Significados de spectator stands en inglés

Before these stupendous hot-water works the spectator stands aghast, and boils his egg in fourteen seconds, by a stop-watch.

In the engraving just referred to, the spectator stands in one of these courts, looking over a low wall into the other.

In fact spectator stands were identified as the most homophobic of all sporting environments, which isn't quelling my fears over my safety.