坐视不救
zuò​shì​bù​jiù

to sit back and watch

  • created sense approved 坐视不救/坐視不救 · zuò​shì​bù​jiù · to sit back and watch — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    坐视不救 / 坐視不救

    zuò​shì​bù​jiù

    to sit back and watch

    To sit by and watch without going to the rescue; to look on with indifference when others are in trouble.in trouble

    zuò​shì​bú​jiù

    坐视 (literal) → 坐视/坐視 · zuò​shì · to sit by and watch 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 救 (literal) → 救 · jiù · to save

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense