He served as a captain in the army.

他曾是一名陆军上尉。

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He has served as a Democratic senator for Texas since 2000.

自2000年以来，他一直是得克萨斯州的民主党参议员。

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She ushered me into the front room, which served as her office.

她领我进入前厅，那儿用做她的办公室了。

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In the seventeen hundreds, the land on which the Harborplace development was built served as a trade center for Baltimore.

VOA: special.2011.01.30

I served as Master of Silliman College for six years and during that time I would get up at 5 or 5:30 in the morning and start working.

我在西利曼学院当了六年院长,那时我会在早上五点或五点半起床,并开始工作

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Once again, the computer revolution has served as an illustrative case study.

我们再次以计算机革命为例,来说明这个问题。

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Mr Lundestad served as the committee's influential, but non-voting, secretary from 1990 to 2015.

BBC: Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize

Prior to that, Phillips served as an investigative reporter and anchor for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.

CNN: CNN Profiles - Kyra Phillips - Correspondent

Before returning to Atlanta in October 2010, Vause served as CNN's senior international correspondent in Beijing.

CNN: CNN Profiles - John Vause - Anchor/Correspondent