| 单词 | service |
| 释义 | service (sɜːʳvɪs ) Word forms: services , servicing , serviced language note: For meaning [sense 14], services is both the singular and the plural form. 1. countable noun B1 A service is something that the public needs, such as transport, communications facilities, hospitals, or energy supplies, which is provided in a planned and organized way by the government or an official body. Britain still boasts the cheapest postal service. We have started a campaign for better nursery and school services. The authorities have said they will attempt to maintain essential services. 2. countable noun [oft in names] B2 You can sometimes refer to an organization or private company as a particular service when it provides something for the public or acts on behalf of the government. ...the BBC World Service. ...Careers Advisory Services. 3. countable noun B1+ If an organization or company provides a particular service, they can do a particular job or a type of work for you. The kitchen maintains a twenty-four-hour service and can be contacted via Reception. The larger firm was capable of providing a better range of services. 4. plural noun B2 Services are activities such as tourism, banking, and selling things which are part of a country's economy, but are not concerned with producing or manufacturing goods. Mining rose by 9.1%, manufacturing by 9.4% and services by 4.3%. ...the doctrine that a highly developed service sector was the sign of a modern economy. 5. uncountable noun B1+ The level or standard of service provided by an organization or company is the amount or quality of the work it can do for you. Taking risks is the only way employees can provide effective and efficient customer service. The current level of service will be maintained during the holidays. 6. countable noun [usually noun NOUN] B1 A bus or train service is a route or regular journey that is part of a transport system. A bus service operates between Bolton and Salford. 7. plural noun [with poss] Your services are the things that you do or the skills that you use in your job, which other people find useful and are usually willing to pay you for. I have obtained the services of a top photographer to take our pictures. [+ of] The performers have all offered their services free of charge. 8. uncountable noun If you refer to someone's service or services to a particular organization or activity, you mean that they have done a lot of work for it or spent a lot of their time on it. You've given a lifetime of service to athletics. [+ to] More than half his long service in parliament has been as a cabinet minister. ...the two policemen, who have a total of 31 years' service between them. He was awarded the OBE in 1990 for services to fashion. 9. countable noun [usually plural] The Services are the army, the navy, and the air force. In June 1945, Britain still had forty-five per cent of its workforce in the Services and munitions industries. 10. uncountable noun Service is the work done by people or equipment in the army, navy, or air force, for example during a war. The regiment was recruited from the Highlands specifically for service in India. ...an aircraft carrier that saw service in World War II. 11. uncountable noun B1+ When you receive service in a restaurant, hotel, or shop, an employee asks you what you want or gives you what you have ordered. Bill was £68 including service and a couple of bar drinks and wine. ...clean stores with respectful service and fair prices. Synonyms: waiting, attendance, serving of food, waiters or waitresses 12. countable noun B2 A service is a religious ceremony that takes place in a church. After the hour-long service, his body was taken to a cemetery in the south of the city. ...the church in which the President was attending morning service. Synonyms: ceremony, ritual, worship, rite 13. countable noun [usually noun NOUN] A dinner service or a tea service is a complete set of plates, cups, saucers, and other pieces of china. ...a 60-piece dinner service. 14. countable noun A services is a place beside a motorway where you can buy petrol and other things, or have a meal. [British] They had to pull up, possibly go to a motorway services or somewhere like that. We have repeatedly told planners that services are vital on a motorway. 15. countable noun [oft with poss] In tennis, badminton, and some other sports, when it is your service, it is your turn to serve. She conceded just three points on her service during the first set. 16. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Service is used to describe the parts of a building or structure that are used by the staff who clean, repair, or look after it, and are not usually used by the public. He wheeled the trolley down the corridor and disappeared with it into the service lift. ...the bigger tunnels, which run either side of the service tunnel. 17. uncountable noun [oft in/into N] If someone is in service, they are working as a servant. If a young woman did not have a dowry, she went into domestic service. Synonyms: work, labour, employment, business 18. verb If you have a vehicle or machine serviced, you arrange for someone to examine, adjust, and clean it so that it will keep working efficiently and safely. I had my car serviced at the local garage. [have noun VERB-ed] Make sure that all gas fires and central heating boilers are serviced annually. [be VERB-ed] Synonyms: overhaul, check, maintain, tune (up) Service is also a noun. The car needs a service. The company sends a service engineer to fix the disk drive before it fails. 19. verb If a country or organization services its debts, it pays the interest on them. Almost a quarter of the country's export earnings go to service a foreign debt of $29 billion. [VERB noun] Synonyms: pay off, clear, settle, square 20. verb If someone or something services an organization, a project, or a group of people, they provide it with the things that it needs in order to function properly or effectively. There are now 400 staff at headquarters, servicing our regional work. [VERB noun] Fossil fuels such as oil and gas will service our needs for some considerable time to come. [VERB noun] 21. See also active service, Civil Service, community service, emergency services, in-service, National Health Service, national service, public service, room service 22. at the service of phrase To be at the service of a person or organization means to be available to help or be used by that person or organization. The intellectual and moral potential of the world's culture must be put at the service of politics. 23. at your service convention You can use 'at your service' after your name as a formal way of introducing yourself to someone and saying that you are willing to help them in any way you can. [formulae] She bowed dramatically. 'Anastasia Krupnik, at your service,' she said. 24. do someone a service phrase If you do someone a service, you do something that helps or benefits them. You are doing me a great service, and I'm very grateful to you. Honours should only go to people who have done a service to their country. 25. in service / out of service phrase If a piece of equipment or type of vehicle is in service, it is being used or is able to be used. If it is out of service, it is not being used, usually because it is not working properly. Cuts in funding have meant that equipment has been kept in service longer. In 1882, London's first electric tram cars went into service. Some two hundred obsolete warships have been taken out of service during the past five years. 26. of service phrase If someone or something is of service to you, they help you or are useful to you. That is, after all, the primary reason we live–to be of service to others. 27. to be pressed into service phrase [VERB inflects] To press someone or something into service means to use them temporarily for a particular purpose. The local bar has been pressed into service as a school. Kenny had been pressed into service to guard the door. Idioms: pay lip service to something or give lip service to something to appear to be in favour of an idea without doing anything to support it These agreements give lip service to money going back to the people. But there is not even a formula for how it would be determined. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: legal services So just who is going to be providing these new forms of legal services - especially under the alternative business structures model? Times, Sunday Times (2009) The way companies use legal services is changing. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The demand for legal services is high. Christianity Today (2000) Now normal service has been resumed. The Sun (2008) The airline said it hopes to resume a normal service from its hub at Heathrow by the weekend. Times, Sunday Times (2010) We will keep working flat out until our normal service is restored. Times, Sunday Times (2013) It is time for a second generation of online legal services in the UK - sound sources of legal help when otherwise none would be affordable. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Morrisons has no online delivery service, meaning it is missing out on a 6 billion sector. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Many spread betting firms offer trading diaries as part of their online services. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Shoppers will no longer have to put up with poor service or wait 10 weeks for a sofa to be delivered. Times, Sunday Times (2006) That's just poor service. The Sun (2012) Officials feared punters would face rising prices and poorer service with the deal. The Sun (2009) Ask the homeowner if there's a good garage nearby to get your car serviced. The Sun (2012) I had the car serviced independently for 166 but was told that only dealers could reset the computer. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Other key gripes are substandard car servicing, builders and upholstery work. The Sun (2015) Here, the repair ship established an advance service unit to provide food, oil, and water to the ships of the occupation force based there. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The hospital has a capacity of 1050 inpatients served at 47 service units, 58-bed intense-care unit and 17-bed emergency unit. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The service unit also contained a number of innovations for occupants. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It also plans to spin off its business services unit into a separate listed company. Times, Sunday Times A new police and intelligence services unit will look at radical groups and try to identify those falling under their influence. Times, Sunday Times Orders through its business account service are up 16 per cent. The Sun It said that it also continued to invest in trying to win market share, by enhancing its major corporate account service and developing its technology systems. Times, Sunday Times Many banks and financial institutions offer a sweep account service for personal customers and small business owners. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 First, while servicing an account, the product or service provider may hear of an additional need, unrelated to the first, that the client has and offer to meet it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In addition to the usual current account services, it offers commission-free foreign currency and non-sterling travellers' cheques. Times, Sunday Times The contents are replete with sample letters, planning calendars, a talent and interest survey, service commitment forms, and a full-scale worker enlistment program. Christianity Today We conclude by asking everyone to fill out a ministry service commitment for the coming year. Christianity Today More than 200 million had been earmarked to achieve the universal service commitment. Times, Sunday Times When told he would have to give up baseball because of a service commitment following graduation, he turned down the appointment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Student naval aviators incur an eight-year active duty service commitment that begins after they complete flight training. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It spent the next decades becoming a leading service company to the shipping industry. Times, Sunday Times (2010) By contrast, an individual paid through a service company pays corporation tax of as little as 20%. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The original documents he filed with the stock exchange said he wanted to build a multinational service company. Times, Sunday Times (2007) I hate being referred to as a patient, a service user. Times, Sunday Times Yet while simple solutions remain elusive, the voices of the service user or patient increasingly humanise what we do. Times, Sunday Times Traditional hot deliveries are cooked in a central kitchen then transported to the service user. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Constant visual observations have been criticised by many service user groups. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Once this happens the experience for the service user will obviously become one of not being listened to. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Six companies in the sector gave a warning, as did four computer and software service companies. Times, Sunday Times All of the products listed above are currently produced by software service companies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Interrupts were serviced by software service routines, which could specify whether they themselves could be interrupted (achieving interrupt nesting). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By combining a web-based software service with software installed on the host computer, transmissions could be passed through highly restrictive firewalls. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Additionally, the company offers a software service system to allow venue owners to control and manage the wireless power network they had installed - consists of charging spots and a gateway. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If you think you will be watching more than seven matches a month, you will be better off with a subscription service. Times, Sunday Times A film subscription service priced at 4.99 a month will also be on offer. Times, Sunday Times Why not try doing a weekly flower subscription service? Times,Sunday Times Well, he supplied one big idea: a bespoke book subscription service. Times,Sunday Times It already offers a paid-for music subscription service. Times, Sunday Times The body said that "draconian cuts in support services "will inevitably lead to deterioration in service, which can be avoided if CIOs spend wisely. Computing (2010) A relatively new charity with a mental health support service. Times, Sunday Times (2016) However, it has been found out that students have several academical, social and educational support service problems. 2016, 'The Fulfilment Level of Turkic Republics Higher Education Students' Academic and Social Expectations in Turkey', Yükseköğretim ve Bilim Dergisi Politicians are extremely nervous of appearing to cut a universal service, while householders are suspicious of their intentions. Times, Sunday Times It also warned the oneprice-goes-everywhere 'universal service' remains loss-making. The Sun A universal service has been guaranteed by strong regulation. Times, Sunday Times The increases were necessary for it to provide a universal service, it said. Times,Sunday Times The universal service should be protected as a basic service and a matter of national pride. Times, Sunday Times But it can also be a valuable service to all. Christianity Today The companies argue that they provide a valuable service to customers outside the traditional lending system, keeping them from the clutches of loan sharks. Times, Sunday Times For decades, the knowledge was a hard-won qualification for the driver and a valuable service to the customer. Times, Sunday Times The result will be widespread misery in isolated areas where a great number of people will be deprived of a valuable service. Times, Sunday Times Did the film council provide a valuable service? Times, Sunday Times The report also calls for the statutory nature of the youth service to be reinstated and for proper funding. Times, Sunday Times They were really good at the youth service. Times, Sunday Times A survey a few years ago by a youth service asked its young people what their priority was. Times, Sunday Times But as youth service budgets remain a fraction of what they were, councils look to charities and philanthropists to plug gaps. Times,Sunday Times Soon after, a raid took place on the specialist youth service where the researcher was based, which resulted in case files being removed and computer records being wiped. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 服务, 技术维修, 员工专用的 Japanese: サービス, サービスを提供する, 業務用の |
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