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词汇 passerby
释义 passerby
noun[ C ]
(alsopasser-by)us/ˈpæs·ərˈbɑɪ/pluralpassersbyus/ˈpæs·ərzˈbɑɪ/
someone who is going past a particular place:
A passer-by saw smoke and called the fire department.

Examples of passerby


passerby
A surgeon who aids a passerby in an emergency is prosecuted under it.
One almost waits for the film to light on a particular passerby and follow her or him till a story ensues.
Unfocused interaction refers to the management of mere copresence, such as a momentary glance toward a passerby.
They are quite discreet and to the passerby would not cause offence.
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Hansard archive

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It would be a pretty useless site if it did not catch the eye of the passerby.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
To the passerby and to residents on main roads, the roar is far from satisfying.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
In the magistrates' court the inspector agreed that it might have looked to a passerby as if he was mishandling the boy.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
One can call to mind an extreme case, when a bottle was thrown out of a motor car and seriously injured an innocent passerby.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Every passerby joined in the pursuit, went for the attackers and when they were cornered a taxi man, an unarmed citizen, went in and arrested them.
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Hansard archive

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He learns from a passerby that the apartment building had been constructed three years previously.
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Wikipedia

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Two bodyguards and a passerby were hurt in that incident, and the car was severely damaged.
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The singing mechanism was originally activated by a motion sensor and was originally intended to startle a passerby.
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Wikipedia

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Proximity sensors can cause false alarms in parking lots when a passerby is entering or exiting their vehicle parked next to the armed car.
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The name was taken from the invective of a hostile passerby during a demonstration.
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He came in disguised as a postman, but an alert passerby foiled the crime.
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Wikipedia

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