资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   7. To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and
      passing food.

   {To help forward}, to assist in advancing.

   {To help off}, to help to go or pass away, as time; to assist
      in removing. --Locke.

   {To help on}, to forward; to promote by aid.

   {To help out}, to aid, as in delivering from a difficulty, or
      to aid in completing a design or task.

            The god of learning and of light Would want a god
            himself to help him out.              --Swift.

   {To help over}, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over
      an obstacle.

   {To help to}, to supply with; to furnish with; as, to help
      one to soup.

   {To help up}, to help (one) to get up; to assist in rising,
      as after a fall, and the like. ``A man is well holp up
      that trusts to you.'' --Shak.

   Syn: To aid; assist; succor; relieve; serve; support;
        sustain; befriend.

   Usage: To {Help}, {Aid}, {Assist}. These words all agree in
          the idea of affording relief or support to a person
          under difficulties. Help turns attention especially to
          the source of relief. If I fall into a pit, I call for
          help; and he who helps me out does it by an act of his
          own. Aid turns attention to the other side, and
          supposes co["o]peration on the part of him who is
          relieved; as, he aided me in getting out of the pit; I
          got out by the aid of a ladder which he brought.
          Assist has a primary reference to relief afforded by a
          person who ``stands by'' in order to relieve. It
          denotes both help and aid. Thus, we say of a person
          who is weak, I assisted him upstairs, or, he mounted
          the stairs by my assistance. When help is used as a
          noun, it points less distinctively and exclusively to
          the source of relief, or, in other words, agrees more
          closely with aid. Thus we say, I got out of a pit by
          the help of my friend.

Help \Help\, v. i.
   To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means;
   to avail or be of use; to assist.

         A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an
         agreeable person.                        --Garth.

   {To help out}, to lend aid; to bring a supply.