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单词 to serve the place of
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to serve the place (or stead) of
P9. to serve the place (or stead) of: to be of use in place or instead of; to provide a substitute for (cf. 25a).
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1670 W. Penn Great Case Liberty of Consc. (new ed.) (title page) Which may serve the Place of a General Reply to such late Discourses.
1756 T. Pelham-Holles Resignation 13 Let not Resignations, my Countrymen, serve the place of Enquiry.
1827 W. Scott Highland Widow in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xii. 242 She lighted..a splinter of bog pine which was to serve the place of a candle.
1837 C. Lofft Self-formation I. 199 They may serve the stead of presence of mind, to a certain point at least.
1907 Washington Post 29 May 6/2 It will serve the stead of a million recruiting sergeants in our next big war.
1972 Math. Gaz. 56 254 The book consists of..worked examples serving the place of formal proofs.
2007 Amer. Lit. Hist. 19 992 Even racism does not quite serve the place of blood and soil nationalism.
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