[Informal] to look on anxiously unable to help
Madam Chou sighed as she watched the girl's retreating back, sorry that she was unable to help her.
What would you do if you lost your job, they closed the banks so you couldn't access your savings, and the government seemed unable to help?
The priest was bound hand and foot by the confidentiality of the confessional and was unable to help the police in their enquiries even though he knew the identity of the man they were seeking.
Desirous But unable to help
Most people are ostriches, heads in the sand, unable to help you anyway.
When you see rows of vibrant green trees standing proudly on the earth, you may be unable to help but admire the vitality of nature.
The grass in the playground steals from the earth. They come out, tender and green. Under the sunshine, the leaves and the green shine, which makes people unable to help but look more.
He has been unable to help us.
The omnifarious trademark torts make the cognizance work more difficulty. The authority department appears unable to help the trademark owners toward the special infringement lacking law to regulate.
There is a kind of open-minded and distant feeling that the South does not have, which always makes people unable to help but produce a different kind of melancholy.
Nowadays, those southwest people who speak strange languages will be unable to help but weep when they come here.
In this episode, the interweaving of reality and illusion is very skillful, and the intimate details make the reader dazzled and unable to help himself to participate in reasoning.
Life has always been very simple, but we have been unable to help it to become very complicated. The end of youth is a song without ending.
I regret being unable to help.
When the beautiful princess saw the figure of this hairpin flower, she felt only soft-hearted, sour, sweet, bitter and hot. The mixed feelings in her heart rose and fell one after another, rolling and surging, which made her dazzled and almost unable to help herself.
My translator and I looked at each other and stammered an apology, unable to help.
"Love" is the voice on the telephone talking to old mum and dad, concerned definitely but unable to help them tide over the problems and pinpricks of each day.
On the ground, the carpet made of peach blossoms is particularly soft, which makes people unable to help sleeping normally and looks more comfortable than the bed.
