Her mother asked her to sit by the window with a nice piece of paper and a pencil, and write something about what she could see.

她妈妈让她坐在窗边，拿着一张漂亮的纸和一支铅笔，把她能看到的东西写下来。

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I had to sit by the table for a rest.

我不得不坐在桌旁休息一下。

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The duck came to them, and Hansel seated himself on its back, and told his sister to sit by him.

鸭子走过来，汉塞尔坐在它的背上，让他妹妹坐在他旁边。

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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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just to sit outside and have a coffee and watch the world go by, and...

就在室外坐着，喝一杯咖啡，观察周围的一切，然后……

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It just means he was-- he could've been hired by somebody to sit at a roadside and collect taxes and tolls and stuff.

他可能只是。。。,他受雇于某人在路边,收税款及通行费等等。

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With such knowledge, it did not make sense to sit by and allow South Africa's to donate the helicopters, Mr Spies said.

BBC: South Africa court 'halts Zimbabwe helicopter donation'

They're not going to sit by and watch themselves be put out of economic business, as it were, by being deprived of their labor force.

NPR: The Hidden Costs and Benefits of Illegal Immigration

Or are we going to just sit by and allow everything we fought for to just slip away?

WHITEHOUSE: REMARKS BY THE FIRST LADY AT A CAMPAIGN EVENT