look around(dōng guāng xī wàng)
look around
Looking east and West, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d à nggu à NGX à w à ng, which means to look around and see what's going on. From Yu Shi Ming Yan.
Notes on Idioms
Watch: look; look: look into the distance.
The origin of Idioms
Feng Menglong's Yu Shi Ming Yan of Ming Dynasty, Vol.26: "Duke Zhang is also flustered. I'm afraid someone will bump into him when he looks around."
Idiom usage
It means to wait and see. Chapter 43 of Water Margin by Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty: stand up, look around, and you can see an nunnery on the top of the mountain far away. He is so anxious that he looks around, but there is no help.
Chinese PinYin : dōng guāng xī wàng
look around
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