serve是什么意思？

When it's time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.

He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.

Eggs serve as an enduring symbol of new life.

The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.

Much of the criticism is directed at the British Airports Authority, which runs seven major airports, including the three main ones serving in London.

In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.

He runs a pub that serves excellent beer.

They backslide after serving their terms in prison.

In all, more than 45,000 laws and rules serve to exclude vast numbers of people from fully participating in American life.

We need to continue to value broad preparation in thinking skills that will serve for a lifetime.

They don't just feed the home they serve.

The traditional textbook merely serves as a skeleton.

For those who have suffered failures in business, Steve Jobs's life experience serves as.

There is, in our view, no real dispute here, we are all seeking the same thing, which is schools that better serve our children and our nation by encouraging students to tackle tough subjects under the guidance of gifted teachers.

Andrew's runs a food pantry(食品堂)that serves the city and several of the surrounding towns.

Donna Fredrick's served with the Peace Corps for two years in Brazil.

Miss, can I interest you in a pork special with serving tonight?

Em, I always serve the freshest possible food and I make the atmosphere as comfortable and as pleasant as I can, so that my customers will want to come back.

A search is now under way to confirm the suspected existence of particles of matter that move at a speed greater than light, and therefore, might serve as our passports to the past

What does the speaker suggest you do when you are not served properly at a restaurant?

The menu rule only applies to restaurants that serve standardised portion sizes and have fifteen or more locations nationwide.

The Olympic suffered two crashes with other ships and went on to serve as a hospital ship and troop transport in World War I.

If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.

In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.

Furthermore, the issue is not just how the team can function more effectively, but how it integrates with the overall organization, or society that it supposes it serves.

Still, at the most selective schools, where thousands of candidates may submit identically high grades and test scores, a marginal item like the essay may serve as a tie-breaker between two equally qualified candidates.

They will serve as modem Magellans, mapping out the solar system for whatever explorers follow, whether man or machine

My grandfather served in World War II, and I hope to be just like him someday.

Smith's book serves as an excellent introduction to a vast subject, and will suggest plenty of further

It serves as a guide to arts and commerce

Corporations in Germany realized that there was an interest to be served economically and patriotically in building up a skilled labor force at home; we never had that ethos (风气)," says Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist who has written about the connection of craft and culture.

The plant's carbon-capture technologies would serve as a pilot project for other new coal-burning plants.

Google claims its plan for the world's biggest online library is to serve the interest of the general public.

to serve the interest of the general public

We think it serves them right for being mean to other people.

Esperanto is an artificial language, designed to serve internationally as an auxiliary means of communication among speakers of different languages.

Basically we turned our skin darker to serve as a natural sun protector in the place of the hair we lost.

Le Bohec said:"The plight of the king penguin should serve as a warning about the future of the entire marine environment in the Antarctic."

Robots capable of social engagement help with loneliness as well as cognitive functioning, but the robot itself doesn't have to engage directly—it can serve as an intermediary for human communication.