| 单词 | to serve an apprenticeship | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto serve an apprenticeship (to)  a.  To complete (a fixed term of apprenticeship); to work (an apprenticeship, a period of apprenticeship) to a trade, master, etc. Later also in weakened sense: to work in a junior or less challenging role in preparation for a more senior or responsible position. Frequently in  to serve an apprenticeship (to).See also to serve (one's) time at  Phrases 8, to serve out 1 at  Phrasal verbs.extracted from servev.1  (a) transitive. literal. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > 			[verb (transitive)]		 > serve apprenticeship to serve an apprenticeship (to)1348 to serve forth1537 1348    in  C. Welch Hist. Pewterers of London 		(1902)	 I. 4  				Also that none of the crafte grete ne smale purloine othirs alowes ayenst thassente & wille of his first mastir afore he haue fulli serued his terme. c1450						 (c1400)						    Bk. Vices & Virtues 		(Huntington)	 		(1942)	 29 (MED)  				Who-so..ne serueþ nouȝt his terme, he lest his hure. 1562    in  W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. 		(1880)	 293  				He served his apprentycehode. 1621    Abstr. Grieuances Poor Free-men 		(single sheet)	  				The lawes of the kingdome authorise all persons, that haue serued an Apprentiship.., lawfully to set vp and vse that trade. 1668    C. Bee Ans. Mr. Poole's Second Vindic. 2  				Mr. Poole has served an Apprenticeship to the Trade (as every Bookseller should). 1739    Proc. Court of Hustings Liverymen of London 30  				Those who have served no Apprenticeships, and who undersell the Free Trader. 1798    in  T. J. Howell Compl. Coll. State Trials 		(1819)	 XXVI. 1065  				I served four years to Mr. Latouche of Marley. To what business?—A gardener. 1864    Temple Bar Apr. 36  				The waiters were..mostly sons of other hotel-keepers serving an apprenticeship. 1916    Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers 51 403  				He began to serve his apprenticeship in the year 1856 at the Hetton Collieries. 1971    Washington Post 3 Oct.  d14/3  				After serving four years as an apprentice, he founded his own [printed won] printing shop. 2007    Independent 20 Feb. 34/3  				He served a voluntary apprenticeship to museum work in the Fitzwilliam.  (b) transitive. figurative or in figurative context. ΚΠ 1597    W. Shakespeare Richard II  i. iii. 256 + 4  				Must I not serue a long apprentishood, To forreine  passages.       View more context for this quotation 1603    T. Dekker et al.  Patient Grissill sig. H3  				When a quarrell enters into a trade it serues seauen yeares before it be free. 1693    Humours & Conversat. Town 107  				Some old nonsensical Translations which have serv'd a Patriarch's age to the Library of Moore-fields. 1768    L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 72  				Had I served seven years apprenticeship to good breeding, I could not have done as much. 1837    T. Carlyle French Revol. I.  iv. iii. 186  				Or shall we say: Insurrection has now served its Apprenticeship. 1946    H. Read Grass Roots of Art iv. 92  				Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. 2012    K. Dutton Wisdom of Psychopaths iii. 94  				Tit for tat—a mantra that had undoubtedly served its apprenticeship in the ranks of the lower animals before we got our hands on it. < as lemmas | 
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