sit by

英 [sɪt baɪ]

美 [sɪt baɪ]

（对错误或违法的事情）坐视不理，作壁上观

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (对错误或违法的事情)坐视不理，作壁上观
  If yousit bywhile something wrong or illegal is happening, you allow it to happen and do not do anything about it.
  1. We can't just sit by and watch you throw your life away...
     我们不能眼睁睁地看着你毁掉自己的生活。
  2. The use of ozone-depleting chemicals grew dramatically and the government sat idly by.
     消耗臭氧的化学物质的使用急剧增多，政府却坐视不理。

英英释义

verb

• be inactive or indifferent while something is happening
  1. Don't just sit by while your rights are violated!
  Synonym:sit back

双语例句

• After supper, I sit by the fire.
  晚饭后，我坐在火边。
• I like to sit by the window so that I can enjoy the landscape outside.
  我喜欢坐在窗口的座位以便可以欣赏到外的景色。
• And I came up and asked to sit by you.
  而我走过来，要求坐在你旁边。
• Can we sit by a window?
  我们可不可以坐靠窗的位子？
• Come here and sit by me.
  到这儿来，坐在我旁边。
• All day long to sit by the door?
  整天坐在门口？
• I want to sit by the emergency exit.
  我想坐在机上安全出口处。
• I sit by the form in the coffin.
  我坐在你的灵柩旁等。
• If I were lucky enough to sit by you, I would have talked to you.
  如果我有幸坐在你旁边，我一定会和你说话的。
• I could not see my father weep, and sit by, careless.
  我不能坐视我的父亲流泪而无动于衷。