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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It follows, therefore, that Barrymore, since only this window would serve the purpose, must have been looking out for something or somebody upon the moor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The idea alone that she could in any way serve them, would be to her both a pride and a source of real happiness.
-- 'Well, a day or two afterwards, when I returned from drill, Nikifor says to me: 'We oughtn't to have left our tureen with the old lady, I've nothing to serve the soup in.'
-- I made an honest girl like you serve a low woman like myself.
-- He had chosen his ideal, and he was bound to serve her, and break lances for her, and acknowl-edge her as the ideal of pure Beauty, whatever she might say or do afterwards.
-- The grandfathers of these scions ruined themselves at the gaming-tables; their fathers were forced to serve as officers or subalterns; some have died just as they were about to be tried for innocent thoughtlessness in the handling of pub-lic funds.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Diomed all undaunted answered, 'Archer, you who with-out your bow are nothing, slanderer and seducer, if you were to be tried in single combat fighting in full armour, your bow and your arrows would serve you in little stead.
-- As two men, mea-suring-rods in hand, quarrel about their boundaries in a field that they own in common, and stickle for their rights though they be but in a mere strip, even so did the battle-ments now serve as a bone of contention, and they beat one another's round shields for their possession.
-- Polydamas vaunted loudly over him saying, 'Again I take it that the spear has not sped in vain from the strong hand of the son of Pan-thous; an Argive has caught it in his body, and it will serve him for a staff as he goes down into the house of Hades.'
-- Teuc-er shook with anger and said to his brother, 'Alas, see how heaven thwarts us in all we do; it has broken my bowstring and snatched the bow from my hand, though I strung it this selfsame morning that it might serve me for many an ar-row.'
-- The river with its broad silver stream shall serve you in no stead, for all the bulls you offered him and all the horses that you flung living into his waters.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had fancied they might serve for meat, but a rabbit-like habit of devour-ing their young had defeated this intention.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kala Nag, which means Black Snake, had served the In-dian Government in every way that an elephant could serve it for forty-seven years, and as he was fully twenty years old when he was caught, that makes him nearly seventy a ripe age for an elephant.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If you serve with the troops, of whom I judge you to be a scout, you should know of such a regiment of the king as the Sixtieth.'
-- 'I call them Iroquois, because to me every native, who speaks a foreign tongue, is accounted an enemy, though he may pretend to serve the king!If Webb wants faith and honesty in an Indian, let him bring out the tribes of the Delawares, and send these greedy and lying Mohawks and Oneidas, with their six nations of varlets, where in nature they belong, among the French!'
-- He had discharged his own duty, and he now pressed to the side of the old man, to know in what particular he might serve him.
-- But it is a comfort to know we serve a merciful Master, though we do it each after his fashion, and with great tracts of wilderness atween us what goes there?'
-- For that matter, though the Oneidas do serve his sacred majesty, who is my sovereign lord and master, I should not have deliberated long about letting off 'killdeer' at the imp myself, had luck thrown him in my way.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could see nothing that would serve his purpose; he rummaged about his painting things; somehow he could not find a thing; he was frantic.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reporter then proposed to light a fire on a point of the islet, which would serve as a signal to the engineer.
-- The cliff, as has been said, rose to a height of three hundred feet, but the mass was unbroken throughout, and even at its base, scarcely washed by the sea, it did not offer the smallest fissure which would serve as a dwelling.
-- This important point established, Herbert looked for some cavity which would serve them as a retreat, but in vain; everywhere the wall appeared smooth, plain, and perpendicular.
-- "So we can, my boy," replied the sailor, "and these Chimneys will serve our turn.
-- "That could in case of need serve for tinder."
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