搜尋結果
serve
- IPA[sərv]
美式
- perform duties or services for (another person or an organization);provide (an area or group of people) with a product or service
- (in tennis and other racket sports) an act of hitting the ball or shuttlecock to start play
verb: serve, 3rd person present: serves, gerund or present participle: serving, past tense: served, past participle: served
noun: serve, plural noun: serves
- 釋義
- 片語
動詞
- 1. perform duties or services for (another person or an organization) Malcolm has served the church very faithfully 同義詞
- ▪ provide (an area or group of people) with a product or service a telecommunications company that serves southern New England
- ▪ be employed as a member of the armed forces a military engineer who served with the army
- ▪ spend (a period) in office, in an apprenticeship, or in prison he is serving a ten-year jail sentence 同義詞
- 2. present (food or drink) to someone they serve wine instead of beer serve white wines chilled 同義詞
- ▪ present (someone) with food or drink Peter served them generous portions of soup I'll serve you with coffee and cake 同義詞
- ▪ (of food or drink) be enough for the recipe serves four people
- ▪ British attend to (a customer in a store) she turned to serve the impatient customer 同義詞
- ▪ supply (goods) to a customer.
- ▪ act as a server at the celebration of the Eucharist.
- ▪ archaic play (a trick) on (someone) I remember the trick you served me
- 3. deliver (a document such as a summons or writ) in a formal manner to the person to whom it is addressed he said his lawyer would serve a writ to the multinational corporation within a week a warrant was served on Jack Sherman
- ▪ deliver a document to (someone) in a formal manner they were just about to serve him with a writ when they served her a writ, she lit the fire with it 同義詞
- 4. be of use in achieving or satisfying this book will serve a useful purpose the union came into existence to serve the interests of musicians 同義詞
- ▪ be of some specified use sweat serves to cool down the body the island's one pub serves as a cafe by day 同義詞
- ▪ function for or treat (someone) in a specified way the strategy served him well 同義詞
- ▪ (of a male breeding-animal) copulate with (a female).
- 5. (in tennis and other racket sports) hit the ball or shuttlecock to begin play he tossed the ball up to serve serve the ball onto the front wall
- 6. bind (a rope) with thin cord to protect or strengthen it.
- 7. operate (a gun) before long Lodge was the only man in his section able to serve the guns
名詞
- 1. (in tennis and other racket sports) an act of hitting the ball or shuttlecock to start play he was let down by an erratic serve