This episode may serve as a paradigm.

这一插曲可以充作典型例子。

We served some crackers and cheese as an appetiser.

我们上干和奶酪作为开胃品。

Goldplated terminals reduce contact resistance and serve as anti-corrosion.

镀金端子降低接触电阻，并且可以防腐蚀。

He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.

战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。

Such stories serve as a spur to children's imagination.

这类故事能激发儿童的想像力。

When teleview, due and downy reflex serves as basic illume.

收看电视时，应有柔和的反射光作为基本的照明。

This development serves as an opportunity for the literati here.

这发展是文坛的机遇。

Plasmatron is a transformer in which plasma serves as a secondary coil.

该等离子体发生器是一种以等离子体作为二次线圈的变压器。

Now the examination score serves as the only criterion for a student's academic performance.

现在考试分数是衡量学生学业绩的唯一标准。

She prepared to undo the band of cloth around his arm which had served as tourniquet.

她准备解开缠在他胳臂上止血的布带。

The deduced formulae can serve as a reference and gist in dynamical geodesy and astrogeodynamics' research.

得出的理论可为动力大地测量学和天文地球动力学的研究提供理论参考和依据。

This Palaestra served as a gymnasium and a place to indoctrinate the young people in Augustan ideals.

建造它的目的是为给青年人灌输奥古斯都的理念提供一个场所。

When served as a canape the boereks should be piping hot so as not to be oily.

这道小吃最好趁热食用，就不会觉得太油腻。

A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a centime's worth of chestnuts.

把但丁的对开本拿来当作台子使，我们快，同吃一百个栗子。

Not be constrained on textbook, if you have thorough research to thingamy, can consider to study achievement serves as achievement.

不是拘泥于课本上的，如果你对某东西有深入研究，可以考虑研究果作为绩。

(grammar) serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb.

（语法学）用做动词的主语，或相当于系词的主语。

Longtao generally means figurant, because they always wear Longtao robes to serve as a foil to main actors on the stage.

龙套”就是群众演员，由于他们都穿着各色的龙套衣而得名。

It has been shown that a preoperative visit with the anesthesiologist immediately before surgery may serve as a powerful anxiolytic itself.

经验显示，术前一刻麻醉医生的访视本身就是一副强有力的镇静药。

Stations have often served as trysting places, as in Brief Encounter, and there are echoes perhaps of Rowling's own parents too.

车站适合约会，邂逅——这也许正是罗林自己的父母曾经相遇的场所。

Ambitious future observers might also send out probes that escape the supergalaxy and could serve as reference points for detecting a possible cosmic expansion.

有企图心的未来观测者，或许会发射一能够脱离超级星系的探测器，做为侦测宇宙膨胀的参考点。