名詞 helpmate:

1. a helpful partner
   同義詞：helpmeet

help.mate

n.（名詞）
A helper and companion, especially a spouse.
助手，合作者：幫手及伙伴，尤指配偶（妻子）

<注釋>The existence of the two wordshelpmeet and helpmate meaning exactly the same thing is a comedy of errors. God`s promise to Adam, in Genesis 2:8 as rendered in the King James version of the Bible ('), was to give him .an help [helper] meet [fit or suitable] for him..In '73 the poet John Dryden used the phrase .help-meet for man,.with a hyphen betweenhelp and meet. This was one step on the way toward the establishment of the phrase .help meet. as an independent word.Another was the use of .help meet.without .for man.to mean a suitable helper,usually a spouse, as Eve had been to Adam.Despite such usages,however, for the most parthelpmeet was not thought of as a word in its own right until the 9th century. Nonetheless the phrase .help meet. probably played a role in the creation of the synonymous compoundhelpmate, from ( help and mate ), first recorded in 75.
Helpmeet 和 helpmate 這兩個(gè)意義完全相同的詞的存在緣于一起錯(cuò)誤的喜劇。 據(jù)英王詹姆士一世欽定《圣經(jīng)》英譯本('年）《創(chuàng)業(yè)記》2：8的記載，上帝允諾亞當(dāng)給他.一個(gè)適合他的助手.。'73年，詩(shī)人約翰·德萊頓使用了.男人的助手.這個(gè)短語(yǔ)，并且在help 和 meet 中間加了一個(gè)連字符成為help-meet。 這是短語(yǔ).help meet.成為一個(gè)獨(dú)立的單詞道路上所邁出的第一步。另一步就是單獨(dú)使用.help meet.，去掉了.for man.這個(gè)成分，意思是適合的伙伴，通常指象夏娃之于亞當(dāng)那樣的伴侶。盡管有以上這些用法，但是，總的說(shuō)來(lái)，helpmeet 這個(gè)說(shuō)法直到9世紀(jì)才憑借自身的資格成為一個(gè)單詞。 但不管怎么說(shuō)，同義合成詞helpmate 來(lái)源于（ help 加 mate ）的創(chuàng)造過(guò)程中（這個(gè)詞首次記錄于75年），短語(yǔ).help meet.很可能扮演了一定的角色