sit by

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A neighbour of the victims in Koshkaky speaks for many: “If the Americans do this again, we are ready to shed our blood against them. We would rather die than sit by and do nothing.”
一位遇难者的邻居道出了大部分人的心声：“如果美国继续这么做，我们就准备与他们死拼到底，我们宁愿死也不能坐视不管袖手旁观”。
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did.
要不是我自己有封信要写，我一定会象另外一位年轻的小姐一样，坐在你身旁欣赏你那工整的书法。
In a statement Apple boss Steve Jobs said: "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it.
苹果老板史蒂夫乔布斯在一份声明中说：”我们能坐观竞争对手窃取我们的专利发明，否则我们能为它做些什么。

The sixteen exhibits include a film recreation of the sit-in story as well as the four counter seats used by the first four protesters.
So, if any of you doesn't want to be, by chance, seen on the Internet, then sit out of range of the camera.
如果你们不想要，意外地，出现在网上的话，那么就坐在摄像机拍摄的范围外。
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it's mostly used by people who will come in their lunch hour and just sit there and have lunch,
大多是一些人在午饭时间过来的，只是坐在那里吃顿饭，
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He says his unit will not sit by as Sunnis continue to bombs Shiites.
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