冷眼旁观 [lěng yǎn páng guān]

• look coldly from the sidelines at ...; look on as a disinterested by-stander; look on coldly as a bystander; look on indifferently; look on unconcerned; look on with a cold eye; see it from the side; stand aloof and look on with cold indifference; take a detached point of view; take the attitude of a cold onlooker; watch indifferently [calmly]:

  Such petty-bourgeois individualists always look coldly from the side-lines at the people's cause.

  这种小资产阶级个人主义者对人民的事业总是抱着冷眼旁观的态度。