The piece of furniture serves a dual purpose as a cupboard and as a table.

这件家具有两个用途，既作橱柜也作饭桌。

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In China, a host usually serves a visiting guest a cup of tea first when he enters his house.

在中国，当来访的客人进屋时，主人通常会先给他端上一杯茶。

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A common defense of sport hunting is that it serves a vital wildlife-management function, without which countless animals would succumb to starvation and disease.

运动狩猎的一个常见辩护是，它提供了至关重要的野生动物管理功能，没有它，无数的动物将会死于饥饿和疾病。

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Some friends are at an eating place that only serves a processed meat product from the United States called SPAM.

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He serves as something like a complicated double for the young, unpublished, and as of yet unproductive poet himself.

他就像一个复杂的替身，是那些年轻的，还没出版诗歌或是不多产的诗人自己的替身。

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It also serves a social and political function, because The portrait or picture of the universe or the world and its structure Corresponds to and legitimates the structure of Babylonian society.

它还有社会和政治功能,因为对宇庙或世界的描绘以及它的结构,与巴比伦社会的法律体系是一致的。

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It has a population of 147, 000 but serves a wider travel to work area of 500, 000.

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The Prince of Wales visited the same mosque, which serves a mainly Turkish community, last month.

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The barman serves a couple of Aussies, who he recognises from a couple of days ago.

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