| 词汇 | passers-by |
| 释义 | passers-by plural ofpasser-by Examples of passers-bypassers-by The first of these strategies is transparency: at ground-level, three out of four elevations are fullyglazed so as to let passers-by view interior activity. To entertain passers-by, a musician might as well keep the groove going while practising lyrical improvisation and melodic embellishment. They are all neutral and anonymous places where people do not really meet each other but remain strictly passengers or passers-by. Numerous pigeons fed on cereals scattered by passers-by. Most important, railroads and passers-by had the same duties. He flies his plane over the island and drops the cubes near passers-by. After he finished with the woman, he charged the passers-by like crazy: he hit them, torn up their clothes, and broke their spectacles. Take the case of some spontaneous and transitory collective action, such as the one of a couple of passers-by joining their forces in order to push a car. They were shameless as if the many passers-by did not exist. The openings extend the ambiance of an exhibition to passers-by. Twenty-six also reported having given produce away to friends, relatives, other selfharvesters and passers-by as a gift. Additional precision is left to contextual clues: the presence of other stores, the flow of traffic, the class of vehicles, and the looks and loads of passers-by. The performers, as street clowns and acrobats, climbed the fountains and street lamps; curious passers-by joined the procession; the audience multiplied; walking turned into running and finally into a stampede. I used to get complaints about blocking the pavements, about shouting obscene remarks at unoffending passers-by, and about fouling the neighbourhood in various nasty ways. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The driver was apprehended after a chase, but called on passers-by for help and again escaped in the struggle which followed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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