喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture service as one person doing something useful for another — the act of serving. From this single human act of 'helping / doing for', everything else fans out: a whole system set up to do it, a business built on it, even a church ceremony of devoting yourself.

可以把 service 想成一個畫面：一個人替另一個人做點有用的事——也就是「服侍、效勞」這個動作。從這個最樸素的「…更多收起可以把 service 想成一個畫面：一個人替另一個人做點有用的事——也就是「服侍、效勞」這個動作。從這個最樸素的「為人做事」出發，其他意思像扇子一樣展開：把這件事制度化成一套系統、做成一門生意、甚至在教堂裡奉獻自己的儀式，都是同一個「服務」的延伸。

原始詞典資料28 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Servicename

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Missouri, United States.

servicenoun詞源 1/ˈsɜː.vɪs/

  • 1

    An act of being of assistance to someone.

    • I say I did him a service by ending our relationship – now he can freely pursue his career.
    • The Parliament for ever cries more money, / The service of the state demands more money. / Just heaven! of what service is the state?
  • 2

    The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.

    • Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur.
    • The lesser griefs that may be said, / ⁠That breathe a thousand tender vows, / ⁠Are but as servants in a house / Where lies the master newly dead; / Who speak their feeling as it is, / ⁠And weep the fulness from the mind: / ⁠‘It will be hard’ they say ‘to find / Another service such as this.’
  • 3

    Work as a member of the military.

    • Thank you for your service.
  • 4

    The military.

    • the service
    • I did three years in the service before coming here.
  • 5

    economicssciencesThe practice of providing assistance as economic activity.

    • Hair care is a service industry.
    • The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[...]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
  • 6

    businessSynonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).

  • 7

    A department in a company, organization, or institution.

  • 8

    computingengineeringmathematicsA function that is provided by one program or machine for another.

    • This machine provides the name service for the LAN.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A set of dishes or utensils.

    • She brought out the silver tea service.
    • When their lavish fiestas ended they threw the silver service and even golden vessels from their balconies to be picked up by lucky passersby.
  • 10

    hobbieslifestylesportsThe act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.

    • The player had four service faults in the set.
  • 11

    A religious rite or ritual.

    • Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
    • The funerary service was touching.
  • 12

    lawThe serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.

    • He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.
    • The service happened yesterday.
  • 13

    A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.

  • 14

    A musical composition for use in churches.

  • 15

    obsoleteProfession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.

    • Pray, do my service to his majesty.
  • 16

    nauticaltransportThe materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.

  • 17

    Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.

serviceverb詞源 1/ˈsɜː.vɪs/

  • 1

    To serve.

    • They service the customer base.
    • The USS Manila Bay, in the next group south of Taffy 3, services aircraft from eleven different squadrons that aren't attached to her own flight group, and, at one point, has representatives from no less than four other carriers' airgroups on her flight deck at the same time.
  • 2

    To serve.

    • He is going to service the car.
    • 2 GWM businessmen seek young GM to service nice small country home in So. NH
  • 3

    To serve.

    • One obvious way is press releases, which should be sent to your region's reporters, editors and columnists, the wire services, professional publications. […] Servicing the media should be an everyday thing.
    • […] instead of expending so much of their PR effort on servicing the media.
  • 4

    To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt).

    • It continues to be laden with intense debt servicing costs.
  • 5

    agriculturebusinesslifestyleTo inseminate through sexual intercourse.

  • 6

    vulgarTo perform a sexual act upon.

    • He serviced her several times a week.
  • 7

    governmentmilitarypoliticsTo attack.

    • to service a target
    • target servicing

servicenoun詞源 2/ˈsɜː.vɪs/

  • 1

    Service tree.

  • 2

    The sorb; the fruit of this tree.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。