aid: [15] Aid comes ultimately from the same source as adjutant (which originally meant simply ‘assistant’). Latin juvāre became, with the addition of the prefix ad- ‘to’, adjuvāre ‘give help to’; from its past participle adjutus was formed a new verb, adjūtāre, denoting repeated action, and this passed into Old French as a?dier, the source of English aid. => adjutant, jocund
aid (n.)
early 15c., "war-time tax," also "help, support, assistance," from Old French aide, earlier aiudha "aid, help, assistance" (9c.), from Late Latin adjuta, from fem. past participle of Latin adiuvare (past participle adiutus) "to give help to," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + iuvare "to help" (see adjutant). Meaning "thing by which assistance is given" is recorded from c. 1600. Meaning "material help given by one country to another" is from 1940.
aid (v.)
c. 1400, "to assist, help," from Old French aidier "help, assistance," from Latin adiutare, frequentative of adiuvare (past participle adiutus) "give help to" (see adjutant). Related: Aided; aiding.
雙語例句
1. I thought a phonetic spelling might aid in pronunciation.
我想語音拼寫可能有助于發音。
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2. He succeeded with the aid of a completely new method he discovered.
借助于自己發現的一種全新的方法，他獲得了成功。
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3. He keeps coming to the aid of this damsel in distress.
他不斷出手相助這位落難女子。
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4. There are many emergencies which need prompt first aid treatment.
有很多緊急情況需要進行迅速的急救處理。
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5. They siphon foreign aid money into their personal bank accounts.