Have you ever stood somewhere…
你有没有站在某个地方……
so high that the world below you feels strangely quiet,
高到让脚下的世界突然变得异常安静，
yet so close that you can see every tiny movement—
但又近到你可以看到每一个细微的动作——
a car turning,
一辆车拐弯，
a kid chasing a ball,
一个孩子追着球跑，
a curtain fluttering in someone’s window?
某户人家窗帘轻轻摆动？
In that moment,
而就在那一刻，
you’re not just looking.
你不只是“看着”。
You’re overlooking—
你是在“俯瞰”——
seeing the whole picture from above,
从上方看清整幅画面，
with a calmness you can’t find on the ground.
带着一种地面上无法拥有的平静感。
Overlooking.
Overlooking。
Let’s slow it down.
我们慢下来一点。
Over… looking.
Over… looking。
Looking from above.
从上往下看。
Watching from a higher place.
从更高的位置观察。
That’s the heart of the word.
这就是这个单词的核心。
When something is overlooking something else,
当某物 overlooking 另一件事物时，
it stands higher,
它站得更高，
faces downward,
面向下方，
and sees the full view.
并能看到完整的景象。
A tiny café overlooking the river.
一间俯瞰河面的咖啡馆。
A window overlooking the park.
一扇面向公园的窗。
A mountain cabin overlooking clouds.
一间俯视云海的山间小屋。
Peaceful.
宁静。
Open.
开阔。
Almost cinematic.
几乎像电影画面一样。
But overlooking has another meaning.
但 overlooking 还有另一个意思。
Sometimes it means missing something.
有时它表示“忽略、没注意到”。
Not because you don’t care.
不是因为你不在乎。
But because your mind is somewhere else.
而是因为你的注意力不在那儿。
Like when you overlook a tiny mistake on your homework.
比如你在作业上忽略了一个小错误。
Or overlook how someone is really feeling.
又或者你没有注意到某人真正的情绪。
You didn’t ignore it.
你不是故意忽视。
You just didn’t look close enough.
只是没有看得足够仔细。
Let’s see how we use it in real life.
我们用生活里的句子感受一下。
My room overlooks the sea.
我的房间俯瞰着大海。
Every morning the sunrise pours straight in.
每天早上阳光倾泻进来。
She overlooked one tiny clue in the exam,
她在考试中忽略了一个小线索，
and everything changed.
然后整张试卷的结果都变了。
We had lunch at a cliffside café
我们在一间悬崖边的咖啡馆吃午餐，
overlooking the whole city.
它俯瞰着整座城市。
It felt like eating inside a postcard.
感觉就像在明信片里吃饭。
Now, people often mix up overlooking with ignoring.
很多人把 overlooking 和 ignoring 搞混。
But they’re not the same.
但它们完全不同。
Ignoring is intentional—
Ignoring 是故意不看，
you choose not to pay attention.
你选择不理会。
Overlooking is accidental—
Overlooking 则是无意错过，
you simply didn’t notice.
你只是没看到。
And people confuse it with overseeing too.
人们也会把它和 overseeing 混淆。
Overseeing means supervising,
Overseeing 是“监督、管理”，
like a boss watching a team.
就像老板在看着一个团队。
Overlooking is never about control.
Overlooking 从来不是“管理”。
It’s about perspective.
它讲的是“视角”。
The high view.
更高的位置。
The missing detail.
被漏掉的细节。
The moment the world becomes clearer—
世界变得更清晰的那一刻——
or blurrier.
或更模糊的那一刻。
And now we return to that first image.
现在让我们回到最开头的那个画面。
You.
你。
Standing somewhere high,
站在某个高处，
watching the world move quietly beneath you.
看着世界在你脚下轻轻流动。
Because that’s what “overlooking” really is—
因为这就是 overlooking 的真正含义——
a word that holds two truths:
一个同时包含两种真相的词：
seeing more than others,
看得比别人更远，
and sometimes…
而有时……
seeing less than you should.
看得比你应该看到的更少。
Say it one last time.
最后再念一次。
Overlooking.
Overlooking。
And now—
而现在——
you won’t forget it.
你不会再忘记它了。