serve：招待，供应；为 … 服务；对 … 有用；可作 … 用 vi. 服役，服务； 适合，足够；发球；招待，侍候 n. 发球，轮到发球 n. (Serve) 人名； 语料库共检中 7,114 条：美剧 759 · 电影 217 · 原著 5000 · 演讲 1138
真实语境例句（按库分组，共 18 条展示）
If he could only know this lady, he would serve and obey her with all benignity; but if his destiny were otherwise, he would gladly love and serve his lady, whosoever she might be. He called on Venus for help to possess his queen and heart's life, and vowed daily war with Diana: "that goddess chaste I keepen [care] in no wise to serve; a fig for all her chastity!" Then he rose and went his way, passing by a rich and beautiful shrine, which, Philobone informed him, was the sepulchre of Pity. "A tender creature," she said,英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
Accordingly, the reviving of the dead in those revolutions served the purpose of glorifying the new struggles, not of parodying the old; it served the purpose of exaggerating to the imagination the given task, not to recoil before its practical solution; it served the purpose of rekindling the revolutionary spirit, not to trot out its ghost.英文原著 · 《The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte》
Without reward the flower serves the bee. The mother serves the child with pain and toil. The soldier serves his king without king's gratitutde. And this person has noted with much private amusement, How, since this one service rendered, Bill Hawkins goes ever from his accustomed path To add service to service to the one he rescued; While the rescued one looks ever upon Bill Hawkins With eyes of no-approval, indeed, with intense disgust.英文原著 · 《The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse》
"You have attended mistresses of other ways than mine," her lady said in her slow, clear voice, which seemed to cut as knives do. "Some fool and madman has bribed you to serve him. You cannot serve me also. Come hither and put this in the fire. If 'twere to be done I would make you hold it in the live coals with your hand."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"And now you've lost her," she cried wildly; "and some other school will get her and her money; and if she were like any other child she'd tell how she's been treated, and all our pupils would be taken away and we should be ruined. And it serves us right; but it serves you right more than it does me, for you are a hard woman, Maria Minchin, you're a hard, selfish, worldly woman!"英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
"Asking your pardon, sir, he has the best room. I would have given him mine if I had had but one; I could have slept in the stable. A man who has suffered as he has, who teaches my kids to read, a general, an Egyptian, the first lieutenant I ever served under--What do you think? --Of us all, he is best served. I shared what I had with him. Unfortunately, it is not much to boast of--bread, milk, eggs. Well, well; it's neighbors' fare, sir. And he is heartily welcome.--But he has hurt our feelings."英文原著 · 《Colonel Chabert》
But I'm not gonna serve the lasagna. I'm gonna serve something that I make.美剧 · 《Friends》
- Serve the ball, chump. - "Serve the ball, chump."美剧 · 《Friends》
- Serve the ball, chump. - "Serve the ball, chump." Okay, better comebacks, Mike. Better comebacks.美剧 · 《Friends》
The only way for us to serve you is to give you the means to serve yourselves.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
And they're all ready to serve you at an hour's notice with an excellent meal and they're all ready to serve you at an hour's notice with an excellent meal演讲 · 《When ideas have sex ~ Matt Ridley》