Word · 単語
傍観
Reading ぼうかん
looking on
looking on · standing by and watching · sitting back and watching · remaining a spectator
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例文 · examples
世間はいつまでこれらの暴虐を傍観し続けるのか。
How long can the world stand by and watch these atrocities?
出席者が少なくなりつづけ、実際にやってきた人も無関心に傍観していた。
Attendance had been falling off and such people as did come sat about indifferently.
彼はただ傍観するだけでそのけんかを止めなかった。
He just looked on and didn't stop the quarrel.