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self-serve

/self-sur-vis/US // ˈsɛlfˈsɜr vɪs //

自助服务,自我服务,自助式服务,自主服务

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the system of serving oneself in a restaurant, shop, gas station, or other facility, without the aid of a waiter, clerk, attendant, etc.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting or pertaining to a cafeteria, store, etc., designed for the patron or customer to gather food or merchandise from a display counter or shelves without the aid of attendants and pay at a cashier's desk upon leaving.
    • : of, for, or pertaining to something designed to be used or enjoyed without the aid of an attendant: self-service banking; self-service elevators.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

  • Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.

  • For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.

  • I went into the audition as Fericito, the Venezuelan percussionist, and then I did a self-defense expert.

  • Those who come to the Dinner Party are self-selecting; they do want to talk about it.

  • The proceedings of the day commenced with divine service, performed by Unitarian and Baptist ministers.

  • Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  • Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

  • The badness of the gunpowder used by the Mexicans, was again of great service to us.

  • At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.