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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed it is Julia Mills, peevish andfine, with a black man to carry cards and letters to her on a goldensalver, and a copper-coloured woman in linen, with a brighthandkerchief round her head, to serve her Tiffin in her dressing-room.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This would soon have led to something better, of course,' was her consoling reflection; 'any thing interests between those who love; and any thing will serve as introduction to what is near the heart.
-- Natural enough! his own mind full of intrigue, that he should suspect it in others. Mystery; Finesse how they pervert the understanding!My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the end of the day drew on, and he found himself not hired, Gabriel almost wished that he had joined them, and gone off to serve his country.
-- I don't yet know my powers or my talents in farming; but I shall do my best, and if you serve me well, so shall I serve you.
-- Bathsheba looked full of gratitude, and she said: "Oh, Gabriel, how could you serve me so unkindly!"
-- Of these eight carved protuberances only two at this time continued to serve the purpose of their erection that of spouting the water from the lead roof within.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sylvie, the stout cook, hearing her mistress' shuffling footsteps, hastened to serve the lodgers' breakfasts.
-- Michonneau, and Poiret came downstairs together; possibly the scent of the gravy which Sylvie was making to serve with the mutton had announced breakfast.
-- What power there must be in the petitions put up by such hearts; how pure the fervor that bears their souls to Heaven in prayer!What exquisite joy they would find in self-sacrifice!What a pang for his mother's heart if she could not send him all that he asked for!And this noble affection, these sacrifices made at such terrible cost, were to serve as the ladder by which he meant to climb to Delphine de Nucingen.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shut up, as well as I could, in my own heart the anxiety that preyed there and entered with seeming earnestness into the plans of my father, although they might only serve as the decorations of my tragedy.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It will serve you right if that sly piece does accept one of you," she said.
-- Mr. Wilkes always had at least a dozen darkies busy running back and forth withtrays to serve the guests.
-- No one can wish to serve our Cause more than I, and I wish mydaughters to feel the same way, but to disgrace " There was more in the same vein but Scarlett did not finish it.
-- Draw water, serve food, lay pillows on the frontporch, bind wounds, hold the dirty heads of the dying.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there my sister became so excited by the twenty-five guineas, that nothing would serve her but we must have a dinner out of that windfall at the Blue Boar, and that Pumblechook must go over in his chaise-cart, and bring the Hubbles and Mr. Wopsle.
-- He faintly moaned, "I am done for," as the victim, and he barbarously bellowed, "I'll serve you out," as the murderer.
-- He actually seemed to serve as a zest to Mr. Jaggers's wine.
-- I am very desirous to serve a friend."
-- Serve a friend with it, and you may know the end of it too,--but it's a less pleasant and profitable end."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently the bird came in and wanted to serve up the dinner, but he could nowhere see the cook.
-- 'Yes, sir, I will soon serve up,' answered Gretel.
-- 'Yes,' said she, 'he has taken the chickens which I was just going to serve up, off the dish, and has run away with them!'
-- Meanwhile the miser crept out of the bush half-naked and in a piteous plight, and began to ponder how he should take his revenge, and serve his late companion some trick.
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