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借助

jiè zhù

HSK 6 2-character word

What 借助 means

1. to draw support from
2. with the help of

The characters in 借助

• 借jièto borrow; (used in combination with 给; to make use of; to avail oneself of
• 助zhùto help; to assist

Example sentences

• 汤姆说，他真的没有借助他人协助，自己完成了那件事。
  Tom said that he really did do that without anybody's help.
• 若老师要筹划一趟假期旅行或类似需要比价、核算费用的事，他便会借助学生的本领。有时，妻子想要一个新果盘，或丈夫想要一把新裁纸刀；许多人有儿子需要听睡前短故事，或有女儿的洋娃娃必须穿上最时髦的衣裳；凡此种种，老师一律让学生替他代劳。
  If the teacher is to plan out a vacation or something similar requiring one to compare prices and figure out what it would cost, it is the pupils' skills he would exploit. Sometimes, the wife may be wishing for a new fruit bowl, or perhaps the husband is looking for a new letter opener. Many have sons that require a short bedside story or daughters with dolls that must be clad in clothing of utmost fashionability; all this, the teacher makes the pupils make for him.

Sounds the same

Read jiè zhù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 借住to lodge
• 借箸lit. to borrow chopsticks; to make plans for sb else