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单词 onlooker
释义
onlooker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɒnˌlʊk.ər/us
/ˈɑːnˌlʊk.ɚ/
someone whowatchessomething that ishappeningin apublicplacebut is notinvolvedin it:
旁观者，围观者
Acrowdofcuriousonlookerssoongatheredtoseewhat washappening.很快聚拢了一群好奇的围观者看发生了什么事。
Synonym
looker-on
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
an audience
  • audienceThe audience went wild after every song she sang.
  • viewerThe show attracts millions of viewers every week.
  • listenerListeners tune in regularly for his cheery banter.
  • crowdThose New Yorkers can be a tough crowd to please.
  • houseIt's a full house tonight.
  • spectatorThe spectators cheered when the balloon went up.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Audiences and spectators
  • audience
  • behind closed doorsidiom
  • bums on seatsidiom
  • bystander
  • captive audience
  • closed
  • fan
  • fan park
  • fly
  • fly on the wallidiom
  • flâneur
  • goer
  • interobserver
  • observer
  • pep rally
  • seat
  • secondary ticketing
  • superfan
  • supporter
  • viewer
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(Definition ofonlookerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

onlooker| American Dictionary

onlooker
noun[C]
us
/ˈɔnˌlʊk·ər,ˈɑn-/
someone whowatchessomethinghappeningbut is notinvolvedin it:
Thebuildingwasdemolishedbefore acrowdofnearly200 onlookers.
(Definition ofonlookerfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofonlooker

onlooker
To theonlooker, nothing remotely related to a work of art or performance is there - no evident intrusion, no tangible presence, no action either.
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The "problem" to which facial expression of pain is suggested as a solution is twofold, concerning benefits to the signaller and to theonlooker.
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But they convey that sense of frustration, despair and sheer disbelief all onlookers felt at different times and for different reasons.
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The demon was then instructed to overturn a basin of water some distance away, in order to prove to onlookers that it had indeed left.
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When wise principles are perceived by onlookers specifically in connection with a person's lifetime, the effect on recipients can be striking.
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Three of the onlookers reveal their teeth in mild amusement.
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Several onlookers, boys and girls, bare their teeth in amusement.
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A railway never had agency but its promoters, colonial authorities, managers and workers did have agency-as do passengers and onlookers.
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To onlookers, the result is a relatively inward-looking system populated by elites.
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It ensures that students are not just passive onlookers at products; they are actively engaged in the analytical processes being explored.
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As these activities took place outside, the music attracted onlookers from the neighbourhood.
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Naturally what we recorded more than anything else was the conversation of curious onlookers.
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It is the product of a fascinatedonlookerrather than a critical participant.
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A bystander, perhaps a bookie, takes the helpless man's money, as other onlookers jeer.
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As glances are held and exchanged, a third party traces back the gaze to its originalonlooker.
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