These reforms were proposed to make the government serve the people and carry out more fully their desire for social progress.

VOA: special.2010.09.16

And I think there was a time when that sense of dominion was used as justification for using those resources only to serve human needs.

我想，有一段时间里，这种统治感,被人们当做使用资源的借口,仅仅为了满足人类的需求。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Kinases can, in many cases, serve as a mechanism for switching a protein on or switching a protein off.

激酶能够,在很多情况下,能够激活一种蛋白或者关闭一种蛋白

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The program is meant to help prisoners develop work skills for the time after they serve their sentences.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Add to the above Hobbes' repeated insistence that law serve as an instrument for achieving social equality.

除此之外,霍布斯坚决主张,法律应当是维护社会公平和平等的工具。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Critics of the idea say the living areas in submarines are too small and narrow for men and women to serve together.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, saying let us be we will serve the Egyptians, for it's better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.

这跟你在埃及答应我们的不同，你说过让我们,我们应该服侍埃及人,伺候他们总比死在荒野中好。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And it increased the military strength of the Union by making it possible for free blacks to serve in the northern army.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Well, it turns out that we could not identify, at least at that point, a cell culture that would serve as a host for vaccinia.

然而我们还不能断定,至少这个时候无法断定,这些被感染的细胞就是牛痘病毒的宿主

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It was impossible for him to pay the government three hundred dollars or pay someone else to serve for him in the army.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Religion had to bring a softening effect upon against the violent and bestial character of the early Romans. But for us today, Machiavelli writes, religion has to serve the opposite purpose.

宗教必须带来一种缓和效应，用以针对,早期罗马人的野蛮残忍的性格,但是对于今天的我们来说，马基雅维利写道，宗教不得不为相反的目的服务。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But if the plan succeeds, it could serve as a model for America's biggest carmaker,General Motors.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

In the book,he says jeans serve as a sign for two American values, creativity and rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

He says his plan will save or create more than 3 million jobs over the next few years, and serve the economy for years to come.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

They are asked to serve for either one day or one trial.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

And they serve as nurseries for shrimp and other saltwater organisms.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

"Eating is the most important thing in any Indian household and how you show your love and gratitude for a person is through the kind of food you serve him.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

The Pakistani government has repeatedly said such attacks kill mostly civilians and only serve as a recruitment tool for Islamic militants.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

This he says,is necessary, and recalls that special housing was built for this brigade, where it can continue to serve.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

The space station complex will serve as observatory, laboratory and workshop for astronauts and cosmonauts who live and work there.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

And it's our country's national force and I live in a great country so it's an honor for me to serve here."

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Livestock help improve human nutrition, provide income and serve as a safety net for many poor farmers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Commander Harbour tells VOA News this latest incident - so far away from Somalia - should serve as a wake-up call for the international community.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

The Sunfull Movement's founder Min Byoung-chul says South Korea, with its years of experience in dealing with these social problems, can serve as a model for other nations.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

In one recent study - among the 1,000 he's published - Ayala establishes that gorillas and chimps may serve as reservoirs for the parasites that cause human malaria.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Marituu says this should serve as a caution signal for all historians.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"This will serve as a catalyst to help Nigeria to be ready, to improve itself, to look at the organization, to look at the quality of the facilities,and therefore I hope this will serve as a kind of stepping stone for Nigeria to be ready,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.22