朱自清（Zhu Ziqing）的《背影》（The Sight of Father’s Back）

原文：我看那边月台的栅栏外有几个卖东西的等着顾客。走到那边月台，须穿过铁道，须跳下去又爬上去。父亲是一个胖子，走过去自然要费些事。我本来要去的，他不肯，只好让他去。

译文：I caught sight of several vendors waiting for customers outside the railings beyond a platform. But to reach that platform would require crossing the railway track and doing some climbing up and down. That would be a strenuous job for father, who was fat. I wanted to do all that myself, but he stopped me, so I could do nothing but let him go.

张培基先生在这里没有用普通的see，watch，look，而是用了catch sight of（看到，瞥见）。用sight来表达“看见”的词组常用的有以下几种：
* at first sight 乍一看，一见之下；立即
At first sight the difficulty looks greater than it really is.
乍看起来困难较大，但实际上并非如此。

* at（或on，upon）sight 一见（就）
The guard had orders to shoot on sight.
哨兵奉命见对象就开枪。

* catch sight of 看到，发现；意识到
catch sight of oneself in the mirror 在镜中看到自己

* in（或within）sight 看得见，被见到
No vehicle is in sight.
车子一辆也看不见。

* in sight of 在看得到……的地方；到看得见……的程度
We came in sight of the shore at midday.
中午时分，我们见到了海岸。

* lose sight of 不再看见
We lost sight of the boat in the fog.
雾中，我们再也看不到那条小船。

原文：他和我走到车上，将橘子一股脑儿放在我的皮大衣上。于是扑扑衣上的泥土，心里很轻松似的，过一会说，“我走了；到那边来信！”我望着他走出去。

译文：After boarding the train with me, he laid all the tangerines on my overcoat, and patting the dirt off his clothes, he looked somewhat relieved and said after a while, “I must be going now. Don’t forget to write me from Beijing!” I gazed after his back retreating out of the carriage.

“我望着他”译为I gazed after his back“看着他的背影”。总结一组近义词吧~
Look; gaze; glance; glare; ogle; peep; scan; stare

* look 看；注视
Look at this painting!
看这幅画！

* gaze （长时间）凝视，注视（具有吸引力的人或物）
We gazed at the majesty of the mountains.
我们凝望着雄伟的山脉。

* glance 扫视；瞥见；匆匆一看
I glanced back over my shoulder to make sure that no one was following me.
我朝背后瞥了一眼，以确信没有人在跟踪我。

* glare 怒目而视
John glared at me when I mentioned his wife.
我提到他妻子时，约翰愤怒地瞪着我。

* ogle 送秋波，抛媚眼；色迷迷地看
She is fed up with being ogled by strange men.
她极其厌烦被陌生男人色迷迷地盯着看。

* peep 快速地看；瞥见
She peeped at him through her fringe.
她透过额发瞥了他一眼。

* scan 浏览；扫视；审视（有时可与glance互换使用）
She was anxiously scanning the newspaper to see if her name was mentioned.
她急切地浏览着报纸，看自己的名字有没有被提到。

* stare （长时间地，有时指无礼地）盯着看，注视
He could not help staring at her.
他忍不住盯着她看。