Subserve
[sәb'sә:v]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To serve in subordination or instrumentally; to be subservient to; to help forward; to promote.
(v. i.) To be subservient or subordinate; to serve in an inferior capacity.
艾达校對
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Promote, forward, further, serve, help forward, be subservient to, pander to, minister to.
迪莉娅編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to serve subordinately or instrumentally: to help forward.—ns. Subser′vience Subser′viency state of being subservient: anything that promotes some purpose.—adj. Subser′vient subserving: serving to promote: subject: submissive.—adv. Subser′viently.
安塞姆校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I tell you, you want love to administer to your egoism, to subserve you. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Ah, if only he had asked HER to subserve him, to be his slave! 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He valued the sciences, not on their own account, but as they might subserve the purposes of the orator. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Fulton’s attention was drawn from canal-building to the possibility of some invention that might tend to subserve peace, and this in time led him to design and build the first torpedo. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- But there is no doubt that besides removing dirt of all kinds, they subserve other functions; and one of these apparently is defence. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I grant that this Liberia may have subserved all sorts of purposes, by being played off, in the hands of our oppressors, against us. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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