deserve

英語

詞源

繼承自中古英語 deserven，來自古法語 deservir，來自拉丁語 dēserviō，來自dē- + serviō。

發音

• (標準英音，澳大利亞) 國際音標^(幫助): /dɪˈzɜːv/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /dɪˈzɝv/, /dəˈzɝv/

  • 音頻 (美國)：

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• 斷字：de‧serve
• 韻部：-ɜː(ɹ)v

動詞

deserve (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 deserves，現在分詞 deserving，一般過去時及過去分詞 deserved)

1. (及物) 值得，應得

   After playing so well, the team really deserved their win.

   打得如此出色，這支球隊確實配得上勝利。

   After what he did, he deserved to go to prison.

   他做了那樣的事，就該坐牢。

   This argument deserves a closer examination.

   這一論點值得進一步研究。

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 11:6:

     God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

     神追討你，比你罪孽該得的還少。

   • 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century:

     John Gay deserved to be a favourite.

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   • 1967, The Pacific Reporter，第 510 頁:

     the grantees named in the questioned deed executed by their father richly deserved receiving the family home.

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   • 2008, Michael Walzer, Spheres Of Justice: A Defense Of Pluralism And Equality，第 24 頁:

     Perhaps they do, but they don't deserve that the rest of us contribute money or appropriate public funds for the purchase of pictures and the construction of buildings.

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2. (棄用) 贏得，獲得
   • 1590, 埃德蒙·斯宾塞, 「Book III, Canto VII」, 出自 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]）, London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     That gentle Lady, whom I loue and serue, / After long suit and weary seruicis, / Did aske me, how I could her loue deserue, / And how she might be sure, that I would neuer swerue.

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3. (棄用) 獎賞，回報
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   • 约1603–1604年, 威廉·莎士比亚, 「The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice [奧賽羅]」, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (第一对开本), 伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, (請用大寫羅馬數字指定劇本幕號，並用小寫羅馬數字指定劇本場號):

     Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call; / I may command at most. Get weapons, ho! / And raise some special officers of night. / On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.

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4. (棄用) 服務；款待；使得益
   • c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman

     A man that hath / So well deserved me.

同義詞

• merit
• 參見Thesaurus:deserve

衍生詞

• well-deserved

相關詞

• desert
• serve someone right

延伸閱讀

• OneLook 在線詞典 上有關 deserve 的釋義
• 「deserve」，The Century Dictionary […]，New York, N.Y.：The Century Co.，1911，OCLC 867766587

異序詞

• Veeders, severed