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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 268 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE BLUE LIGHT here was once upon a time a soldier who for many Tyears had served the king faithfully, but when the war came to an end could serve no longer because of the many wounds which he had received.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The author's offers to serve the emperor in his wars.
-- She said, her papa and mamma had promised that Grildrig should be hers; but now she found they meant to serve her as they did last year, when they pretended to give her a lamb, and yet, as soon as it was fat, sold it to a butcher.
-- The queen commanded her own cabinet-maker to contrive a box, that might serve me for a bedchamber, after the model that Glumdalclitch and I should agree upon.
-- Another great advantage proposed by this invention was, that it would serve as a universal language, to be understood in all civilised nations, whose goods and utensils are gener-ally of the same kind, or nearly resembling, so that their uses might easily be comprehended.
-- For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sen-tence to the end; and by this defect, they are deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be 269capable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Serve 'em right,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'for being idle.'
-- 'Of course, they will be punished with the utmost rigour of the law, as notice-boards observe,' replied James Harthouse, 'and serve them right.
-- You have your gentleman-friends, you know, and they'll serve you with as much of the article as you want.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We still continued to follow the gallery of lava, a perfect natural pathway, as easy of descent as some of those inclined planes which, in very old German houses, serve the purpose of staircases.
-- It will, of course, naturally follow in our track, and will serve to guide and refresh us."
-- The Icelander went back to the raft, and soon returned with a huge crowbar, with which he began to dig a hole in the rock, which was to serve as a mine.
-- He had undertaken to serve a certain man at so much per week, and no matter what evils befell his employer or himself, he never found fault or grumbled, so long as his wages were duly paid.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The turnkey had strong private opinions as to what would become of poor Tip, and had even gone so far with the view of averting their fulfilment, as to sound Tip in reference to the expediency of running away and going to serve his country.
-- Nothing would serve Maggy but that they must stop at a grocer's window, short of their destination, for her to show her learning.
-- The gate was so familiar, and so like a companion, that they put down Maggy's basket in a corner to serve for a seat, and keeping close together, rested there for some time.
-- Desiring to serve young person, name of Dorrit,' said Pancks, with his forefinger still up as a caution.
-- He wished to do anything as laid in his power to serve Miss Dorrit, altogether putting himself out of sight; and he hoped he did.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If Marmee shook her fist instead of kissing her hand to us, it would serve us right, for more ungrateful wretches than we are were never seen,' cried Jo, taking a remorseful satisfaction in the snowy walk and bitter wind.
-- Miss Kate sketched and Frank talked to Beth, who was making little mats of braided rushes to serve as plates.
-- Serve me right, selfish pig, to let you go, and stay writing rubbish myself!'
-- 'If god spares Beth, I'll try to love and serve Him all my life,' answered Jo, with equal fervor.
-- For the time had come when they could talk together not only as father and daughter, but as man and woman, able and glad to serve each other with mutual sympathy as well as mutual love.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "All these incomplete indications but serve to torture us naturalists."
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