serve是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to provide food or drinks -- 提供（食物或飲料）

  • Do they serve meals in the bar? 這家酒吧提供飯菜嗎？

  • Breakfast is served in the restaurant between 7.00 and 11.00. 餐廳早上七點到十一點供應早餐。

  • We arrived at the hotel and were served with champagne and canapés. 我們到達旅館後，旅館提供了香檳和小吃。

  • All recipes in this book, unless otherwise stated, will serve (= be enough for) four to five people. 本書裡的所有食譜，除了特別標明的，都可供四至五人享用。

  • [ + obj + adj ] Serve the pie warm with ice cream or whipped cream. 趁熱上果餡糕點，配上霜淇凌或生奶油。

• 1 to work for; to do your duty to -- （爲…）工作；（爲…）服務；盡職責

  • He served in the army for 22 years. 他服了22年兵役。

  • She has served on the committee for the last 15 years. 15年來，她一直在該委員會任職。

  • He served under Ronald Reagan as Secretary of State. 他在隆納‧雷根手下擔任國務卿。

• 2 to help achieve something or to be useful as something -- 有助於實現；（對…）有用

  • An official investigation would not serve any useful purpose. 正式調查不會達到任何有益的成效。

  • The judge said that the fine would serve as a warning to other drivers. 法官說此次罰款對其他司機會是一種警告。

  • In the absence of anything better the settee could serve as a bed for a couple of nights. 如果沒有更好的選擇，長沙發可以當幾天床用。

  • [ + to infinitive ] Nothing serves to explain the violent fighting we have seen recently. 甚麼都無法解釋我們最近所目睹的暴力毆鬥。

  • old-fashioned My umbrella will serve for a weapon. 我的傘可以當武器用。

• 3 to provide with something that is needed -- 爲…提供所需物品，供應

  • The report says the police are out of touch with the communities that they serve. 這份報告指出，警方對他們所服務的社區毫無了解。

• 4 in a shop, restaurant, or hotel, to deal with a customer by taking their order, showing or selling them goods, etc. -- 接待；招待；爲…服務

  • UK Are you being served, madam? 女士，有服務員招待您嗎？

  • US Have you been served, ma'am? 女士，有服務員招待過您了嗎？

  • That's the restaurant where they refused to serve John because he was so rude. 就是那家餐館拒絕接待約翰，因爲他太粗魯。

• 5 to spend a period of time doing something -- 花費，度過（一段時間）

  • He served four years in prison for robbery. 他因搶劫坐了四年牢。

  • After he'd served his apprenticeship he set up his own business. 他學徒期滿後自立門戶。

  • He's serving time for drug offences. 他因毒品犯罪正在服刑。

• 6 in sports such as tennis, to hit the ball to the other player as a way of starting the game -- （在網球等體育運動中）發（球）

  • Whose turn is it to serve? 輪到誰發球了？

  • That's the third ace you've served this game. 那是你在這局比賽中第三次發球得分。

• 7 to give a legal document to someone, demanding that they go to a law court or that they obey an order -- 將…正式送達

  • Less than two weeks ago Gough finally served a writ on Slater, claiming damages for alleged loss of royalties. 不到兩個星期以前，高夫終於將傳票送達給斯萊特，要求對其所涉及的版稅損失作出賠償。

  • Each person served with a summons will be given six weeks before they have to appear in the Magistrates' Court. 每一個收到傳票的人在地方法院出庭之前都有六個星期的時間。

• 8 in sports such as tennis, the act of hitting the ball to the other player to start play -- （在網球等體育運動中）發（球）

  • It's your serve. 該你發球了。

  • Murray broke Federer's serve (= he won a game in which Federer hit the ball first). 穆雷破了費德勒的發球局。