旁人
páng rén
Pinyin

Definition

旁人
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páng rén
  1. other people
  2. bystanders
  3. onlookers
  4. outsiders

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

人
rén
  1. 1 man
  2. 2 person
  3. 3 people
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
  5. 5 classifier: 位 wèi
人生
rén shēng
  1. 1 life (one's time on earth)
别人
bié ren
  1. 1 other people
  2. 2 others
  3. 3 other person
女人
nǚ rén
  1. 1 woman
男人
nán rén
  1. 1 a man
  2. 2 a male
  3. 3 men
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一鸣惊人
yī míng jīng rén
  1. 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
三人成虎
sān rén chéng hǔ
  1. 1 three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact
三人行，必有我师
sān rén xíng , bì yǒu wǒ shī
  1. 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
  2. 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三个女人一台戏
sān ge nǚ rén yī tái xì
  1. 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)

Sample Sentences

有很多事情，是当局者迷旁观者清。往往很深的矛盾需要经过旁人的点拨后才能化解。而且经过电视上这样公开调解后，也能让观众对一些事情提高警惕，防范类似的事情发生。
yǒu hěn duō shìqing ，shì dāngjúzhěmí pángguānzhě qīng 。wǎngwǎng hěn shēn de máodùn xūyào jīngguò pángrén de diǎnbō hòu cái néng huàjiě 。érqiě jīngguò diànshì shang zhèyàng gōngkāi tiáojiě hòu ，yě néng ràng guānzhòng duì yīxiē shìqing tígāo jǐngtì ，fángfàn lèisì de shìqing fāshēng 。
There are many situations where someone who isn't involved directly in a situation can provide an objective view of the situation. Often there are deep contradictions that require instruction from someone outside the situation in order to be resolved. Also, after going through this kind of public mediation on TV, it can make viewers more aware of these things and prevent these kinds of things from happening.
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