冷眼旁观 meaning in English
look coldly from the sidelines at …; look on as a disinterested by-stander; look on coldly as a bystander; look on indifferently; look on unconcerned; look on with a cold eye; see it from the side; stand aloof and look on with cold indifference; take a detached point of view; take the attitude of a cold onlooker; watch indifferently [calmly]; 这种小资产阶级个人主义者对人民的事业总是抱着冷眼旁观的态度。such petty-bourgeois individualists always look coldly from the side-lines at the people's cause
Examples
- We are caught between the ignorant and the cynical .
我们夹在无知的和冷眼旁观的这两种人中间。 - Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis person folded in her hand .
命运之神把我们的剧中人握在她的手里，正冷眼旁观呢。 - But i have often observed that you low-country bodies have no clear ideas of what's right and wrong .
我时常冷眼旁观，觉得你们这些低地人根本分不清什么是“是”，什么是“非”。 - He shouted, struggled, pleaded with his neighbours to help him, but they looked on in a silent group outside the door .
他叫唤着，挣扎着，乞求邻人来搭救，可是他们只是在门外冷眼旁观。 - Father hercog, the businessman, musing at these aliens of vice and brutality, police and barbarous obese women, stood among such tables .
老赫索格这个生意人，冷眼旁观着这些罪恶残忍的外国佬、警察和粗俗的胖女人，站在也是这样的桌子中间。