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隔岸观火

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释义

1. to watch the fires burning across the river
2. to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)

隔岸观火的构成词

bank; shore; beach; coast

fire

to separate

to look at

Taoist monastery

penetrating (vision)