Serviceable
['sɜːvɪsəb(ə)l] or ['sɝvɪsəbl]
解释:
(adj.) intended or able to serve a purpose without elaboration; 'serviceable low-heeled shoes'; .
(adj.) ready for service or able to give long service; 'serviceable equipment'; 'heavy serviceable fabrics' .
(adj.) capable of being put to good use; 'a serviceable kitchen gadget' .
手打:尤赖亚--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.
(a.) Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent.
沙琳编辑
同义词及近义词:
a. Useful, helpful, profitable, advantageous, convenient, beneficial, available, operative.
录入:山姆
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Useful, benetidal, advantageous, profitable, sound, well-conditioned
ANT:Useless, profitless, ill-conditioned, unserviceable, unsound
校对:梅勒妮
例句:
- All the other furniture is plain and serviceable, you perceive. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- As I saw she would go on, I thought it best to try to be serviceable to her by meeting the theme rather than avoiding it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I hold that by refusing to work with Mr. Bulstrode I should be turning my back on an opportunity of making my profession more generally serviceable. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Thanks, however, to Gurt's quick ear, and the serviceable electric light, their little scheme was frustrated at nearly the moment of its fulfilment. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- These qualities render it peculiarly serviceable for the stopping of vessels of different kinds, for floats, buoys, swimming-belts or jackets, artificial limbs, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Means are menial, the serviceable is servile. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Wells takes his stand very definitely with those who regard classification as serviceable for the practical purposes of life but nevertheless a departure from the objective truth of things. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Fire melts ore and allows of the forging of iron, as in the blacksmith's shop, and of the fashioning of innumerable objects serviceable to man. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- He cannot be their merchant, nor they his customers; and they are all of them thus mutually less serviceable to one another. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- There was an officer in command of the soldiers; a stout, serviceable, profoundly calm man, with his drawn sword in his hand, smoking a cigar. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The Count Fosco, and his lady, who came upstairs immediately afterwards, were both most serviceable and kind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I should like to be serviceable to you, if you will let me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Few members of the animal creation are more universally serviceable to man than the codfish. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Wished Esther only to know what would be serviceable to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I am poor, and an exile; but it will afford me true pleasure to be in any way serviceable to a human creature. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- My right arm was tolerably restored; disfigured, but fairly serviceable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- It followed that the old man, Riah, as a good and serviceable friend to both, was not to be disclaimed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It had been serviceable in deadening the first shock, without retaining any influence to alarm. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- For family or grocers’ use this will prove even more serviceable than some of the high-priced patent refrigerators. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- The ungainly piece of honesty beamed and blushed as he said it, quite enraptured with the remembrance of having been serviceable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- That which was considered good to-day was superseded by something better and more serviceable to-morrow. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- With the development of an attachment to bind with twine, a new problem arose--where to get a cheap serviceable twine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- There is, perhaps, but one set of men in the whole commonwealth to whom the bounty either was or could be essentially serviceable. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Mr Boffin has merely to add, that he relies on Mr John Rokesmith's assurance that he will be faithful and serviceable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- To make the steam-carriage really serviceable it must be more efficient and reliable. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- It is also very serviceable for frying hot cakes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
校对:梅勒妮