service是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 服务； 公共设施； 维修保养； 行政部门v. 维修，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sat herself down before him, and with her left hand seized his knees, while with her right she caught him under the chin, and besought him, saying: 'Father Jove, if I ever did you service in word or deed among the immortals, hear my prayer, and do honour to my son, whose life is to be cut short so early.
-- If he come alive out of this fight he will have done good service alike to his own soul and to the Achaeans.'
-- 'Is there one,' said he, 'who for a great reward will do me the service of which I will tell you?
-- There she met Sleep, own brother to Death, and caught him by the hand, saying, 'Sleep, you who lord it alike over mortals and immortals, if you ever did me a service in times past, do one for me now, and I shall be grateful to you ever after.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember the funeral, the cheap hearse, the scant ceremony, the windy frost-bitten hillside, and the old college friend of his who read the service over him a shabby, black, bent old man with a snivelling cold.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of these no doubt they could press into their service against me if need arose.
-- And my Saint-Bernard-man's loy-alty was of infinite service to me.
-- By that time my arm had healed, and both my hands were at my service again.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, before he was twenty-five, he gave up being afraid, and so he was the best-loved and the best-looked-after elephant in the service of the Government of India.
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：
-- To us you can be of no further service here, but your precious life may be saved for other and near-er friends.'
-- * Baron Dieskau, a German, in the service of France.
-- You have then seen much service on this frontier?'
-- It was in the afternoon of the fifth day of the siege, and the fourth of his own service in it, that Major Heyward profited by a parley that had just been beaten, by repairing to the ramparts of one of the water bastions, to breathe the cool air from the lake, and to take a survey of the progress of the siege.
-- 'And can I be of service in the matter?'
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：
-- I thought that was the best service I could render him.
-- This is what I wrote:DEAR MRS. STROEVE, Dirk wishes me to tell you that if at any time you want him he will be grateful for the opportunity of being of service to you.
-- But he did not have a chance to speak to him, since, as he entered the common-room, a monk came in with a huge Bible in his arms, mounted a pulpit which was at the end of the room, and began the service which the wretched outcasts had to endure as the price of their lodging.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert, a gallant boy, already remarkably well informed in the natural sciences, would render greater service to the common cause.
-- If they had been living in the time of genii, this incident would have given them the right to think that the island was haunted by some supernatural being, who used his power in the service of the castaways!
-- "You are going to enter the service of Captain Cyrus Harding?"
-- He brushed their clothes, he turned the spit, he waited at table, he swept the rooms, he gathered wood, and he performed another admirable piece of service which delighted Pencroft he never went to sleep without first coming to tuck up the worthy sailor in his bed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the parlour window of this little habitation, which is so close upon the footway that the passenger who takes the wall brushes the dim glass with his coat sleeve much to its improvement, for it is very dirty in this parlour window in the days of its occupation by Sampson Brass, there hung, all awry and slack, and discoloured by the sun, a curtain of faded green, so threadbare from long service as by no means to intercept the view of the little dark room, but rather to afford a favourable medium through which to observe it accurately.
-- There was a simplicity in this confidence which occasioned it to find a quick response in the breast of the good-natured Notary, who replied, in the same spirit, that the stranger had not mistaken his desire, and that if he could be of service to him, he would, most readily.
-- His mother was not a little startled on learning what service was required of her, and presently fell into a confusion of ideas, of which the most prominent were that it was a great honour and dignity to ride in a post-chaise, and that it was a moral impossibility to leave the children behind.
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