Like two old girlfriends catching up, they ignored onlookers, hugged and laughed.
(By Krissah Thompson, The Washington Post)
Even as Chinese students spoke to Sky News about the abuse they have been getting, they were shouted at by onlookers
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A woman stabbed another woman in the neck at Art Basel in Miami, but some onlookers wondered if it was part of the show.
Won't you please stop making such a private spectacle of yourself.
Getting Your Kicks on Television
By SETH SCHIESEL
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has emerged from almost complete disrepute to become perhaps the fastest-growing spectator sport in America.
catch up with
PHRASAL VERB
- 1Succeed in reaching a person who is ahead of one.‘you go with Stasia and Katie, and I'll catch up with you’
- 2Talk to (someone) whom one has not seen for some time in order to find out what they have been doing.‘it's a chance to catch up with old friends’
- 3Begin to have a damaging effect on.‘the physical exertions began to catch up with Sue’
spectator
(spĕk'tā'tər)
An observer of an event.
Someone who observes: beholder, bystander, looker-on, observer, onlooker, watcher. Seeawareness/unawareness, see/not see.
a person who watches an activity, especially a sports event, without taking part:
They won 4-0 in front of over 40 000 cheering spectators.
n. - 觀眾, 旁觀者, 目擊者
━━ n. 見物人; 目撃者; 傍観者.
The very reason why art is finer when it shows rather than tells is that comprehension is then immediate, not discursive. Ideally, the spectator must absorb - in order to be absorbed; and this means that the critic should shut up until he is wanted.
Clio and the doctors: psycho-history, quanto-history, & history by J. Barzun
spectator sport noun [C]
a sport which people go to watch:
Football is certainly the biggest spectator sport in Britain.
make a spectacle of yourself
to do something that makes you look stupid and attracts other people's attention:
I wasn't going to make a spectacle of myself just to give you a laugh!
to reach someone in front of you by going faster than them:
I ran after her and managed to catch up with her.
UK Go on to the shops without me, I'll catch you up.
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