Looking down into the distance or looking out of the window is a good option.

向下看远处或看窗外是一个不错的选择。

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I told him it was too late to go out, but he kept looking out of the window and said, "Just for two minutes."

我告诉他现在出去太晚了，但他一直看着窗外说：“就两分钟。”

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I told her it was too late to go out, but she kept looking out of the window and said, "Just for two minutes."

我告诉她现在出去太晚了，但她一直看着窗外说：“就两分钟。”

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A third teacher said Paul looked out the window instead of looking at her.

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The author may have been looking out of the window, but literature, as we encounter it and as a text, is not looking out of the window.

作者可能往窗外看过了，但是文学上，我们遇到它时并且在它作为一个文本时，并不需要往窗外看。

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Literature, when it says "It is raining," is not looking out of the window, right?

文学上，当说到“天在下雨“时“,并未在同时往窗外看，是吧？

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Klein said she kept looking out of the window, counting down the seconds to when the students would get off the bus.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Some still do, looking out of the window as the industrial landscape gives way to green fields and open wetlands teeming with birds.

BBC: Why have the white British left London?

In my study I avoided my irritating desk with its neat binders containing bar charts and statistical tables and sat motionless in the leather chair, looking out the window at the leaves of hydrangea bushes.

NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance