端到一個人面前的那一份
這一組看的是「舀出來的那一份」，也就是畫面裡碗裡的東西。
noun · B1
An amount of food or drink that is meant for one person at one meal. It is the unit recipes and food labels use when they say how much a dish makes or how much is in it.
一份（食物）
核心畫面
Picture a big pot in the middle of the table and one bowl being filled from it. The that leaves the pot and lands in front of one person is the whole idea: food measured out for somebody.
可以想成桌子中間一鍋東西，旁邊一個碗正被舀滿。從鍋裡舀出來、放到一個人面前的那一勺，就是這個字的整個畫面：為某個人量…更多收起
可以想成桌子中間一鍋東西，旁邊一個碗正被舀滿。從鍋裡舀出來、放到一個人面前的那一勺，就是這個字的整個畫面：為某個人量出來的食物。serving 後面的各種用法，都可以從這一勺長出來——有時候看的是那一份的量，有時候看的是舀的這個動作，有時候看的是舀東西用的那支匙子。From the word’s history
The source analyses it simply as serve plus -ing, so the noun starts life as the action of serving and then also names what gets served.
來源就把它拆成 serve 加上 -ing。所以這個名詞一開始是「端出去這個動作」，後來連「端出去的那一份」也用同一個字。今天兩個意思都還在用，看前面接的是 the 還是 a 就分得出來。
Wiktionary, serving (by surface analysis, serve + -ing), supplied in this evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:807212037)
Three branches
舀出去、端出去這個動作
這一組看的是畫面裡的動作本身，而不是碗裡的東西：湯從鍋裡到人面前的那個過程。
noun · B2
The act of giving out food or drink to the people who are going to have it.
上菜、供餐（這件事）
分菜用的器具
這一組看的是畫面裡的那支匙子和那個大盤：讓食物從鍋裡到每個人面前的工具。
adjective · B1
Used before words like spoon, dish, bowl and tray to say that the thing is for putting food onto other people plates, not for eating from yourself.
分菜用的（湯匙、盤子等）
原始詞典資料6 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。
servingnoun/ˈsɜːvɪŋ/
- 1
The act or process of serving.
- 2
An instance of that act or process.
- 3
The quantity of food or drink intended for one person in a single sitting; especially in relation to a meal.
- 4
A fraction or share.
- Very few Latino rock and roll bands, in the days before Santana, managed to successfully steal even a slight serving of the nation's auditory attention.
- 5
A layer added to the outside of an electrical cable to protect it.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。