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.
雙語例句
1. We are here to protect and assist the weak and infirm.
我們來這里保護、幫助年邁體弱者。
來自柯林斯例句
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。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The Authority will provide a welfare worker to assist you.
當局會派一名義工來幫助你。
來自柯林斯例句
4. his ham-fisted efforts to assist her
他為了幫她而做出的笨手笨腳的努力
來自《權威詞典》
5. The plan provided for the rich to assist the poor.