assistance

名词，指向他人提供的帮助、援助，或提供帮助这一行动及其结果。

💡 记忆钩子

把“站在别人身边”想成伸手扶一把：这个动作就是帮助，需要时提供的支持就是援助，因此 assistance 主要表示正式语境中的“帮助、援助”。

📖 中文释义

noun

core 帮助；援助

📖 指为解决某人的困难而提供的帮助，也可以指提供这种帮助的行动或结果；重点是“在旁边扶持一把”这一概念。

💡 常用 offer/provide assistance to sb 表示“向某人提供帮助”，也可用 receive/get assistance from sb 表示“得到某人的帮助”。它通常作不可数名词，前面不加 a；若要强调一次具体的帮助，可以改用 an act of assistance 或直接用 help。这个词比 help 更正式，适合公告、服务说明和书面表达。

uncountable usually

The volunteers offered assistance to the flood victims.

志愿者向洪灾受害者提供了帮助。

Please ask for assistance if you cannot use the machine.

如果你不会使用这台机器，请寻求帮助。

assistances plural

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 3 组

the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; ; ;

同义词集: aid assist assistance help

he gave me an assist with the housework

could not walk without assistance

rescue party went to their aid

offered his help in unloading

上位: activity 下位: accommodation, boost, comfort, encouragement, facilitation, hand, helping hand, lift, ministration, recourse, refuge, relief, resort, self-help, service, succor, succour, support, thanks

a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do;

同义词集: aid assistance help

visual aids in teaching

his job was to give technical assistance over the phone

上位: resource

gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause

同义词集: aid economic aid financial aid assistance financial assistance economic assistance

economic assistance to depressed areas

上位: gift 下位: fellowship, grant, grant-in-aid, philanthropic gift, philanthropy, public assistance, scholarship, social welfare, welfare

🌳 词源

源自中古英语，经中古法语和中世纪拉丁语而来，最终与拉丁语中“站在旁边”有关。

From Middle English assistance, from Middle French assistance, from Medieval Latin assistentia, from Latin assistō (“to stand at”). By surface analysis, assist + -ance.

🔄 变式

assistances plural

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