有用,讓事情變容易
眼睛放在效果上:不管來源是東西還是別人的一句話,重點是事情確實因此變輕鬆了。
giving useful help · adjective · B1
Giving useful help that makes a situation better or easier.
有幫助的 / 有用的
Picture someone struggling with a heavy door, and a hand reaching in to hold it open. Helpful can be thought of as anything that makes the load lighter. The interesting part is what English lets carry that hand. It can be a thing — a map, a tip, a website — and then helpful means it actually made the job easier. Or it can be a person, and then helpful is not about one moment but about how they are: the sort of person whose hand is always ready before you ask. Same lightened load, once seen in the thing that lightened it, once seen in the person willing to lighten it.
Two branches
有用,讓事情變容易
眼睛放在效果上:不管來源是東西還是別人的一句話,重點是事情確實因此變輕鬆了。
giving useful help · adjective · B1
Giving useful help that makes a situation better or easier.
有幫助的 / 有用的
樂於幫忙的性格
把同一隻手看成一個人的習慣:不是這一次有沒有幫上忙,而是這個人隨時都願意伸手。這時候 helpful 描述的是態度,不是結果。
always willing to help · adjective · B1
Always ready and willing to help other people.
樂於助人的
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
helpfuladj/ˈhɛlp.fl̩/
Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。