单词 | to serve a turn |
释义 | > as lemmasto serve a (also †such a, †that, etc.) turn (d) to serve a (also †such a, †that, etc.) turn: to serve a particular purpose. Now rare. ΚΠ 1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον ii. ii. f. 56v The vprightnes of their liuing was such, that the swoorde not being vsed, was eaten with rust, & nothing mete to serue that turne. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 10 It serueth other turnes beside. 1586 in Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. (1914) 117 The lord chauncellor should have a serjant at armes..and hathe none,..his gentleman ussher sarvethe that torne. a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1634) 17 All the fish in the Sea should be..little enough to serve such a turne. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 114 Changing a plain Reading against the Authority of three MSS,..purely to serve a turn. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) II. 328 Their very existence is mere hypothesis, trumped up to serve a turn. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 208 Those slanderers who had accused him of affecting zeal for religious liberty merely in order to serve a turn. 1942 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 24 Nov. 7/1 Knavery may serve a turn, but honesty is best in the end. < as lemmas |
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