serve

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音标发音

英式音标 [sɜːv]
美式音标 [sɝːv]
国际音标 [sə:v]
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基本解释

vt. 招待，供应；为…服务；对…有用；可作…用
vi. 服役，服务；适合，足够；发球；招待，侍候
n. 发球，轮到发球
n. (Serve)人名；(法)塞尔夫

词源解说

12世纪后期进入英语，直接源自古法语的servir，意为发球；最初源自拉丁语的servire。

同根派生

adj性质的同根词
serving：用于上菜的。
serviceable：有用的，可供使用的；耐用的。
n性质的同根词
server：发球员；服伺者；服勤者；伺候者。
serving：服务；上菜；一份食物。
serviceability：可用性，适用性；使用可靠性；[计]可服务性；可维修性。
servicing：维修。
v性质的同根词
serving：服务（serve的ing形式）。
servicing：为…服务（service的ing形式）。

serve相关词

用法辨析

v. (动词)

serve的基本意思是“服务,服役”,它可指某人为他人服务、干活或为国家尽职等; 也可指某人拿出某物款待某人; 还可指某人、物、事对某人、某事等“有…用处”“满足…的需要”“适合…的目的”等。在网球或排球比赛中还可作“发(球)”解。
serve可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词、代词、动词不定式作宾语,还可以接双宾语,其间接宾语可转换为介词to的宾语。serve有时还可接以形容词作补足语的复合宾语。

英汉例句

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

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。

用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

We must try to serve others.
我们应尽力为他人服务。

S+～+to- v

His words served to make the situation better.
他的话会使局势变得更好。

用作双宾动词: S+～+ pron./n. + n./pron.

Could you serve us tea and coffee?
你能供给我们茶和咖啡吗?

S+～+ n./pron. +to pron./n.

She served beer and wine to them.
她给他们端上了啤酒和葡萄酒。

用作宾补动词: S+～+ n./pron. + adj.

Make sure you serve the coffee hot.
务必做到端上的咖啡是热的。

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词组短语

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

serve a ball 发球
serve a cause 献身于某事业
serve a gun 炮击
serve a sentence 服刑
serve an office 奉职,服务

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

(PROVIDE FOOD/DRINK) to provide food or drinks
(WORK) to work for; to do your duty to
(HELP ACHIEVE) to help achieve something or to be useful as something
(PROVIDE STH NECESSARY) to provide with something that is needed
(DEAL WITH CUSTOMER) in a shop, restaurant, or hotel, to deal with a customer by taking their order, showing or selling them goods, etc.
(SPEND TIME) to spend a period of time doing something
(HIT BALL) in sports such as tennis, to hit the ball to the other player as a way of starting the game
(GIVE DOCUMENT) to give a legal document to someone, demanding that they go to a law court or that they obey an order
in sports such as tennis, the act of hitting the ball to the other player to start play

柯林斯英英字典

If you serve your country, an organization, or a person, you do useful work for them.
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.
If something serves as a particular thing or serves a particular purpose, it performs a particular function, which is often not its intended function.
If something serves people or an area, it provides them with something that they need.
Something that serves someone's interests benefits them.
When you serve food and drinks, you give people food and drinks.
Serve up means the same as .
Serve is used to indicate how much food a recipe produces. For example, a recipe that serves six provides enough food for six people.
Someone who serves customers in a shop or a bar helps them and provides them with what they want to buy.
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. (/)
If you serve something such as a prison sentence or an apprenticeship, you spend a period of time doing it.
When you serve in games such as tennis and badminton, you throw up the ball or shuttlecock and hit it to start play.
Serve is also a noun.
When you describe someone's serve, you are indicating how well or how fast they serve a ball or shuttlecock.
&rarrsee also serving
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.

专业释义

法学

服务
How to make enterprises serve society better is the key problem which we currently solve.
如何让企业更好地为社会服务成为我们目前所要解决的关键问题。
送达(传票)；向…送交(令状等)：

计算机科学技术

服务
The agent on each peer can serve on its own initiative and search intelligently.
每个节点的Agent提供主动服务和智能搜索功能。
招待
伺服

体育

发球：
发(球)：
发球

交通运输工程

卷起(绳索等)

宗教学

当助祭：
在…中任助祭

军事学

操作(机枪、火炮等)