Helpfulness

Definition

help /help/ v ၁။ ~ ( sb) (with sth ) ကူညီသည္။ ကူမသည္။ Help! I'm stuck. ❍ Can I help with the washing-up? ❍Your advice helped (me) a lot. ❍ We must all help each other. ❍ A man is helping the police with their enquiries. ❍ Please help me up/ down the stairs with this heavy case (ie help me to carry it up/down). ❍Would it help you to know (ie if I told you) that…? ❍ This charity aims to help people (to) help themselves. ဤလႉဒါန္းေငြျဖင့္ ကိုယ္ထူကိုယ္ထ ရပ္တည္ႏိုင္ေရးကို အကူအညီျပဳရန္ျဖစ္သည္။ ❍ I helped (him) (to) find his clothes. ၂။ ေထာက္ကူသည္။ အက်ဳိးျပဳသည္။ ကူညီသည္။ ပံ့ပိုးသည္။ This latest development doesn't exactly help (matters). ❍ drugs that help to take away pain. ❍ (without to ) stiffer measures to help fight terrorism. ၃။ (က) ~ oneself / sb (to sth) မိမိဘာသာမိမိ သံုးေဆာင္၊ စားေသာက္ သည္။ Help yourself (to a cigarette). ❍ May I help you to some more meat? (ခ) ~ oneself to sth ႀကိဳက္သလို။ စိတ္တိုင္းက်။ He's been helping himself to my stationery. n ၁။ [U] ကူညီျခင္း။ အကူအညီ။ Thank you for all your help. ❍ Can I be of (any) help to you? ❍ The map wasn't much help. ❍ She came to our help (ie helped us). ၂။ [sing] a~ (to sb) အကူအညီ။ ကူေဖာ္ေလာင္ဖက္။ She was more of a hindrance than a help (to me). ❍ Your advice was a great help. ❍ ( ironic ) You're a great help (ie no help at all), I must say! ၃။ [C] အခစား။ အခိုင္းအေစ။ အိမ္ေစ။ အိမ္ေဖာ္။ The help hasn't come this morning. See also HOME-HELP ❏ can/ could (not) help (doing) sth [ IDM ] တတ္ႏိုင္ သည္။ It can't / couldn't be helped (ie There was no way of avoiding it and we must accept that). ❍ Can I help it (ie Is it my fault) if people don't read the instructions? ❍ He can't help having big ears. ❍ I wouldn't live there—well, not if I could help it. ❍ We can't help thinking he's still alive. ❍ She burst out laughing—she couldn't help it/ herself (ie could not stop herself). ❍ She never does more work than she can help (ie She does as little as possible). ❏ God/ Heaven help sb [ IDM ] ဘုရားသခင္ကယ္ေတာ္မူပါ။ God help you (ie You will be in trouble) if the teacher finds out! ❏ helper n အကူညီေပးသူ။ အကူအညီ။ အကူ။ ❏ helpful /-fl/ adj ~ ( to sb ) ကူညီေဖာ္ရေသာ။ အသံုးက်ေသာ။ a helpful person/ suggestion/ map ❍ He's always very helpful to his mother. helpfully /-fǝli/ adv helpfulness n [U] ❏ helping n တစ္ခါျပင္။ တစ္ပြဲ။ have/ take a second helping ❍ She had two generous helpings of pie. ❏ a helping hand [ IDM ] ကူညီမႈ။ အကူအညီ။ give/lend (sb) a helping hand. ❏ helpless adj ၁။ ကိုယ့္ဘာသာကိုယ္ မလုပ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ ကိုယ္ထူ ကိုယ္ထ မလုပ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ a helpless baby/ invalid/ drunkard ❍ be helpless with laughter မဟန္ႏိုင္ေလာက္ေအာင္ ရယ္ရလြန္းသည္။ ၂။ ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့ေသာ။ Without weapons we are helpless. helplessly adv helplessness n [U] ❏ help sb off/ on with sth [ PHRV ] (ကုတ္အက်ႌ) ခြၽတ္ေပး သည္၊ ဝတ္ေပးသည္။ Can I help you on with your coat? ❏ help (sb) out [ PHRV ] ကူညီသည္။ He's always willing to help (us) out when we're short of staff. ❏ so help me (God) [ IDM ] ငါက်ိန္ေျပာပါတယ္။ ဘုရား စူးရပါေစရဲ႕။ I never stole the money, so help me (I didn't)! ❏ there is no help for it [ IDM ] မတတ္ႏိုင္ေတာ့ဘူး။

Examples

1. If you are finding that difficult
2. I could help you.
3. Mary was anxious to help.
4. [help someone (to) do something] : Can you help me find my glasses?
5. [help someone with something] : Her brother offered to help her with her homework.
6. [help someone through something] : They helped me through a very difficult time.
7. I’ll help you to the door.
8. Can I help you off with your coat (=help you to take it off)?
9. [help someone to something] : Can I help you to more vegetables?
10. [help yourself to something] : Help yourselves to more wine.
11. More police officers on the streets would help.
12. Organic farming methods help the environment.
13. [help (to) do something] : The new measure will help boost trade.
14. We hope this helps to clarify the situation.
15. [help towards] : Further study will help towards a better understanding of the problem.