě jù jí qǐ lái wéi guān dòu ōu

Onlookers formed around to watch the fight.

SL	Character	PinYin	Translation
1.	旁观者	páng guān zhě	observer，spectator
2.	聚集	jù jí	gather，assemble
3.	起来	qǐ lái	(used after verbs to indicate upward movement)
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国难当头，我们怎么能袖手旁观呢？

guó nàn dāng tóu ，wǒ men zěn me néng xiù shǒu páng guān ne ?

Our country is in imminent danger. How can we just look on and do nothing?

SL	Character	PinYin	Translation
1.	我们	wǒ men	we，us
2.	怎么	zěn me	how，why
3.	能	néng	can，be able to
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COMBINATIONS/组合

袖手旁观

xiù shǒu páng guān

put the hands in the sleeves and look on (to have nothing to do with a thing)

当局者迷，旁观者清

dāng jú zhě mí ，páng guān zhě qīng

lookers-on see more than players，the spectators see the game better than the players