| 单词 | at service |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat (a person's) service (a) at (a person's) service. extracted from servicen.1 (i) Ready to obey or carry out a person's commands or wishes. Formerly occasionally also †at service. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > at one's service or ready to serve [phrase] at a person's handa1382 at the hand ofa1382 at a person's retinuec1400 to (also at) (a person's) retenance?a1430 at (a person's) servicec1485 at hand unto1613 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) ii. 11 Thai ordanyt him a squier and a varlet page—tobe euer contynualy at his bidding and seruice. 1578 W. Darell Short Disc. Life Seruingmen sig. E.ivv You haue bene sometimes a Gentlewoman vnder obedience, though nowe you haue others at seruice and commandement. 1633 J. Shirley Wittie Faire One i. sig. B2v But you did motion cards, Ile chuse my partner And for a set or two I'me at your seruice. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 269. ¶5 The Knight told me..his Chaplain was very well, and much at my Seruice. 1827 G. Boswell Maria of Mountain 27 Let your ladyship only say the word that I should be one of your attendants, or servants, or guides, or what you please to call me, and I am at your service at a moment's warning. 1905 R. Bagot Passport xxxv. 408 ‘Ask me anything,’ Silvio replied. ‘I am entirely at your service.’ 2001 A. Gurnah By the Sea (2002) iv. 108 For all I know she may have been one of two or three or perhaps more women at his service. (ii) at your service: used as a polite deferential formula in greeting or valediction, (formerly) at the end of a letter, etc. Cf. servant n. Phrases 2. Now somewhat archaic. [In origin effectively a shortened form of ‘I am at your service’; in later use sometimes preceded by the name of the speaker, as a formal expression of the speaker's obligation. Partly also after Middle French, French à vostre service (late 16th cent. or earlier; now à votre service).] In quot. 1554 the phrase to do you service is used in conjunction with yours (see yours pron. 4) to form a similar formula with which to end a letter. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > at one's service or ready to serve [phrase] > as phrase of politeness to command (to be commanded)1560 at your service1592 1554 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. III. 315 Youres to do yow service, as I am most bounden, duering lief Frauncis Yaxley.] 1592 G. Delamothe French Alphabeth 12 Good morrow sir, How do you? At your seruice, and at your commaundement. [Fr. parallel text: A vostre seruice, & moy a vostre commandement.] 1593 A. Chute in G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation sig. Gg2 And so in hast recommending you to your better studies, I rest at your seruice. Sir, An: Ch. 1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xxiv. sig. N3 At your seruice, hath beene so conuersant, as one asking, what's a Clock? 1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden i. i. sig. Bv Touch. Oh you are most friendly welcome Mr. Gilbert Goldwire, and Mr. Walter Chamlet I take yee to be. Ambo. The same sir at your service. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 164 My name is Matthew Bramble, at your service. 1891 G. Schumm tr. L. Tolstoy Fruits of Culture iii. v. 119 Leonid Fedorovitch. Tell Fedor, please, that he is to prepare everything for the séance, and call Semion here... Gregori. At your service! (Exit.) 1937 J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbit i. 17 He hung his hooded cloak on the nearest peg, and ‘Dwalin at your service!’ he said with a low bow. 2014 T. McCulloch Stillman 43 ‘Are you Mr Drever?’.. ‘At your service,’ I said, standing up. (iii) Of a thing: at a person's disposal; ready or available to be used, spent, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > in use [phrase] > at one's disposal command1560 at command1584 at (a person's) service1595 1595 E. Hoby tr. L.-V. de La Popelinière Hist. France iv. 244 And the fouth estate [graunted vnto the King] two Millions of Golde, declaring further vnto him, that if that woulde not suffice to..compell the enemie to harken to some good peace, they would expose al that remayned of their goods and persons at his seruice [Fr. pour son seruice]. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. v. 9 Gastly lookes Are at my seruice like inforced smiles. 1683 W. Hedges Diary 30 Oct. (1887) I. 132 I told him the last time he was here..I promised him a Persian Horse; I had now one at his Service, which he accepted with some ceremony. 1707 C. Cibber Lady's Last Stake i. 1 Well, the Chariot is at her Service. 1798 Hull Advertiser 9 June 2/2 The Exchange and W. Bell's pulpit are at the service of every broker and auctioneer. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 385 My means, which are certainly ample, are at your service. 1955 Times 9 June 8/3 The Cunard company put the main restaurant at his service. 2008 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 10 Dec. (Travel section) r8 In Miami, the newly opened five-star Regent Bal Harbour [hotel] has a Mercedes sedan at your service. at service (i) Ready to obey or carry out a person's commands or wishes. Formerly occasionally also †at service. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > at one's service or ready to serve [phrase] at a person's handa1382 at the hand ofa1382 at a person's retinuec1400 to (also at) (a person's) retenance?a1430 at (a person's) servicec1485 at hand unto1613 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) ii. 11 Thai ordanyt him a squier and a varlet page—tobe euer contynualy at his bidding and seruice. 1578 W. Darell Short Disc. Life Seruingmen sig. E.ivv You haue bene sometimes a Gentlewoman vnder obedience, though nowe you haue others at seruice and commandement. 1633 J. Shirley Wittie Faire One i. sig. B2v But you did motion cards, Ile chuse my partner And for a set or two I'me at your seruice. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 269. ¶5 The Knight told me..his Chaplain was very well, and much at my Seruice. 1827 G. Boswell Maria of Mountain 27 Let your ladyship only say the word that I should be one of your attendants, or servants, or guides, or what you please to call me, and I am at your service at a moment's warning. 1905 R. Bagot Passport xxxv. 408 ‘Ask me anything,’ Silvio replied. ‘I am entirely at your service.’ 2001 A. Gurnah By the Sea (2002) iv. 108 For all I know she may have been one of two or three or perhaps more women at his service. at service (b) at service: engaged or employed as a servant (usually a domestic servant); = in service at Phrases 1b(a)(i). Chiefly Scottish in later use; now rare except as in out at service. ΚΠ 1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Fv Whether the same Childe be..in the Howse, or at Nurse; at Service, or els dead. 1822 J. Wilson Lights & Shadows Sc. Life 110 Their only daughter..was at service with a farmer over the hills. 1861 Kingston's Mag. for Boys 2 26 [They] knew..how many children there were in each family, and asked after those who were absent, some at service, and some apprentices, and some in the army or at sea. 1933 Scotsman 24 Mar. 6/2 On ‘Mothering Sunday’..the lads from the outlying farms and the girls at service in the towns went home to visit their mothers. < as lemmas |
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