serve

出处：An interface defining life-cycle methods for instances to be served by an ObjectPool.
含义：
服务，招待，接待，为...服务
供应，提供
侍候，服侍，侍应
对待
We must serve the people heart and soul.
我们必须全心全意地为人民服务。
The waiter is serving another customer.
侍应正侍候另一位客人。
He served as a naval officer during the war.
战时他在海军当军官。
The large box in his room can serve as a desk too.
他房间里的那只大箱子也可以当桌子用。
He served four terms in Congress.
他在国会任职四届。
serve的基本意思是“服务,服役”,它可指某人为他人服务、干活或为国家尽职等; 也可指某人拿出某物款待某人; 还可指某人、物、事对某人、某事等“有…用处”“满足…的需要”“适合…的目的”等。在网球或排球比赛中还可作“发(球)”解。
serve可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词、代词、动词不定式作宾语,还可以接双宾语,其间接宾语可转换为介词to的宾语。serve有时还可接以形容词作补足语的复合宾语。