serve

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vt. 可作...用, 服务, 经历, 招待, 供应, 送交, 对待 vi. 服务, 服役, 侍应, 适合, 有用, 开球 n. 发球, 轮到发球

发音

UK /sɜːv/
US /sɝv/
AU /sɑː(ɹ)v/
其它 /sɑː(ɹ)v/

词形变化

serves 复数 serves served servedst serves 三单 servest serveth serving serving 现在分词 served 过去式 served 过去分词

别名

sarve serue

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.

    发球

    体育

    Whose serve is it?

  2. 2.

    A portion of food or drink, a serving.

    澳大利亚
  3. 3.

    An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).

    That white eyeliner is such a serve.

v. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).

    To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.

    上菜

    及物
  2. 2.

    To treat (someone) in a given manner.

    古体 及物
  3. 3.

    To be suitor to; to be the lover of.

    古体 及物
  4. 4.

    To be effective.

    To be useful to; to meet the needs of.

    及物
  5. 5.

    To be effective.

    To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.

    不及物
  6. 6.

    To be effective.

    To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.

    不及物
  7. 7.

    To deliver a document in such a way that the recipient can be legally considered to be informed of it.

    To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).

    及物 法律

    a document served on the tenant

  8. 8.

    To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).

    To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.

    及物

    And yet this is not the office of a Priest, but of Him whom the Priest should serve.

  9. 9.

    To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).

    To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.

    服务

    及物
  10. 10.

    To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).

    To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.

    及物
  11. 11.

    To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).

    To render service by being a servant, worker, employee, or officeholder; to hold those roles and perform their duties.

    不及物
  12. 12.

    To deliver a document in such a way that the recipient can be legally considered to be informed of it.

    To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)

    及物 法律

    to serve a witness with a subpoena

  13. 13.

    To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.

    不及物 及物 体育
  14. 14.

    To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.

    及物

    Conception means that a cow is served by a bull and that she becomes pregnant.

  15. 15.

    To be in military service.

    不及物
  16. 16.

    To work, to operate (a weapon).

    及物 政治 军事
  17. 17.

    To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).

    及物
  18. 18.

    To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.

    航海 交通
  19. 19.

    To perform (a public obligation).

    及物

    I've received a summons for jury duty. It says I serve one day or one trial.

    She served the office of mayor five years ago.

  20. 20.

    To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.

    及物/不及物 俚语 医学
  21. 21.

    To present an attractive personal appearance.

    To present an attractive personal appearance.

    不及物
  22. 22.

    To present an attractive personal appearance.

    To attractively display (something, especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.

    及物
  23. 23.

    To present an attractive personal appearance.

    To evoke (something, especially a person) with one's personal appearance.

    及物

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词源

From Middle English serven, from Old French servir, from Latin serviō (“be a slave; serve”), from Latin servus (“slave; servant”), which perhaps derives from Etruscan (compare Etruscan proper names 𐌔𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌉 (servi), 𐌔𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌄 (serve)), or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“watch over, protect”).

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