serve是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 服务， 尽责； 招待， 侍候； 符合， 适用，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Serve him right.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tide will serve pretty nicely at about two in the af-ternoon, sir.
-- We men of business, who serve a House, are not our own masters.
-- 'Since the state of your mind that you describe, is, at all events, attributable to some influence of mine this is what I mean, if I can make it plain can I use no influence to serve you?
-- No man ever can have been more desirous in his heart to serve a friend, than I am to serve mine, if I knew how.
-- 321XXIII Fire Rises here was a change on the village where the fountain Tfell, and where the mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the highway such morsels of bread as might serve for patches to hold his poor igno-rant soul and his poor reduced body together.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't you see how men and animals are forced to serve her; how well she gets through the world barefooted?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How does it serve you right?
-- But to be a town councilor and discuss how many dustmen are needed, and how chimneys shall be constructed in the town in which I don't live--to serve on a jury and try a peasant who's stolen a flitch of bacon, and listen for six hours at a stretch to all sorts of jabber from the counsel for the defense and the prosecution, and the president cross-examining my old half-witted Alioshka, 'Do you admit, prisoner in the dock, the fact of the removal of the bacon?'
-- "And why cannot anyone else so serve God and be taken alive to heaven?"
-- Vronsky appreciated this desire not only to please, but to serve him, which had become the sole aim of her existence, but at the same time he wearied of the loving snares in which she tried to hold him fast.
-- In the wealthy Kashinsky province, which always took the lead of other provinces in everything, there was now such a preponderance of forces that this policy, once carried through properly there, might serve as a model for other provinces for all Russia.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A single domestic sufficed to serve him.
-- Fix still nourished hopes that the robber would not, after all, leave the two thousand pounds behind him, but would decide to serve out his week in jail, and issued forth on Mr. Fogg's traces.
-- "I already have two who are obedient and faithful, have never left me, and serve me for their nourishment and here they are," added he, holding out his two robust arms, furrowed with veins as large as the strings of a bass-viol.
-- None of the other steamers were able to serve his projects.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We like to make money, if we can do it honestly, but our chief purpose is to serve mankind.
-- And when I read a poem with such originality and swing, when I find a genu-ine vest-pocket masterpiece like this, then I realize that I'm not a poet at all, no matter how much my jingles may serve to jazz up the Cause of Health.
-- He was not a nice man; he had beaten Inchcape Jones at tennis, with a nasty, unsporting serve--the sort of serve you'd expect from an American.
-- When it was whispered that a man had died of something which might be plague, George William announced to his court that if it were true, it would serve Kellett the Red Leg jolly well right.
-- In that week, using a score of workmen from the most immaculate and elaborate scientific supply-house in the country, she had created for him the best bacteriological laboratory he had ever seen--white-tile floor and enameled brick walls, ice-box and incubator, glassware and stains and microscope, a perfect constant- temperature bath--and a technician, trained in Lister and Rockefeller, who had his bedroom behind the laboratory and who announced his readiness to serve Dr. Arrowsmith day or night.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now he had the right to devote his life to them, to serve them芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If ever I can do anything to serve the poor betrayed girl, I will do itfaithfully, please Heaven!And Littimer had better have abloodhound at his back, than little Mowcher!'
-- In fact, my dear Copperfield, Ihave entered into arrangements, by virtue of which I standpledged and contracted to our friend, Heep, to assist and serve himin the capacity of- and to be- his confidential clerk.'
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