zuò​shì

to sit by and watch

坐视 坐視 zuò​shì
to sit by and watch verb
To sit by and watch without intervening; to look on passively at a situation that one should be concerned with or responsible for.
to sit and watch
To sit and look on; to observe while seated

Frequency

Written text
1.14 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)