sit by
英 [sɪt baɪ]
美 [sɪt baɪ]
(对错误或违法的事情)坐视不理,作壁上观
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB (对错误或违法的事情)坐视不理,作壁上观
If yousit bywhile something wrong or illegal is happening, you allow it to happen and do not do anything about it.- We can't just sit by and watch you throw your life away...
我们不能眼睁睁地看着你毁掉自己的生活。 - The use of ozone-depleting chemicals grew dramatically and the government sat idly by.
消耗臭氧的化学物质的使用急剧增多,政府却坐视不理。
- We can't just sit by and watch you throw your life away...
英英释义
verb
- be inactive or indifferent while something is happening
- Don't just sit by while your rights are violated!
双语例句
- I love to sit by the window.
我喜欢坐在靠窗口的座位。 - If I were lucky enough to sit by you, I would have talked to you.
如果我有幸坐在你旁边,我一定会和你说话的。 - I could not see my father weep, and sit by, careless.
我不能坐视我的父亲流泪而无动于衷。 - Come here and sit by me.
到这儿来,坐在我旁边。 - And I came up and asked to sit by you.
而我走过来,要求坐在你旁边。 - All day long to sit by the door?
整天坐在门口? - I prefer to sit by the window.
我念坐正在靠窗位置。 - At this point a man left his seat across the room and come to sit by her.
正在这时坐在屋子另一头的一个男人离开自己的座位,走过来坐在她身旁。 - On a cold evening it is pleasant to sit by the fire.
在寒冷的夜晚坐在炉火旁边很舒服。 - You watch the Olympics by day and sit by the computer by night.
你白天看奥运,晚上就坐在电脑旁。