| 单词 | serve |
| 释义 | serve (sɜːʳv ) Word forms: serves , serving , served 1. verb If you serve your country, an organization, or a person, you do useful work for them. It is unfair to soldiers who have served their country well for many years. [VERB noun] I have always said that I would serve the Party in any way it felt appropriate. [VERB noun] Synonyms: work for, help, aid, assist 2. verb 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. During the second world war he served with RAF Coastal Command. [VERB preposition/adverb] He also served on the National Front's national executive committee. [VERB preposition/adverb] For seven years until 1991 he served as a district councillor in Solihull. [VERB preposition/adverb] 3. verb If something serves as a particular thing or serves a particular purpose, it performs a particular function, which is often not its intended function. She ushered me into the front room, which served as her office. [V + as/for] I really do not think that an inquiry would serve any useful purpose. [VERB noun] Their brief visit has served to underline the deep differences between the two countries. [VERB to-infinitive] The old drawing room serves her as both sitting room and study. [V n + as/for] 4. verb If something serves people or an area, it provides them with something that they need. This could mean the closure of thousands of small businesses which serve the community. [VERB noun] ...improvements in the public water-supply system serving the Nairobi area. [VERB noun] Cuba is well served by motorways. [be VERB-ed + by] ...a desire to make education serve the needs of politicians and business. [VERB noun] 5. verb Something that serves someone's interests benefits them. The economy should be organized to serve the interests of all the people. [VERB noun] They may well decide that their interests would be best served by joining in. [VERB noun] 6. verb B1+ When you serve food and drink, you give people food and drink. Serve it with French bread. [VERB noun preposition] Serve the cakes warm. [VERB noun adjective] Prepare the garnishes shortly before you are ready to serve the soup. [VERB noun] ...the pleasure of having someone serve you champagne and caviar in bed. [VERB noun noun] They are expected to baby-sit, run errands, and help serve at cocktail parties. [VERB] Synonyms: present, provide, supply, deliver Serve up means the same as serve. After all, it is no use serving up TV dinners if the kids won't eat them. [VERB PARTICLE noun] He served it up on delicate white plates. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 7. verb [no cont] Serve is used to indicate how much food a recipe produces. For example, a recipe that serves six provides enough food for six people. Garnish with fresh herbs. Serves 4. [VERB noun] Synonyms: be enough for, be sufficient for, be adequate for, provide enough for 8. verb B1 Someone who serves customers in a shop or a bar helps them and provides them with what they want to buy. They wouldn't serve me in any pubs 'cos I looked too young. [VERB noun] Auntie and Uncle suggested she serve in the shop. [VERB] Synonyms: attend to, wait on, deal with, oblige 9. verb 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. [law] Immigration officers tried to serve her with a deportation order. [VERB noun + with] Police said they had been unable to serve a summons on 25-year-old Lee Jones. [VERB noun + on] Synonyms: deliver to, give to, present with, hand over to 10. verb If you serve something such as a prison sentence or an apprenticeship, you spend a period of time doing it. ...Leo, who is currently serving a life sentence for murder. [VERB noun] He was able to serve his apprenticeship as a trainer with Eddie Futch. [VERB noun] 11. verb When you serve in games such as tennis and badminton, you throw up the ball or shuttlecock and hit it to start play. He served 17 double faults. [VERB noun] If you serve like this nobody can beat you. [VERB] Serve is also a noun. His second serve clipped the net. 12. countable noun When you describe someone's serve, you are indicating how well or how fast they serve a ball or shuttlecock. His powerful serve was too much for the defending champion. 13. See also serving 14. serve sb right phrase 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. [feelings] Serves her right for being so stubborn. [+ for] Phrasal verbs: serve out phrasal verb If someone serves out their term of office, contract, or prison sentence, they do not leave before the end of the agreed period of time. The governor has declared his innocence and says he plans to serve out his term. [VERB PARTICLE noun] I was resigned to serving out the sentence. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] serve up serve [sense 6] Quotations: They also serve who only stand and waitSonnet 16 If you would be well served, serve yourself Idioms: serve two masters to be loyal to two opposing principles, beliefs, or organizations But there is something more fundamentally wrong: Sir Nicholas is expected to serve two masters: politics and the law. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: return a serve The receivers have three touches with any part of their body to return a serve. Times, Sunday Times You give points away easily if you fail to return a serve well. Times, Sunday Times To return his serve, players had to retreat to the back of the court. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The opposing player then attempts to return the serve by hitting it in the opposite direction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I returned his serve well and got a lot of free points on my first serve. The Sun He must serve that term plus 16 weeks after admitting animal cruelty. The Sun She was allowed by a judge to surrender at a future date to serve her term. Times, Sunday Times The prosecution has said that it will appeal against the sentence if the judge orders him to serve a term of less than eight years. Times, Sunday Times Due to old age and poor health, he was allowed to serve his term under house arrest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I'm ushered into the large, quiet room where he's sitting alone at an enormous table as a waiter serves him scrambled eggs. Times,Sunday Times Menus are one-use; you can no longer order - or hang out - at the bar; and a single waiter serves a particular section, chef de rang style, to minimise contact. Times,Sunday Times A waiter serves glasses of water and coffee in demitasses. Globe and Mail Translations: Chinese: 发球 tennis, 服务 Japanese: サーブ, 仕える |
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