Kiouni, also, must be disposed of. What should be done with the elephant, which had been so dearly purchased? Phileas Fogg had already determined this question. `Parsee,' said he to the guide, `you have been serviceable and devoted. I have paid for your service, but not for your devotion. Would you like to have this elephant? He is yours.'
The guide's eyes glistened. `Your honour is giving me a fortune!' cried he.英文原著 · 《AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS》
Vat shall we do wis him?' Ant Papa sayt, 'Me ton't know.' Zen Mamma sayt, 'Let us give him to town at Mister Schultzen's, and he may pea Schumacher,' ant my Vater sayt, 'Goot !' Six year ant seven mons livet I in town wis ze Mister Shoemaker, ant he loaft me. He sayt, 'Karl are one goot vorkman, ant shall soon become my Geselle.' Pot-man makes ze proposition, ant Got ze deposition. In ze year 1796 one conscription took place, ant each which vas serviceable, from ze eighteens to ze twenty-first year, hat to go to town.英文原著 · 《Boyhood》
I am, in like manner, inclined to believe that a monarch will always be able to convert legal practitioners into the most serviceable instruments of his authority. There is a far greater affinity between this class of individuals and the executive power than there is between them and the people; just as there is a greater natural affinity between the nobles and the monarch than between the nobles and the people, although the higher orders of society have occasionally resisted the prerogative of the Crown in concert with the lower classes.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
What is to be understood by the instruction of the American people - The human mind more superficially instructed in the United States than in Europe - No one completely uninstructed - Reason of this - Rapidity with which opinions are diffused even in the uncultivated States of the West - Practical experience more serviceable to the Americans than book-learning.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
"In a word, he labours to render us happy in relation to ourselves; agreeable and faithful to our friends; and discreet, serviceable, and well-bred in relation to those with whom we are obliged to live and to converse. To make his figures intelligible, to conduct his readers through the labyrinth of some perplexed sentence or obscure parenthesis, is no great matter; and, as Epictetus says, there is nothing of beauty in all this, or what is worthy of a prudent man. The principal business, and which is of most importance to us, is to show the use, the reason, and the proof of his precepts.英文原著 · 《Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry》
See the serviceable maps in Seebohm, Village Community, 86. But they seem to treat Yorkshire unfairly. It has 5.5 per cent of sokemen.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
Yeah, so if you could just please leave before I get angry And say something I will regret about your face, your height, Your personal hygiene or the fact that your science, While serviceable, lacks panache.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》