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N-COUNT
公共服務事業;公共服務系統
A service is something that the public needs, such as transport, communications facilities, hospitals, or energy supplies, which is provided in a planned and organized way by the government or an official body.
例句
Britain still boasts the cheapest postal service...
英國仍擁有最便宜的郵政服務系統。
We have started a campaign for better nursery and school services...
我們已發起一場要求改善幼兒園和中小學教育服務的運動。
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公共事業機構(或公司)
You can sometimes refer to an organization or private company as a particular service when it provides something for the public or acts on behalf of the government.
例句
...the BBC World Service.
英國廣播公司國際廣播臺
...Careers Advisory Services.
職業咨詢服務
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(機構或公司提供的某一)服務
If an organization or company provides a particular service, they can do a particular job or a type of work for you.
例句
The kitchen maintains a twenty-four hour service and can be contacted via Reception...
廚房提供24小時餐飲服務，可通過前臺進行聯系。
The larger firm was capable of providing a better range of services.
較大的公司能夠提供一系列更好的服務。
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N-PLURAL
服務業;服務性活動
Services are activities such as tourism, banking, and selling things which are part of a country's economy, but are not concerned with producing or manufacturing goods.
例句
Mining rose by 9.1%, manufacturing by 9.4% and services by 4.3%.
采礦業增長了 9.1%, 制造業增長了 9.4%，服務業增長了 4.3%。
...the doctrine that a highly developed service sector was the sign of a modern economy.
高度發展的服務業是現代經濟標志的學說
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N-UNCOUNT
服務內容;服務(質量);服務態度
The level or standard of service provided by an organization or company is the amount or quality of the work it can do for you.
例句
Taking risks is the only way employees can provide effective and efficient customer service...
員工能夠為客戶提供有價值、高效的服務的唯一途徑就是敢于冒險。
The current level of service will be maintained except that the evening 'Network Express' trains will be withdrawn.
除了“鐵網特快”夜班列車將會停開外，目前的運營線路會保持下去。
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(公共汽車或火車的)路線，行程車次，班車
A bus or train service is a route or regular journey that is part of a transport system.
例句
A bus service operates between Bolton and Salford.
博爾頓和索爾福德之間有一班公共汽車往返。
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N-PLURAL
(提供技術或幫助的)服務
Your services are the things that you do or the skills that you use in your job, which other people find useful and are usually willing to pay you for.
例句
I have obtained the services of a top photographer to take our pictures...
我已請到了一位頂級攝影師來給我們拍照。
The performers have all offered their services free of charge.
演員們都愿意免費出演。
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N-UNCOUNT
(為某組織或活動所做的)工作，服務，效勞
If you refer to someone's service or services to a particular organization or activity, you mean that they have done a lot of work for it or spent a lot of their time on it.
例句
You've given a lifetime of service to athletics...
你為田徑運動貢獻了一生。
More than half his long service in parliament has been as a cabinet minister.
他長期在議會任職，其中大半時間擔任內閣部長。
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N-COUNT
海陸空三軍;軍隊;部隊
The Services are the army, the navy, and the air force.
例句
In June 1945, Britain still had forty-five per cent of its workforce in the Services and munitions industries.
1945 年 6 月，英國仍然有45％的勞動力在部隊服役或就職于軍火工業。
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N-UNCOUNT
兵役;作戰
Service is the work done by people or equipment in the army, navy, or air force, for example during a war.
例句
The regiment was recruited from the Highlands specifically for service in India.
該軍團是專門為在印度作戰而從蘇格蘭高地征募來的。
...an aircraft carrier that saw service in World War II.
曾在二戰中服役的航空母艦
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N-UNCOUNT
(飯店、酒店，商店提供的)服務
When you receive service in a restaurant, hotel, or shop, an employee asks you what you want or gives you what you have ordered.
例句
A five-course meal including coffee, service and VAT is ￡30.
包括咖啡、服務費及增值稅在內，一頓五道菜正餐的價格為 30 英鎊。
...clean stores with respectful service and fair prices.
服務態度良好、價格公道、干凈整潔的店鋪
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N-COUNT
宗教禮儀;禮拜儀式
A service is a religious ceremony that takes place in a church.
例句
After the hour-long service, his body was taken to a cemetery in the south of the city.
在長達一小時的悼念儀式結束后，他的遺體被抬到了城南的一所公墓。
...the church in which the President was attending morning service.
總統做晨禱的教堂
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N-COUNT
整套餐具(或茶具)
A dinner service or a tea service is a complete set of plates, cups, saucers, and other pieces of china.
例句
...a 60-piece dinner service.
一套六十件套的餐具
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N-COUNT
(高速公路邊可加油、購物或用餐的)服務站
A services is a place beside a motorway where you can buy petrol and other things, or have a meal.
例句
They had to pull up, possibly go to a motorway services or somewhere like that...
他們只好停車，可能得去高速公路服務站之類的地方。
We have repeatedly told planners that services are vital on a motorway like the M40.
我們一再告知城市規劃者在諸如M40 之類的高速公路旁建服務站是必不可少的。
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N-COUNT
(網球、羽毛球等的)發球權，開球局
In tennis, badminton, and some other sports, when it is your service, it is your turn to serve.
例句
She conceded just three points on her service during the first set.
她在第一盤自己的發球局僅失了 3 分。
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ADJ
(大樓、建筑中的設施）員工專用的，后勤專用的
Service is used to describe the parts of a building or structure that are used by the staff who clean, repair, or look after it, and are not usually used by the public.
例句
He wheeled the trolley down the corridor and disappeared with it into the service lift.
他推著小推車走過走廊，之后進了員工專用電梯不見了。
...the bigger tunnels, which run either side of the service tunnel.
后勤隧道兩邊更大的隧道
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N-UNCOUNT
服侍;伺候
If someone is in service, they are working as a servant.
例句
If a young woman did not have a dowry, she went into domestic service.
如果一個年輕女子沒有嫁妝，她就要做家政服務賺錢。
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VERB
維修，檢修,維護(機器、車輛)
If you have a vehicle or machine serviced, you arrange for someone to examine, adjust, and clean it so that it will keep working efficiently and safely.
例句
I had had my car serviced at the local garage...
我已經把我的車送到當地汽修廠檢修了。
Make sure that all gas fires and central heating boilers are serviced annually.
確保所有的煤氣取暖器和中央供暖的鍋爐每年都檢修一次。
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VERB
(國家、組織)支付(債息)
If a country or organization services its debts, it pays the interest on them.
例句
Almost a quarter of the country's export earnings go to service a foreign debt of $29 billion.
該國幾乎 1/4 的出口收入都用來支付 290 億美元外債的利息了。
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VERB
為…提供服務;滿足…的需求
If someone or something services an organization, a project, or a group of people, they provide it with the things that it needs in order to function properly or effectively.
例句
There are now 400 staff at headquarters, servicing our regional and overseas work...
現在總部有 400 名職員負責地區和海外事務。
Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas will service our needs for some considerable time to come.
諸如煤、石油和天然氣之類的礦物燃料會在以后很長一段時間里滿足我們的需求。
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PHRASE
隨時可供…使用;隨時為…提供幫助
To be at the service of a person or organization means to be available to help or be used by that person or organization.
例句
The intellectual and moral potential of the world's culture must be put at the service of politics.
世界文化潛在的知識和道德力量一定要為政治所用。
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CONVENTION
隨時為您效勞;隨時聽您的吩咐
You can use 'at your service' after your name as a formal way of introducing yourself to someone and saying that you are willing to help them in any way you can.
例句
She bowed dramatically. 'Anastasia Krupnik, at your service,' she said.
她夸張地鞠了個躬。“阿納斯塔西婭·克魯布尼克，隨時為您效勞，”她說。
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PHRASE
幫…一個忙;對…有益
If you do someone a service, you do something that helps or benefits them.
例句
You are doing me a great service, and I'm very grateful to you...
你幫了我一個大忙，非常感激。
'You don't feel that you've betrayed your country?' — 'Not at all, I think I've done a service to my country.'
“你不覺得你背叛了你的祖國嗎？”——“一點也不，我認為我幫了我的國家。”
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PHRASE
(車輛、設備)在使用中,可以使用/(通常因發生故障而)未在使用
If a piece of equipment or type of vehicle is in service, it is being used or is able to be used. If it is out of service, it is not being used, usually because it is not working properly.
例句
Cuts in funding have meant that equipment has been kept in service long after it should have been replaced...
資金的削減意味著早該換掉的設備一直在長期運轉。
In 1882, London's first electric tram cars went into service...
1882 年，倫敦第一輛有軌電車投入使用。
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PHRASE
有用;有幫助
If someone or something is of service to you, they help you or are useful to you.
例句
That is, after all, the primary reason we live — to be of service to others.
別忘了，那是我們活著的主要原因——幫助他人。