serve

英[sɜːv]美[sɜːrv]

v.为…服务/效力，任职，可用作，提供，接待，送交，服刑，发球，对…有用，端上（食物），足够…吃/用；

n.发球；

第三人称单数：serves;

过去式：served;

过去分词：served;

现在分词：serving;

例句

It seems to serve no visible use.这东西看不出有明显的用途。

The dish is too shallow to serve soup in.盘子太浅, 盛不了汤。

This suitcase will serve for a seat.这只旅行箱可以用作座椅。

The company will serve a meal at noon to all staff workers.该公司将为所有职员提供午餐。

The manager of the restaurant has trained the waitress to serve correctly at table.饭馆的经理训练过那位女服务员如何正确地招待顾客。

He continued to suppress the people and serve the imperialists.他继续镇压人民,为帝国主义效劳。

Air hostesses all smile when they serve the passengers.空姐们为乘客服务时总是满脸笑容。

They drafted her to serve as their delegate.他们选她当代表。

The job of a politician is to serve the whole community.**家的职责是为全体大众服务。

After become effective of property insurance contract, those who serve as insurance mark insurance belongings reachs his to concern a benefit, because the meeting is buying and selling, given, accede to wait for the happening of the circumstance and be tr财产保险合同生效后，作为保险标的的保险财产及其有关利益，会由于买卖、赠予、继续等情况的发生而转移，保险标的转让后，保险利益当然会随之转移给保险标的的受让人。

英语六级真题

If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.

In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.

Furthermore, the issue is not just how the team can function more effectively, but how it integrates with the overall organization, or society that it supposes it serves.

Still, at the most selective schools, where thousands of candidates may submit identically high grades and test scores, a marginal item like the essay may serve as a tie-breaker between two equally qualified candidates.

They will serve as modem Magellans, mapping out the solar system for whatever explorers follow, whether man or machine

My grandfather served in World War II, and I hope to be just like him someday.

Smith's book serves as an excellent introduction to a vast subject, and will suggest plenty of further

It serves as a guide to arts and commerce

Corporations in Germany realized that there was an interest to be served economically and patriotically in building up a skilled labor force at home; we never had that ethos (风气)," says Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist who has written about the connection of craft and culture.

The plant's carbon-capture technologies would serve as a pilot project for other new coal-burning plants.

Google claims its plan for the world's biggest online library is to serve the interest of the general public.

to serve the interest of the general public

We think it serves them right for being mean to other people.

Esperanto is an artificial language, designed to serve internationally as an auxiliary means of communication among speakers of different languages.

Basically we turned our skin darker to serve as a natural sun protector in the place of the hair we lost.

Le Bohec said:"The plight of the king penguin should serve as a warning about the future of the entire marine environment in the Antarctic."

Robots capable of social engagement help with loneliness as well as cognitive functioning, but the robot itself doesn't have to engage directly—it can serve as an intermediary for human communication.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

为…服务;为…效力;为…效忠

If you serve your country, an organization, or a person, you do useful work for them.

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VERB

(尤指在部队)服役;(在*府部门)任职

If you serve in a particular place or as a particular official, you perform official duties, especially in the armed forces, as a civil servant, or as a politician.

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VERB

用作;可当…使用;充作

If something serves as a particular thing or serves a particular purpose, it performs a particular function, which is often not its intended function.

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VERB

供应(某地或某人);为…提供服务

If something serves people or an area, it provides them with something that they need.

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VERB

对…有用;能满足…的需要;符合…的利益

Something that serves someone's interests benefits them.

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VERB

(给…)提供，端上(食物);上(菜);开(饭)

When you serve food and drink, you give people food and drink.

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VERB

(食物的量)足够…吃

Serve is used to indicate how much food a recipe produces. For example, a recipe that serves six provides enough food for six people.

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VERB

接待，服务，招待(顾客)

Someone who serves customers in a shop or a bar helps them and provides them with what they want to buy.

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VERB

送交(令状等);把…送达

When the police or other officials serve someone with a legal order or serve an order on them, they give or send the legal order to them.

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VERB

服(刑);当(学徒)

If you serve something such as a prison sentence or an apprenticeship, you spend a period of time doing it.

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VERB

(在网球、羽毛球等比赛中)发球

When you serve in games such as tennis and badminton, you throw up the ball or shuttlecock and hit it to start play.

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N-COUNT

(某些球类比赛中的)发球

When you describe someone's serve, you are indicating how well or how fast they serve a ball or shuttlecock.

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PHRASE

咎由自取;罪有应得;活该

If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.

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英汉词典释义

vt. & vi.

(为…)服务; 任(职)

提供, 端上

vt.

向…供应

度过(某段时间)

接待；服务

对…有用；能满足…的需要

可用作，可当…使（尤指别无选择时）

产生…的效果（或结果）

（为…）工作，服务，履行义务，尽职责

任期为；担任（职务）时间达；培训期为

服（刑）

把…送达；向（某人）送交

网球等发球

作…的仆人；给…干活

侍奉(上帝、君王等)

在…处服兵役；为…执勤

侍候…进餐；给…上菜(或饮料等)；摆上(饭菜、饮料等)

为…提供饮食，为…供给(饭、菜、饮料等)

适合…的目的(或用途等)；够…之用

vi.

够…吃（或用）

帮佣，作仆人

供职，服务；工作

服役；当兵

侍候进餐；上菜；上饮料

接待顾客，为顾客服务

(作为主人)提供食品(或饮料等)

适合，合宜；有利

作(…)之用，符合(…)需要，可作(…)目的

【网球、羽毛球】发球

【**】当助祭

n.

网球等发球

【网球、羽毛球】发球；发球权；所发的球；轮到发球

英英词典释义

Noun

1. (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play;

Verb

1. serve a purpose, role, or function;

2. do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function;

3. contribute or conduce to;

4. be used by; as of a utility;

5. help to some food; help with food or drink;

6. provide (usually but not necessarily food);

7. devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas;

8. promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to;

9. spend time in prison or in a labor camp;

10. work for or be a servant to;

11. deliver a warrant or summons to someone;

12. be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity;

13. do military service;

14. mate with;

15. put the ball into play;

行业词典

体育： 发球；伺服机构；随动系统；

旅游： 发球；

法律： 送达；保外执行；