| 单词 | help |
| 释义 | help I. transitive verb 1. a. < agreed to help him with his biography — Ruth P. Randall > < from the beginning she had helped and abetted him — Stuart Cloete > — often used interjectionally < Help! I'm drowning > b. < good pitching helped the team to the American league championship > 2. a. < bright curtains help a drab room > < aspirin helps a headache > < humor often helps a tense situation > b. archaic < help beer that beginneth to sour — Hugh Plat > < help us from famine — Alfred Tennyson > c. < sometimes I fought when I couldn't help myself — John Reed > 3. a. < a good speech should either amuse or help an audience > < one-way sailing was helped by monsoons — Anne Dorrance > b. < this dispute certainly did not help the negotiations — Theodore Hsi-En Chen > < helping industrial development with two loans — Paul Bareau > 4. a. < people get used to what they can't help quicker than they think they're going to — Mary Austin > b. < neither of us could help laughing — Oscar Wilde > < couldn't help seeing it was stuffed with newspaper clippings — James Hilton > c. < scolded him for something he couldn't help > d. < the campaign against industrial accidents cannot help producing results — F.D.Roosevelt > 5. a. < a loop of gold thread hung down from her sleeve as she helped the soup — Virginia Woolf > b. < helped his neighbor to the wine > < helping himself … to a slice of beef — T.L.Peacock > 6. < the company had helped itself to a generous supply of bicycles — P.W.Thompson > intransitive verb < to help rather than to blame — A.C.Benson > < every little bit helps > — often used with a following infinitive < this principle may at least help to explain — A.O.Wolfers > Synonyms: < only money could help her through the worst of her ordeal — Marcia Davenport > < help a team to win a game > < will help to combat inflation > < help a wounded soldier back to camp > aid often suggests the need of help or relief, often stressing weakness or insufficiency in the one aided and strength in the one aiding < his undergraduate work … was aided by tuition grants — Current Biography > < a wide variety of literature … that will broaden their horizons and aid them to sound, democratic decisions — C.M.Wieting > < to aid families in distress > assist usually stresses the secondary role of the one assisting or the subordinate character of the assistance < to assist visitors in finding places in hotels and auto courts — American Guide Series: Nevada > < the president … is assisted by an 11-man cabinet — Americana Annual > Synonym: see in addition improve. • - cannot help but - so help me II. 1. a. < offered his help in unloading the baggage > < generous to all who needed help > < making … decisions with the help of all significant facts — College & University Business > < always tried to be of help > b. < the help comprised food, clothing, and medicine — J.A.McVann > 2. a. < printed helps to the memory — C.S.Braden > < the singer is a help but he is not essential — Deems Taylor > b. 3. < a situation for which there was no help > 4. a. (1) < I could get you three or four rupees a month as my help — Attia S. Hosain > < now if the help of Norfolk and myself … will but amount to five-and-twenty thousand — Shakespeare > (2) or plural help < I've … scrubbed the bathroom floor when the help has quit — Ethel Merman > < hired help sat at table with the rest of the family — Sherwood Anderson > < the two extra helps we always get in for the birthday — Ngaio Marsh > (3) plural help < ran an ad in the help wanted column > < one of the help in … government agencies — Antioch Review > b. < they were without help again and she had all the work to do — Hamilton Basso > 5. |
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