Beholder

(n.) One who beholds; a spectator.

整理:塞丽娜

• Fabre, fighting for a particular female who sits by, an apparently unconcerned beholder of the struggle, and then retires with the conqueror. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Here then is a kind of pity reverst, or contrary sensations arising in the beholder, from those which are felt by the person, whom he considers. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• In her movements, in her gaze, she reminded the beholder of the feathered creatures who lived around her home. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Turkish carpets are woven, and floors the world over are carpeted with those rich materials the sight of which would have astonished the ordinary beholder a half century ago. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• This frequent rising of a drowning man from the deep, to sink again, was dreadful to the beholders. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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