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English

1. (adverb) (look on) dully or blankly; (look on) helplessly; to describe how one is watching something happening right before one's very eyes but that there is nothing that one can do about it
2. helplessly; to look on helplessly

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 無助；只能夠睇住一啲自己唔想嘅事發生，而做唔到任何嘢

Examples

• 佢眼白白睇住個女俾人捉走。

  He helplessly witnessed his daughter being kidnapped.

• 九秒九飛奔去巴士站，但都眼白白目送車尾。

  I rushed to the bus stop, but witnessed the bus depart.