n.助动词

helping verbs───助动词

helping hand───援助之手；援手；帮手

helping out───帮助…摆脱困难

linking verb───连缀动词

helping hands───援手；支持；帮忙

linking verbs───系动词；联系动词；连系动词

heling in───治愈

helping───n.（食物的）一份，一客；v.帮助，扶持；对……有帮助，有助于；搀扶，带领；给（人）拿（食物等）；私自拿走，窃取；无法避免，忍不住；减轻（疾病的）症状（help的现在分词）

helpings───n.（食物的）一份，一客；v.帮助，扶持；对……有帮助，有助于；搀扶，带领；给（人）拿（食物等）；私自拿走，窃取；无法避免，忍不住；减轻（疾病的）症状（help的现在分词）

What is a helping verb, then?───那么究竟什么是助动词呢？

Now that you've seen this list, do you understand what a helping verb is?───现在你看到这个助动词表了，你知道什么是助动词了么？

Long, long ago, when I was in junior high (and you can tell it was a long time ago because we actually called it junior high back then), I had a teacher who did not know what a helping verb was.───很久很久以前，当我还是个初中生的时候，有一位老师不知道什么是助动词，但他却得教我们这个知识。

Verbs can contain more than one word. A word consisting of two or more verbs is called verb phrase. It's made up of a main verb plus one or more helping verb.