serve简单

When it comes to restoration, we have to stay with an awareness of whose interests to serve.

谈到恢复工作，我们必须始终清楚要为谁的利益服务。

When it was established, the National Health Service (NHS) was visionary: offering high-quality, timely care to meet the dominant needs of the population it served.

国民医疗服务体系（NHS）在建立之初颇具远见：提供高质量、及时的医疗服务，满足其所服务人群的主要需求。

serve a broader range of purposes.

服务于更广泛的目的。

serve

服务于；有助于

But I believe that well-run zoos, and the heroic animals that suffer their captivity, do serve a higher purpose.

但我相信，经营良好的动物园以及忍受圈养的英勇动物们，确实服务于一个更崇高的目的。

Job security or stability was the second most important career goal (work-life balance was number one), followed by a sense of being dedicated to a cause or to feel good about serving the greater good.

工作保障或稳定性是第二重要的职业目标（排在第一位的是工作与生活的平衡），其次是献身于某项事业的感觉或为更大的公共利益服务而感到满足。

However, the use of artificial grass must comply with the legal and policy safeguards in place to protect biodiversity and ensure sustainable drainage, while measures such as the strengthened biodiversity duty should serve to encourage public authorities to consider sustainable alternatives.”

不过，人造草坪的使用必须遵守现行的法律和政策保障措施，以保护生物多样性并确保可持续排水；同时，诸如强化的生物多样性义务之类的措施应当促使公共机构考虑可持续的替代方案。”

Zoos are, in that sense, similar to natural history and archaeology museums, serving to satisfy our need for contact with these living creatures while leaving the vast majority undisturbed in their natural environments.

从这个意义上说，动物园类似于自然历史博物馆和考古博物馆，既满足了我们接触这些生灵的需求，又让绝大多数动物在其自然环境中不受打扰。

"There has been a kind of revival or a rethinking about what guilt is and what role guilt can serve," says Amrisha Vaish, a psychology researcher at the University of Virginia, adding that this revival is part of a larger recognition that emotions aren't binary — feelings that may be advantageous in one context may be harmful in another.

“关于内疚是什么、内疚能起什么作用，出现了一种复兴或者说重新思考，”弗吉尼亚大学心理学研究员阿姆丽莎·韦什说。她还补充说，这种复兴是一种更广泛认识的一部分，即情绪并非非此即彼——在一种情境中可能有益的感受，在另一种情境中可能有害。

served

端上（食物）

serving

服务；端上

They serve no purpose in a museum in the United States or elsewhere except as curious objects.

它们放在美国或其他地方的博物馆里，除了充当猎奇之物外毫无用处。

DNT may not serve its intended purpose.

DNT可能无法达到预期目的。

Next time somebody pushes corporate quotas as a way to promote gender equity, remember that such policies are largely self-serving measures that make their sponsors feel good but do little to help average women.

下次再有人推行企业配额制作为促进性别平等的方式时，请记住，这类政策在很大程度上是自私自利的措施，只会让发起者自我感觉良好，对普通女性却几乎毫无帮助。

This concept has served as a central goal for curriculum developers, local school boards, business and community leaders, and policymakers ever since its introduction nearly 80 years ago.

自近80年前提出以来，这一概念一直是课程开发者、地方学校董事会、商界和社区领袖以及政策制定者的核心目标。

At the time of creation, no attempts were made at intentional preservation, yet analog materials have a chance of surviving and serving as the historical record that biographers, historians, and novelists rely on.

在创作之时，人们并没有刻意去保存它们，但模拟（实物）材料却有机会留存下来，成为传记作家、历史学家和小说家所依赖的历史记录。

In some areas, high daytime temperatures alone might serve as an adequate trigger for alerts.

在一些地区，仅白天高温就足以作为触发警报的依据。

In online spaces, desire paths have sparked a fascination that can approach obsession, with the Reddit page serving as a hub.

在网络空间，欲望小径激起了近乎痴迷的兴趣，而那个Reddit页面就是聚集地。

From the 10th century onwards, as merchant and travel routes became more developed, the [construction] of caravanserais increased and they served as a safe place for people to rest at night.

从10世纪起，随着商贸和旅行路线日益发达，商队客栈的修建数量增加，成为人们夜间休息的安全场所。

Caravanserais served as an informal [meeting] point for the various people who travelled the Silk Road.

商队客栈成为往来丝绸之路的各色人等的非正式聚会点。