Sitting by and doing nothing that's a virtue?

干坐在这里傻等也是一种美德？

Are you really going to sit by and do nothing?

你真的打算就这么袖手旁观吗？

I'm not going to sit by and do nothing.

我不会袖手旁观。

Still, she spent that Friday morning grating cheese...and greasing a pan...and laying in macaroni because her eldest daughter was sick, and Stella could no longer sit by and do nothing.

但在星期五的早上，她仍然切着乳酪，给平底锅涂油，并把通心粉放进去，因为她的大女儿生病了，斯特拉也不再坐在一边熟视无睹。