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helpmate

音標['helpmeit] 讀音

漢語翻譯

n. 助手, 伴侶, 終身伴侶

英文解釋:

名詞 helpmate:

  1. a helpful partner
    同義詞:helpmeet

詳細解釋:


help.mate

n.(名詞)
A helper and companion, especially a spouse.
助手,合作者:幫手及夥伴,尤指配偶妻子

<注釋>The existence of the two wordshelpmeet and helpmate meaning exactly the same thing is a comedy of errors. God`s promise to Adam, in Genesis 2:8 as rendered in the King James version of the Bible ('), was to give him .an help [helper] meet [fit or suitable] for him..In '73 the poet John Dryden used the phrase .help-meet for man,.with a hyphen betweenhelp and meet. This was one step on the way toward the establishment of the phrase .help meet. as an independent word.Another was the use of .help meet.without .for man.to mean a suitable helper,usually a spouse, as Eve had been to Adam.Despite such usages,however, for the most parthelpmeet was not thought of as a word in its own right until the 9th century. Nonetheless the phrase .help meet. probably played a role in the creation of the synonymous compoundhelpmate, from ( help and mate ), first recorded in 75.
Helpmeethelpmate 這兩個意義完全相同的詞的存在緣於一起錯誤的喜劇。 據英王詹姆士一世欽定《聖經》英譯本('年)《創業記》2:8的記載,上帝允諾亞當給他.一個適合他的助手.。'73年,詩人約翰·德萊頓使用了.男人的助手.這個短語,並且helpmeet 中間加了一個連字元成為help-meet。 這是短語.help meet.成為一個獨立的單詞道路上所邁出的第一步。另一步就是單獨使用.help meet.,去掉了.for man.這個成分,意思是適合的夥伴,通常指象夏娃之於亞當那樣的伴侶。儘管有以上這些用法,但是,總的說來,helpmeet 這個說法直到9世紀才憑藉自身的資格成為一個單詞。 但不管怎么說,同義合成詞helpmate 來源於( helpmate )的創造過程中(這個詞首次記錄於75年),短語.help meet.很可能扮演了一定的角色

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