英语词汇“what serves ——?”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

f. intransitive. Without construction. To be of use, to be acceptable, to prove satisfactory. Often in negative constructions, or in rhetorical questions, such as what serves ——?, ‘what is the use of ——?’

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c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 331 What serueȝ tresor, bot gareȝ men grete When he hit schal efte wyth teneȝ tyne?

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2374 Quat seruyd all þai sapient or sleȝt of batall?

1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. Ciii Nother of them both that hath wyt nor grace To perceyue that both myllys may serue in place.

1573 G. Gascoigne tr. Ariosto Supposes i. ii, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 5 But this lighte serueth not very well, I will beholde it an other day, when the ayre is clearer.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xxx. ix What serves, alas, the blood of me When I with in the pitt doe bide?

1628 A. Leighton Appeal to Parl. 186 In this case, the whiting, daubing, or palliating will not serve.

1693 Reply to Reflector i. 4 What serves this Distinction, but to insinuate, that those..are not Persons of Worth?

1786 R. Burns Poems 198 If honest Nature made you fools, What sairs your Grammars?

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §209 It makes however excellent water mortar,..and will very well serve in those parts of the kingdom.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 343 If the manganese that has been once used, be exposed for some time to the air, it will serve again.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury liii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 312 When no evasion Served—for the cunning one his match had found.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. x. 389 Barricading serves not.

1868 C. M. Yonge Chaplet of Pearls II. xxxvii. 167 Prithee, brother, do not thus! What serves such passion?

2013 B. C. Smith in M. Baghramian D. Davidson xxiii. 203 Wittgenstein tells us which explanations won't serve.

单词	what serves ——?
释义	> as lemmas what serves ——? f. intransitive. Without construction. To be of use, to be acceptable, to prove satisfactory. Often in negative constructions, or in rhetorical questions, such as what serves ——?, ‘what is the use of ——?’ ΚΠ c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 331 What serueȝ tresor, bot gareȝ men grete When he hit schal efte wyth teneȝ tyne? c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2374 Quat seruyd all þai sapient or sleȝt of batall? 1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. Ciii Nother of them both that hath wyt nor grace To perceyue that both myllys may serue in place. 1573 G. Gascoigne tr. Ariosto Supposes i. ii, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 5 But this lighte serueth not very well, I will beholde it an other day, when the ayre is clearer. a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xxx. ix What serves, alas, the blood of me When I with in the pitt doe bide? 1628 A. Leighton Appeal to Parl. 186 In this case, the whiting, daubing, or palliating will not serve. 1693 Reply to Reflector i. 4 What serves this Distinction, but to insinuate, that those..are not Persons of Worth? 1786 R. Burns Poems 198 If honest Nature made you fools, What sairs your Grammars? 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §209 It makes however excellent water mortar,..and will very well serve in those parts of the kingdom. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 343 If the manganese that has been once used, be exposed for some time to the air, it will serve again. a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury liii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 312 When no evasion Served—for the cunning one his match had found. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. x. 389 Barricading serves not. 1868 C. M. Yonge Chaplet of Pearls II. xxxvii. 167 Prithee, brother, do not thus! What serves such passion? 2013 B. C. Smith in M. Baghramian D. Davidson xxiii. 203 Wittgenstein tells us which explanations won't serve. extracted from servev.¹ < as lemmas
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