及物/不及物动词提供; （为…）服务; 任（职）; 端上
及物动词招待; （为…）工作; 对…有用; 向…供应
不及物动词适合; 服役; 供职; [网球、羽毛球]发球
名词网球等发球; 发球权; 所发的球
1. 为…服务;为…效力;为…效忠
If you serve your country, an organization, or a person, you do useful work for them.
e.g. It is unfair to soldiers who have served their country well for many years...
这对那些为国效忠多年的士兵们来说是不公平的。
e.g. I have always said that I would serve the Party in any way it felt appropriate.
我一直说，只要需要，我愿意为党效力，不管以何种方式。
2. (尤指在部队)服役;(在政府部门)任职
If you serve in a particular place or as a particular official, you perform official duties, especially in the armed forces, as a civil servant, or as a politician.
e.g. During the second world war he served with RAF Coastal Command...
二战期间他在英国皇家空军海防总队服役。
e.g. He also served on the National Front's national executive committee...
他还曾就职于民族阵线全国执行委员会。
3. 用作;可当…使用;充作
If something serves as a particular thing or serves a particular purpose, it performs a particular function, which is often not its intended function.
e.g. She ushered me into the front room, which served as her office...
她把我领进了她用作办公室的前厅。
e.g. I really do not think that an inquiry would serve any useful purpose...
我真的认为调查没有任何实际意义。
4. 供应(某地或某人);为…提供服务
If something serves people or an area, it provides them with something that they need.
e.g. This could mean the closure of thousands of small businesses which serve the community...
这可能意味着成千上万家服务社会的小企业将要倒闭。
e.g. ...improvements in the public water-supply system serving the Nairobi area...
内罗毕地区的公共供水系统的改善
5. 对…有用;能满足…的需要;符合…的利益
Something that serves someone's interests benefits them.
e.g. The economy should be organized to serve the interests of all the people...
经济的组织运行应符合所有人的利益。
e.g. They may well decide that their interests would be best served by joining in.
他们很有可能认定参与其中才会令其利益最大化。
6. (给…)提供，端上(食物);上(菜);开(饭)
When you serve food and drink, you give people food and drink.
e.g. Serve it with French bread...
把它和法式面包一起端上去。
e.g. Serve the cakes warm...
趁热上蛋糕。
7. (食物的量)足够…吃
Serve is used to indicate how much food a recipe produces. For example, a recipe that serves six provides enough food for six people.
e.g. Garnish with fresh herbs. Serves 4.
配以新鲜香草，4 人份。
8. 接待，服务，招待(顾客)
Someone who serves customers in a shop or a bar helps them and provides them with what they want to buy.
e.g. They wouldn't serve me in any pubs 'cos I looked too young...
这些酒吧都不让我进，因为我看上去太小了。
e.g. Auntie and Uncle suggested she serve in the shop.
阿姨和叔叔建议她去商店工作。
9. 送交(令状等);把…送达
When the police or other officials serve someone with a legal order or serve an order on them, they give or send the legal order to them.
e.g. Immigration officers tried to serve her with a deportation order...
移民局官员试图向她下达驱逐令。
e.g. Police said they had been unable to serve a summons on 25-year-old Lee Jones.
警方说他们无法传唤 25 岁的李·琼斯。
10. 服(刑);当(学徒)
If you serve something such as a prison sentence or an apprenticeship, you spend a period of time doing it.
e.g. ...Leo, who is currently serving a life sentence for murder...
因谋杀罪正在服无期徒刑的利奥
e.g. He was able to serve his apprenticeship as a trainer with Eddie Futch.
他当时师从埃迪·富齐学当拳击教练员。
11. (在网球、羽毛球等比赛中)发球
When you serve in games such as tennis and badminton, you throw up the ball or shuttlecock and hit it to start play.
e.g. He served 17 double faults...
他有 17 次双发失误。
e.g. If you serve like this nobody can beat you.
如果你像这样发球，没有人可以击败你。
12. (某些球类比赛中的)发球
When you describe someone's serve, you are indicating how well or how fast they serve a ball or shuttlecock.
e.g. His powerful serve was too much for the defending champion.
他的大力发球让卫冕冠军难以招架。
13. see also: serving
14. 咎由自取;罪有应得;活该
If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
e.g. Serves her right for being so stubborn.
她太固执了，活该。
相关词组：serve outserve up
及物/不及物动词打断（别人的话等）; 阻止; 截断
及物动词中断; 打扰; 暂停; 妨碍
不及物动词打断
名词中断; 暂停
1. 打断(某人)
If you interrupt someone who is speaking, you say or do something that causes them to stop.
e.g. Turkin tapped him on the shoulder. 'Sorry to interrupt, Colonel.'...
图尔金拍拍他的肩膀。“不好意思打断您一下,上校。”
e.g. He tried to speak, but she interrupted him.
他想说话,但被她打断了。
形容词破碎的，打碎的; （腿，臂等）已骨折的; （线条）虚线的，断续的; 被打断的
动词打破，折断(break的过去分词); 打破（纪录）; 损坏
1.
2. （线条）不连贯的，断续的，中断的
A broken line is not continuous but has gaps or spaces in it.
e.g. A broken blue line means the course of a waterless valley.
蓝色虚线代表无水流过的山谷。
3. （婚姻）破裂的
You can use broken to describe a marriage that has ended in divorce, or a home in which the parents of the family are divorced, when you think this is a sad or bad thing.
e.g. She spoke for the first time about the traumas of a broken marriage...
她首度谈起婚姻破裂带来的精神创伤。
e.g. Children from broken homes are more likely to leave home before the age of 18.
破裂家庭里的孩子在18岁之前离家的可能性更大。
4. （语言）蹩脚的，不流利的
If someone talks in broken English, for example, or in broken French, they speak slowly and make a lot of mistakes because they do not know the language very well.
e.g. Eric could only respond in broken English.
埃里克只能用蹩脚的英语回答。
名词庇护; 避难所; 政治避难; 精神病院
1. （通常指政治）庇护，避难
If a government gives a person from another country asylum, they allow them to stay, usually because they are unable to return home safely for political reasons.
e.g. He applied for asylum in 1987 after fleeing the police back home.
1987年他在本国逃脱警察追捕后，就申请了政治庇护。
2. 精神病院
An asylum is a psychiatric hospital.
形容词治疗（学）的，疗法的; 有益于健康的
1. 使人放松的;能解郁安神的
If something is therapeutic, it helps you to relax or to feel better about things, especially about a situation that made you unhappy.
e.g. Astanga Yoga is a therapeutic physical exercise that focuses on breathing and relaxation.
八步功法瑜伽注重呼吸和放松，是一种舒缓身心的锻炼方法。
2. 治疗性的;有助于治疗的
Therapeutic treatment is designed to treat an illness or to improve a person's health, rather than to prevent an illness.
e.g. ...therapeutic drugs.
治疗性药物
形容词属于偏执狂的; 患妄想狂的; 过分猜疑的
名词偏执狂患者; 妄想症患者
1. （人）极端疑惧的
If you say that someone is paranoid, you mean that they are extremely suspicious and afraid of other people.
e.g. I'm not going to get paranoid about it.
我不会对此多心的。
e.g. ...a paranoid politician who saw enemies all around him.
觉得草木皆兵的神经质政客
2. 患偏执狂的；患妄想症的
Someone who is paranoid suffers from the mental illness of paranoia.
e.g. ...paranoid delusions.
偏执的妄想
e.g. ...a paranoid schizophrenic.
偏执型精神分裂症患者
形容词夸大的，言过其实的; 过大的，逾常的
动词（使）扩大( exaggerate的过去式和过去分词)
1. 夸大的;夸张的;言过其实的
Something that is exaggerated is or seems larger, better, worse, or more important than it actually needs to be.
e.g. They should be sceptical of exaggerated claims for what such courses can achieve...
对于那些课程能够取得何等成果的夸大宣传，他们应该持怀疑态度。
e.g. Western fears, he insists, are greatly exaggerated.
他坚持说，西方的恐惧被过分夸大了。
转移；印字；中转；传递[导，送，输，热]；转让；转移，迁移( transfer的现在分词 )；改变；
获得( obtain的过去式和过去分词 )；买到；存在；流行；
形容词掠夺成性的; 食肉的; 捕食生物的
1. （动物）捕食性的
Predatory animals live by killing other animals for food.
e.g. ...predatory birds like the eagle.
像鹰一样的捕食性动物
2. 掠夺性的；弱肉强食的；损人利己的
Predatory people or organizations are eager to gain something out of someone else's weakness or suffering.
e.g. People who run small businesses are frightened by the predatory behaviour of the banks.
小公司经营者被银行的掠夺行为吓坏了。