helpmate
/help-meyt/US // ˈhɛlpˌmeɪt //UK // (ˈhɛlpˌmeɪt) //
帮助伙伴,帮助朋友,帮助同伴,帮助者
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n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a companion and helper.
- : a spouse.
- : anything that aids or assists, especially regularly: This calculator is my constant helpmate.
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Examples
In the enigmatic role of first lady, she struggled with the symbolism—part beauty queen, part saint, part helpmate.
I have promised on your behalf that you will be a good and faithful helpmate to him before God and man.
She is not strong, and not good-looking, and not young; but what a splendid helpmate she would be for a sensible, cultivated man!
But her life was busy and earnest: she was helpmate, not in name only, to an ever-busy man.
Abby'll make a man a good, vigorous helpmate, and she'll bring him money in time.
Compare a bachelor's house with the same house after its master has taken to himself a helpmate.
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