It serves as a landing area for bees and other insects that spread pollen to the plant.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

They can live there until the death of the high priest, and the death of the high priest symbolically serves to purge or remove the blood guilt or impurity of the accidental homicide.

他们可以住在那里直到大祭司死去，大祭司的死亡象征着净化,或移除这个意外杀人者的罪孽或不洁。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"Logos He goes on. "But logos," he writes, " "serves to reveal the advantageous and the harmful.

也继续写到，主要是为展露出利害关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And hundreds of kinds of birds have been sighted in the park which serves as a stopping area for birds as they fly to other places.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

The alterations were done. That serves to please the audience. Then, it was happier.

后来为了取悦观众，做了一些改动,使结局稍微圆满些了。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

The King Center in Atlanta serves as a "living memorial" to Dr.King.

VOA: special.2011.01.17

It turns out when you give Aldopa to people, it gets converted biochemically into natural dopamine which then serves as its own agonist.

已经证明如果向人体中引入阿多巴,它就能通过生化过程转化为多巴胺,发挥激动剂作用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

For some,the scrutiny and publicizing of past intelligence operations serves no purpose but to aid America's enemies.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

If you go to the dining hall you know, the portions-- one person serves themselves this much of a food and another serves themselves another, and then when you go to a restaurant there are variations on how much you get served of things, and so it's very hard to estimate portions for people.

如果你去食堂,摄入量是指,一个人吃了自己的那部分食物,或其他人吃的他们的那一部分,当你去餐厅,每次吃多少是变化的,因此估算每个人的摄入量是很难的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

In addition to her research and teaching, Fuchs serves as president of the American Society for Cell Biology, and is president-elect of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

It may be that my chapter serves as introduction to you.

也许我那一章,可以被看作介绍性的一章。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Kusugak says that the Inuit symbol used to represent the Vancouver Winter Games serves a special purpose in his culture, illustrating that his people were in the region, where to find food or whether there is fuel for fire.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19