英语词汇“to serve a person's turn”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(a) to serve a person's turn.

(i) Of a thing, or occasionally a person: to answer a person's purpose or requirement; to suffice for or satisfy a need; to be useful or helpful at need; to suit, serve. Also in passive, as in he wants his turn to be served by it. Now somewhat rare or archaic.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > expediency > expedient or advisable [phrase] > serve the purpose

to serve one's (also one's own) turn1538

1538 R. Morison tr. J. Sturm Epist. Cardynalles sig. Av Also suche men haue come to it, as wolde not plainly expresse such fautes as they knew, but rather serued his turne, vnto whom they aknowlege them selfis greatly to be bound.

1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. iii. sig. Liij^v Loke thou serue my tourne, what so euer I saye [L. Fac uerbis meis subseruias].

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 52 The turns both of Pope and King were competently served.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xiii. 82 Nothing would serve the Fellow's Turn but Tea.

a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 72 Pipes he could not obtain; but a cow's horn perforated served his turn.

1913 Connoisseur Mar. 176 If the aim of the pictures was..realistic, then a photograph would have better served our turn.

2010 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 13 Cook, bottle-washer, errand-boy I care not—any station, high or low, Should serve your turn.

†(ii) To satisfy a person's sexual needs. Obsolete.Often humorously punning on Phrases 1b(a)(i).

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1575 J. Awdely Fraternitye of Vacabondes (new ed.) sig. A.ii^v He may also commaund any of their women, which they cal Doxies, to serue his turne.

1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 2 For which she did so scald and burn That none but he could serve her turn.

1714 A. Pope Chaucer's Wife of Bath in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 19 I pawn'd my Honour and ingag'd my Vow, If e'er laid my Husband in his Urn, That he, and only he, shou'd serve my Turn.

a1743 Ld. Hervey Mem. Reign George II (1848) (modernized text) II. xxvi. 150 Others, in very coarse terms, would ask if he must have a mistress whether England could furnish never a one good enough to serve his turn.

单词	to serve a person's turn
释义	> as lemmas to serve a person's turn (a) to serve a person's turn. (i) Of a thing, or occasionally a person: to answer a person's purpose or requirement; to suffice for or satisfy a need; to be useful or helpful at need; to suit, serve. Also in passive, as in he wants his turn to be served by it. Now somewhat rare or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > expediency > expedient or advisable [phrase] > serve the purpose to serve one's (also one's own) turn1538 1538 R. Morison tr. J. Sturm Epist. Cardynalles sig. Av Also suche men haue come to it, as wolde not plainly expresse such fautes as they knew, but rather serued his turne, vnto whom they aknowlege them selfis greatly to be bound. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. iii. sig. Liij^v Loke thou serue my tourne, what so euer I saye [L. Fac uerbis meis subseruias]. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 52 The turns both of Pope and King were competently served. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xiii. 82 Nothing would serve the Fellow's Turn but Tea. View more context for this quotation a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 72 Pipes he could not obtain; but a cow's horn perforated served his turn. 1913 Connoisseur Mar. 176 If the aim of the pictures was..realistic, then a photograph would have better served our turn. 2010 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 13 Cook, bottle-washer, errand-boy I care not—any station, high or low, Should serve your turn. †(ii) To satisfy a person's sexual needs. Obsolete.Often humorously punning on Phrases 1b(a)(i). ΚΠ 1575 J. Awdely Fraternitye of Vacabondes (new ed.) sig. A.ii^v He may also commaund any of their women, which they cal Doxies, to serue his turne. 1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 2 For which she did so scald and burn That none but he could serve her turn. 1714 A. Pope Chaucer's Wife of Bath in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 19 I pawn'd my Honour and ingag'd my Vow, If e'er laid my Husband in his Urn, That he, and only he, shou'd serve my Turn. a1743 Ld. Hervey Mem. Reign George II (1848) (modernized text) II. xxvi. 150 Others, in very coarse terms, would ask if he must have a mistress whether England could furnish never a one good enough to serve his turn. extracted from turnn. < as lemmas
随便看	to make hold a vow to make holiday to make homage to make horns at to make in to make in one's way to make interest to make it to make it a point to to make it a religion to to make it a rule to make it big to make it coy to make it fair with to make it good on a person's body to make it goodly to make it known to make it nice to make it one'a practice to make it one's business to make it one's exercise to make it one's practice to make it out to make it proud to make it quaint

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