assist

英[?'s?st] 美[?'s?st]

第三人稱單數(shù):?assists;過去式:?assisted;過去分詞:?assisted;現(xiàn)在分詞:?assisting;

assist 援助

前綴as- 同ad-. 詞根sist, 站，詞根st的反復形式。

assizes 巡回法庭

來自古法語assise。前綴as- 同ad-. 詞根sid, 坐，同sit, session. 借指開庭。單詞size為該詞縮寫。因舊時法庭不僅有審判斷案職能，同時兼管規(guī)范經(jīng)濟生活中尺寸，重量，款罰，稅收標準等職能，因而衍生此義。比較中國古代縣官的職責。

assist: assist: [15] Etymologically, assist means ‘stand by’. It comes, via French assister, from Latin assistere, a compound verb formed from the prefix ad- ‘near’ and sistere ‘stand’ (related to Latin stāre ‘stand’, from which English gets state, station, status, statue, etc). A remnant of this original meaning survives in the sense ‘be present without actually participating’, but the main use of the word in English has always been that which came from the metaphorical sense of the Latin verb – ‘help’.
=> state, station, statue, status
assist (v.): early 15c., from Middle French assister "to stand by, help, put, place, assist" (14c.), from Latin assistere "stand by, take a stand near, attend," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + sistere "stand still, take a stand; to set, place, cause to stand," from PIE *si-st-, reduplicated form of root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Related: Assisted; assisting. Medical assisted suicide attested from 1884.
assist (n.): 1570s, "an act of assistance," from assist (v.). In the sporting sense attested 1877 in baseball, 1925 in ice hockey.

2. The public is urgently requested to assist police in tracing this man.: 緊急要求公眾幫助警方追蹤此人。

3. The Authority will provide a welfare worker to assist you.: 當局會派一名義工來幫助你。