It's like an observer, and not the participant any more, yes.

就像一个观察员，而不再是参与者了，是的。

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And yet he craves admission to the eurogroup-not as a participant, he says, but as an observer.

然而他渴望进入欧元集团——不是作为一个成员，而是作为观察者。

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Another participant (the observer) simply watched on as this was happening, silently judging.

另外一个被试(旁观者)只需旁观发生的事情，然后默默地进行判评。

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Yes, there is a time to pivot, to cut your losses and to move forward but for a true entrepreneur (and for most every successful leader) that point is much further along the realm of the seemingly impossible than any other participant or observer would have thought.

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Zoffany seems to have had a restless streak that kept him on the move, from Rome back to Germany, back to Italy, and then, by late 1760, to England, where he settled briefly and turned into a central observer and participant in the art and culture of his time.

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