Serviceable
['sɜːvɪsəb(ə)l] or ['sɝvɪsəbl]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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.
沙琳編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Useful, helpful, profitable, advantageous, convenient, beneficial, available, operative.
錄入:山姆
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Useful, benetidal, advantageous, profitable, sound, well-conditioned
ANT:Useless, profitless, ill-conditioned, unserviceable, unsound
校對:梅勒妮
例句/造句/用法:
- All the other furniture is plain and serviceable, you perceive. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Thanks, however, to Gurt's quick ear, and the serviceable electric light, their little scheme was frustrated at nearly the moment of its fulfilment. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- Means are menial, the serviceable is servile. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- 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. 科學通論.
- He cannot be their merchant, nor they his customers; and they are all of them thus mutually less serviceable to one another. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The Count Fosco, and his lady, who came upstairs immediately afterwards, were both most serviceable and kind. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I should like to be serviceable to you, if you will let me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Few members of the animal creation are more universally serviceable to man than the codfish. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Wished Esther only to know what would be serviceable to her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I am poor, and an exile; but it will afford me true pleasure to be in any way serviceable to a human creature. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- My right arm was tolerably restored; disfigured, but fairly serviceable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It followed that the old man, Riah, as a good and serviceable friend to both, was not to be disclaimed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It had been serviceable in deadening the first shock, without retaining any influence to alarm. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- For family or grocers’ use this will prove even more serviceable than some of the high-priced patent refrigerators. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The ungainly piece of honesty beamed and blushed as he said it, quite enraptured with the remembrance of having been serviceable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- That which was considered good to-day was superseded by something better and more serviceable to-morrow. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- With the development of an attachment to bind with twine, a new problem arose--where to get a cheap serviceable twine. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There is, perhaps, but one set of men in the whole commonwealth to whom the bounty either was or could be essentially serviceable. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Mr Boffin has merely to add, that he relies on Mr John Rokesmith's assurance that he will be faithful and serviceable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- To make the steam-carriage really serviceable it must be more efficient and reliable. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It is also very serviceable for frying hot cakes. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
校對:梅勒妮