subserve

1. By the condition of a thing we mean first, an existence, in short an immediate, and secondly the vocation of this immediate to be suspended and subserve the Actualising of something else.
   我们所说的，一个事物的条件，含有两种意义，第一是指一种定在，一种实存，简言之，指一种直接的东西。
2. In such governments administration has been organized to subserve the general weal with the simplicity and effectiveness vouchsafed only to the undertakings of a single will.
   在这样的政府当中，行政管理是按照为促进公共福利的目的而组织起来的，并且具有仅仅完成单一意志所规定的任务才可能具有的那种简便和效率。
3. Some researchers have argued for a dual-process model of source and item memory, namely the prefrontal regions subserve source memory and the hippocampal regions subserve item memory.
   一些人认为内容和来源记忆符合双加工模型：即前额叶参与来源记忆，而海马参与内容记忆；
4. This result also shows that inhibitory connection among neurons can subserve an adequate basis for stochastic oscillation.
   这表明神经元之间的抑制性联结可能是神经系统产生随机振荡的基础。
5. Labor transfer from the industry with lower marginal productivity to the high marginal productivity of industry, subserve narrow the gap of labor productivity between two departments, thus achieving the goal of narrowing the income gap between urban and rural areas.
   劳动力从边际生产力的产业转向边际生产力高的产业，有助于缩小两部门间的劳动力生产率的差距，进而达到缩小城乡收入差距的目的。

verb

1. be helpful or useful