- 1旁觀者、圍觀的人
An onlooker is someone who watches something happen and does not take part. A crowd around a street musician, people standing at a fire, neighbours watching an argument in the road — those people are onlookers.
The word is fairly neutral. It does not praise you and it does not attack you; it just says you were looking, not doing. Though actually, it can feel a little cool, as if you stayed outside on purpose. A is simply there. An onlooker is there and watching. A spectator has usually come to watch a show or a game; an onlooker often just stops because something is going on.
It is everyday English, not fancy, not slang.
組成From on + look + -er, probably from the verb look on.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
onlookernoun/ˈɒnlʊkə/
- 1
A spectator; someone looks on or watches, without becoming involved or participating.
- I wasn’t involved in the fight; I was only an onlooker.
- When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。