Service is used to describe the parts of a building or structure that are used by the staff who clean, repair, or take care of it, and are not usually used by the public.
I went out through the kitchen and down the service lift.
我穿过厨房,乘员工专用电梯下楼。
services
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.
The postal service has been trying to cut costs.
邮政系统一直在试图削减成本。
We have started a campaign for better nursery and school services.
我们已开展了一场运动,以改善幼儿园和学校的服务。
The authorities have said they will attempt to maintain essential services.
当局已表示他们会努力维持基本的公共服务。
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.
The Agriculture Department has ultimate control over the Forest Service.
农业部对林务局有最终控制权。
If an organization or company provides a particular service, they can do a particular job or a type of work for you.
The kitchen maintains a twenty-four hour service and can be contacted via reception.
厨房提供24小时服务,可通过接待处联系。
The larger firm was capable of providing a better range of services.
较大的那间公司能提供更丰富的服务项目。
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.
Mining rose by 9.1, manufacturing by 9.4 and services by 4.3.
采矿业增长了9.1,制造业增长了9.4,服务业增长了4.3。
the doctrine that a highly developed service sector was the sign of a modern economy.
认为高度发达的服务业是现代经济特征的学说。
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.
Taking risks is the only way employees can provide effective and efficient customer service.
只有承担风险,雇员们才能提供高效的客户服务。
A bus or train service is a route or regular trip that is part of a transport system.
The local bus service is well run and extensive.
当地的公交运营良好,四通八达。
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.
I have obtained the services of a top photographer to take our pictures.
我得到了一位顶级摄影师的服务。
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.
You've given a lifetime of service to athletics.
你一生都致力于体育事业。
Most employees had long service with the company and were familiar with our products.
绝大部分雇员在公司供职多年,熟悉我们的产品。
The Services are the army, the navy, the air force and the marines.
Some of the money could be spent on persuading key specialists to stay in the Services.
可以花费一部分资金挽留重要专家留在军队工作。
Service is the work done by people or equipment in the army, navy, or air force, for example, during a war.
Units are being called up today for service in the Gulf.
今天正在征调一些部队去海湾服役。
When you receive service in a restaurant, hotel, or store, an employee asks you what you want or gives you what you have ordered.
Service was attentive and the meal proceeded at a leisurely pace.
服务很周到,可以悠闲从容地进餐。
A service is a religious ceremony that takes place in a church or synagogue.
After the hour-long service, his body was taken to a cemetery in the south of the city.
长达1小时的宗教仪式之后,他的遗体被送往城南的一座公墓里。
If a vehicle or machine has a service, it is examined, adjusted, and cleaned so that it will keep working efficiently and safely.
The car needs a service.
这辆车该检修了。
A dinner service or a tea service is a complete set of plates, cups, saucers, and other pieces of china.
a 60-piece dinner service.
一套60件的餐具。
In tennis, badminton, and some other sports, when it is your service, it is your turn to serve.
She conceded just three points on her service during the first set.
她在第1盘的发球局中只丢了3分。
do someone a service
If you do someone a service, you do something that helps or benefits them.
You are doing me a great service, and I'm very grateful to you.
你帮我一个大忙,我非常感谢你。
in service , out of service
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.
Cuts in funding have meant that equipment has been kept in service long after it should have been replaced.
资金削减意味着早该淘汰的设备却一直在使用。
In 1882, the city's first electric tram cars went into service.
1882年,该市第一批电车投入使用。
services , servicing , serviced
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.
I had my car serviced at the local garage.
我把车送到当地的汽车修理厂做了检修。
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.
There are now 400 staff at headquarters, servicing our regional and overseas work.
目前总部有400名员工致力于我们本地以及海外的工作。