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.

我们上了些饼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。

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

收看电视时，应有柔和反射光作为基本照明。

This development serves as an opportunity for the literati here.

这些发展是文坛机遇。

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

这类故事能激发儿童想像力。

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唯一标准。

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

得出理论可为动力量学和天文球动力学研究提供理论参考和依据。

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布带。

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

建造它目是为了给青年人灌输奥古斯都理念提供一个场所。

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.

把但丁对开本拿来当作台子使，我们快乐无边，同吃了一百个栗子。

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

（语法学）用做动词主语，或相当于系词主语。

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，如果你对某东西有深入研究，可以考虑研究果作为绩。

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，术前一刻麻醉医生访视本身就是一副强有力镇静药。

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龙套衣而得名。

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父母曾经相遇场所。

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

有企图心未来观者，或许会发射一些能够脱离超级星系探器，做为侦宇宙膨胀参考点。