I tell you, you want love to administer to your egoism, to subserve you. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Ah, if only he had asked HER to subserve him, to be his slave! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
He valued the sciences, not on their own account, but as they might subserve the purposes of the orator. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Fulton’s attention was drawn from canal-building to the possibility of some invention that might tend to subserve peace, and this in time led him to design and build the first torpedo. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
But there is no doubt that besides removing dirt of all kinds, they subserve other functions; and one of these apparently is defence. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
I grant that this Liberia may have subserved all sorts of purposes, by being played off, in the hands of our oppressors, against us. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.