(thể dục,thể thao) cú giao bóng; lượt giao bóng (quần vợt...)

whose serve is it?

đến lượt ai giao bóng?

Phục vụ, phụng sự

to serve one's country

phục vụ tổ quốc

to serve in the army

phục vụ trong quân đội

to serve at table

đứng hầu bàn ăn

Đáp ứng, có lợi cho, thoả mãn, hợp với

to serve a purpose

đáp ứng một mục đích

to serve some private ends

có lợi cho những mục đích riêng

1 kg serves him for a week

một kilôgam có thể đủ cho anh ta trong một tuần

nothing would serve him

chẳng có gì hợp với anh ta cả

Dọn ăn, dọn bàn

to serve up dinner

dọn cơm ăn

to serve somebody with soup

dọn cháo cho ai ăn

to serve chicken three days running

cho ăn thịt gà ba ngày liền

Cung cấp, tiếp tế; phân phát

to serve ammunition

tiếp đạn; phân phát đạn

to serve ration

phân chia khẩu phần

to serve the town with water

cung cấp nước cho thành phố

to serve a battery

tiếp đạn cho một khẩu đội

to serve a customer with something

bán cái gì cho một khách hàng

(thể dục,thể thao) giao bóng; giao (bóng)

to serve the ball

giao bóng

Đối xử, đối đãi

you may serve me as you will

anh muốn đối với tôi thế nào cũng được

to serve somebody a trick

chơi xỏ ai một vố

(pháp lý) tống đạt, gửi

to serve a writ on someone; to serve someone with a writ

tống đạt trát đòi người nào ra toà

Dùng (về việc gì)

a sofa serving as a bed

một ghế xôfa dùng làm giường

Nhảy (cái) (ngựa giống)

(như) to serve one's sentence

to serve somebody with the same sauce

o serve somebody out

Trả thù ai, ăn miếng trả miếng ai

as occasion serves

khi có điều kiện thuận lợi, lúc thuận lợi

as memory serves

mỗi khi nhớ đến

to serve the devil

độc ác, nham hiểm

to serve God (the Lord)

ngoan đạo

if my memory serves me right

nếu tôi không nhầm

it serves him right!

Xem right

to serve an office

làm hết một nhiệm kỳ

to serve one's apprenticeship

Xem apprenticeship

to serve one's sentence

chịu hết hạn tù

to serve one's time

giữ chức vụ hết nhiệm kỳ

điều khiển (máy)

thụ ủy

thụ ủy viên

phục vụ

refrigerated serve-over counter

quầy lạnh bán hàng (có nhân viên phục vụ)

refrigerated serve-over counter (displaycase)

quầy lạnh bán hàng (có nhân viên phục vụ)

refrigerated serve-over display case

quầy lạnh bán hàng (có nhân viên phục vụ)

self-serve freezer

máy kem tự phục vụ

serve-over display showcase

tủ kính để phục vụ

thỏa mãn

V.

Attend (to), wait on or upon, minister to, look after (theneeds of), be at (someone's) beck and call, assist, help, be ofassistance or help, be in the service of, oblige, accommodate,gratify: After a patron is seated and settled, approach him andask, 'May I serve you, Sir (or Madam, as the case may be ) ?' Weserve all customers with equal consideration.

Fulfil or carryout or perform or discharge (a function or a duty or one'sduty), work (for), do (duty) (as or for), do one's part,suffice, be used or of use or useful (to or for), function (asor to), act (as or to), fill the bill, be serviceable (as orfor), be available (for), answer (for), be sufficient oradequate or suitable, suit, be advantageous or of advantage(to); fight (for), be obedient (to), take one's part: Thiscatch will serve to keep the door closed. I had no screw driver,but a coin served just as well. They also serve who only standand wait. 3 distribute, deal out, dole out, give out, present,set out, provide, supply, offer, pass out or about or around,make available, come (a)round with, dish up or out: They willserve hors-d'oeuvres at seven-thirty. Dinner is served, Madam. 4be convenient or opportune or favourable (to): If theopportunity serves me, I shall repay you many times over.

Notfail, not play tricks (on), work or function (for), be accurateor correct: If memory serves, he was last here about ten yearsago.

Go through, complete, spend, last, endure, survive:Henryson served ten years in Dartmoor for that crime.

V. & n.

V.

Tr. do a service for (a person, community,etc.).

Tr. (also absol.) be a servant to.

Intr. carry outduties (served on six committees).

Intr. a (foll. by in) beemployed in (an organization, esp. the armed forces, or a place,esp. a foreign country) (served in the air force). b be amember of the armed forces.

A tr. be useful to or serviceablefor; meet the needs of; do what is required for (serve apurpose; one packet serves him for a week). b intr. meetrequirements; perform a function (a sofa serving as a bed). cintr. (foll. by to + infin.) avail, suffice (his attempt servedonly to postpone the inevitable; it serves to show the folly ofsuch action).

Tr. go through a due period of (office,apprenticeship, a prison sentence, etc.).

Tr. set out orpresent (food) for those about to eat it (asparagus served withbutter; dinner was then served).

Intr. (in full serve attable) act as a waiter.

Tr. a attend to (a customer in ashop). b (foll. by with) supply with (goods) (was serving acustomer with apples; served the town with gas).

Tr. treator act towards (a person) in a specified way (has served meshamefully; you may serve me as you will).

Tr. a (oftenfoll. by on) deliver (a writ etc.) to the person concerned in alegally formal manner (served a warrant on him). b (foll. bywith) deliver a writ etc. to (a person) in this way (served herwith a summons).

Tr. Tennis etc. a (also absol.) deliver (aball etc.) to begin or resume play. b produce (a fault etc.) bydoing this.

Tr. Mil. keep (a gun, battery, etc.) firing.14 tr. (of an animal, esp. a stallion etc. hired for thepurpose) copulate with (a female).

Tr. distribute (servedthe ammunition out; served the rations round).

Tr. renderobedience to (a deity etc.).

Eccl. a intr. act as a server.b tr. act as a server at (a service).

Intr. (of a tide) besuitable for a ship to leave harbour etc.

Tr. Naut. bind (arope etc.) with thin cord to strengthen it.

Tr. play (atrick etc.) on.

N.

Tennis etc. a the act or an instance ofserving. b a manner of serving. c a person's turn to serve.

Austral. sl. a reprimand.

(alsoserve time) undergo imprisonment, apprenticeship, etc. serveone's (or the) turn be adequate. serve up offer for acceptance.[ME f. OF servir f. L servire f. servus slave]