| 单词 | help |
| 释义 | help (once / 14 pages) 1vn 2v 3v The verb help means to give aid or assistance to. You can help your friend organize a car wash at school by making posters and putting them up all over town. Help can also mean to serve food or drink––as in, "Help yourself!" But don't serve yourself too much or there won't be enough for a second helping. One last meaning for help is the people hired to provide domestic services in a home. A nanny, a housekeeper, a gardener are often referred to somewhat derisively as "the help," because their job is helping the family. WORD FAMILYhelp: helped, helper, helpful, helping, helpless, helps, self-help+/helper: helpers/helpful: helpfulest, helpfully, helpfulness, unhelpful/helping: helpings/helpless: helplesser, helplessest, helplessly, helplessness/unhelpful: unhelpfully, unhelpfulness USAGE EXAMPLESHe finished with 15 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds to help the Warriors win at home for the eighth game in a row. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) She prescribed oral steroids in addition to a rescue inhaler to calm my overactive airways, which helped. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Occasional use of over-the-counter hydrocortisone cream helps calm the itch. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1v give help or assistance; be of service Everyone helped out during the earthquake Can you help me carry this table? She never helps around the house Syn|Hypo|Hyper aid, assist alleviate, ease, facilitate make easier assist, attend, attend to, serve, wait onwork for or be a servant to benefacthelp as a benefactor help outbe of help, as in a particular situation of need subservebe helpful or useful succor, succourhelp in a difficult situation expedite, hastenspeed up the progress of; facilitate availbe of use to, be useful to care, give careprovide care for bootstraphelp oneself, often through improvised means dry-nursetake care of an infant without breastfeeding it valetserve as a personal attendant to attend, look, see, take caretake charge of or deal with fuss, mother, overprotectcare for like a mother nurseserve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people fagact as a servant for older boys, in British public schools back up, support give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to 2v improve the condition of These pills will help the patient Syn|Hypo|Hyper aid bring around, cure, heal provide a cure for, make healthy again benefit, do goodbe beneficial for recuperaterestore to good health or strength ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better 3v improve; change for the better New slipcovers will help the old living room furniture Hyper ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better 4v be of use This will help to prevent accidents Syn|Hyper facilitate serve contribute or conduce to 5v contribute to the furtherance of This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries Hyper advance, boost, encourage, further, promote contribute to the progress or growth of 6n the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose offered his help in unloading Syn|Hypo|Hyper aid, assist, assistance self-help the act of helping or improving yourself without relying on anyone else facilitationact of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something hand, helping handphysical assistance recourse, refuge, resortact of turning to for assistance thankswith the help of or owing to ministration, relief, succor, succourassistance in time of difficulty liftthe act of giving temporary assistance servicean act of help or assistance accommodationthe act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need boost, encouragementthe act of giving hope or support to someone comfortassistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal supportaiding the cause or policy or interests of servicethe performance of duties by a waiter or servant child care, childcarea service involving care for other people's children community servicean unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence community service, public servicea service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions help desk, helpdeska service that provides information and assistance to the users of a computer network seatingthe service of ushering people to their seats morale booster, morale buildinganything that serves to increase morale comfort, consolation, solacethe act of consoling; giving relief in affliction adherence, adhesion, attachmentfaithful support for a cause or political party or religion advocacy, protagonismactive support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something sponsorshipthe act of sponsoring (either officially or financially) endorsement, indorsementthe act of endorsing approval, approving, blessingthe formal act of approving reassurancethe act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence mercyalleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed activity any specific behavior 7n a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose they hired additional help to finish the work Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper assistant, helper, supporter Damocles the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC) Comtesse Du Barrycourtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793) Sir Walter RaleighEnglish courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618) Sir John SucklingEnglish poet and courtier (1609-1642) coadjutor an assistant to a bishop accomplice, confederatea person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) aide, auxiliarysomeone who acts as assistant attendant, attender, tendersomeone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another bat boy(baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment dental assistantan assistant to a dentist deputy, lieutenantan assistant with power to act when his superior is absent actor's assistant, dressera wardrobe assistant for an actor event plannersomeone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials) facilitatorsomeone who makes progress easier flower girla young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession girl Fridaya female assistant who has a range of duties enforcer, hatchet manone whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior cat's-paw, instrument, pawna person used by another to gain an end birthing coach, doula, labor coach, monitricean assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes underbossan assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate) fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, modela woman who wears clothes to display fashions model, posera person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor paraprofessionala trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional powder monkeysomeone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship) prompter, theater promptersomeone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech chief assistant, man Friday, right-hand manthe most helpful assistant secretarial assistant, secretaryan assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization sidesman(Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church foot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary, underlingan assistant subject to the authority or control of another water boy, watereran assistant who supplies drinking water whipper-inhuntsman's assistant in managing the hounds companionone paid to accompany or assist or live with another artist's model, sittera person who poses for a painter or sculptor associatea person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise baggagemanan attendant who takes care of baggage batmanan orderly assigned to serve a British military officer bellboy, bellhop, bellmansomeone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels bottom doga person of low status bridesmaid, maid of honoran unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding caddie, golf caddiean attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player checkeran attendant who checks coats or baggage coga subordinate who performs an important but routine function courtieran attendant at the court of a sovereign cupbearerthe attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of wine decoy, steerera beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) dressmaker's modelsomeone who models dresses equerrya personal attendant of the British royal family escortan attendant who is employed to accompany someone esquire(Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood executive secretarya secretary having administrative duties and responsibilities famulusa close attendant (as to a scholar) gilliea young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief groomsmana male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding lifeguard, lifesaveran attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents linkboy, linkman(formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets loaderan attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game mana male subordinate matron of honora married woman serving as the attendant to the bride at a wedding nurse's aide, nursing aidesomeone who assists a nurse in tasks that require little formal training hospital attendant, orderlya male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients orderlya soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer page, varletin medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood pagea youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings legal assistant, paralegala person with specialized training who assists lawyers paramedic, paramedicala person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment photographer's modela model who poses for photographers rackeran attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack receptionista secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors rockeran attendant who rocks a child in a cradle secondthe official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match second banana, second fiddlesomeone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role second-in-commandsomeone who relieves a commander servitorsomeone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else social secretarya personal secretary who handles your social correspondence and appointments squireyoung nobleman attendant on a knight gallant, squirea man who attends or escorts a woman amanuensis, shorthand typist, stenographersomeone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) flight attendant, stewardan attendant on an airplane litter-bearer, stretcher-bearerone who helps carry a stretcher supermodela fashion model who has attained the status of a celebrity trainbearerone who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion vicar-general(Roman Catholic Church) an administrative deputy who assists a bishop vice-regenta regent's deputy arouser, rouser, wakersomeone who rouses others from sleep worker a person who works at a specific occupation 8n a resource Syn|Hyper aid, assistance resource a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed 9n a means of serving 2there's no help for it Syn|Hyper avail, service helpfulness the property of providing useful assistance v abstain from doing; always used with a negative 3I can't help myself--I have to smoke She could not help watching the sad spectacle Syn|Hyper help oneself forbear, refrain resist doing something 1v take or use She helped herself to some of the office supplies Syn|Hyper avail exploit, work use or manipulate to one's advantage 2v help to some food; help with food or drink I served him three times, and after that he helped himself Syn|Hyper serve dish, dish out, dish up, serve, serve up provide (usually but not necessarily food) cater, ply, provide, supply give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance |
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