in aid of

基本解释

“It was the army’s duty to come in aid of the civil power, ” says the army’s spokesman, Major-General Athar Abbas.
“帮助民间力量是军队的责任，”军队的新闻首席发言人阿塔-阿巴斯少将说。
But yet without praying in aid of alchemists, there is a manifest image of this, in the ordinary course of nature.
然而，即令不借助于术士，在普通的自然现象中，也可以看到这种情形很明显的肖象。
The provincial and federal governments, as well as the army, are judged to have performed poorly in aid of the victims, who have mostly had to rely on private charity or fend for themselves.
民众认为省政府和国家政府以及军队，在帮助灾民方面表现甚差，这些灾民大都不得不转而依靠私人慈善机构或者自救。

The United Nations temporarily suspended aid operations in Gaza Thursday after Israeli fire killed the driver of an aid truck.
The military aid always has to be within a certant disatance of the president in case of emergency.
军事助理经常需要,待在总统的一定范围内,以防出现紧急情况。
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Now, texts from Ancient Near Eastern cultures suggest that a central function of the rituals that were performed in sanctuaries was to secure the perpetual aid and blessing of a well-disposed deity.
古近东文化的课文中提出,在圣所里进行的仪式的一个主要功能,是保证能够向神灵获得永久地帮助和祝福。
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Other, smaller craters in the North Sea and Ukraine have been prayed in aid of this theory.
ECONOMIST: Mass extinctions