单词 | to serve one's country |
释义 | > as lemmasto serve one's country P4. to serve one's country (and variants): to do useful service to or on behalf of one's country; to do work that is in the national interest; esp. to perform military service. Cf. sense 8, 16. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > serve [verb (intransitive)] > serve one's country to serve one's country1531 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxiv. sig. h.iiijv Our wittes may be amended, & our personages be more apte to serue our publike weale and our prince. 1538 R. Morison tr. J. Sturm Epist. Cardynalles sig. Cv Our forefathers dyd institute this monkysshe lyfe, bycause they wolde haue men holy, lerned, fytte to serue their countrey. 1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. iii. sig. D1 He serued his country for his countries sake. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 564 To what can I be useful, wherein serve My Nation . View more context for this quotation 1738 tr. J. Butler Memoirs 183 Tho' she had given the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland to another, yet I thought myself recompensed in having served my Country. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 794 He burns with most intense and flagrant zeal To serve his country. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. vi. 322 War-Minister Narbonne,..threatens,..to ‘take his sword’,..and go serve his country with that. 1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art Add. 196 A labourer serves his country with his spade, just as a man in the middle ranks of life serves it with his sword, pen, or lancet. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 466 Those who serve their country ought to serve without receiving gifts. 1960 News Chron. 19 Feb. 3/4 He had joined the Germans only to get to Britain and there serve his country. 2012 Quality of Life Res. 21 1858/1 The pride many servicemen take in serving their country may also increase their satisfaction with life. < as lemmas |
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