Picture a set of scales: because of how you acted, you have 'earned' something and it is now owed to you — good or bad. Deserve says the outcome fits what you put in.
From the word’s history
From Latin deservire 'to serve well, serve zealously' (de- 'completely' + servire 'to serve'). In Late Latin it shifted to 'be entitled to because of good service' — you earn what you get by how you serve, which is exactly today's 'deserve.'
源自拉丁文 deservire「盡心服事、好好效力」（de-「徹底」加 servire「服事」）。到晚期拉丁文轉成「因為服事得好而理當得到」——你憑著怎麼做去掙來你該得的，正好就是今天 deserve 的意思。
Etymonline, https://www.etymonline.com/word/deserve
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
deserveverb/dɪˈzɜːv/
- 1
To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.
- After playing so well, the team really deserved their win.
- After what he did, he deserved to go to prison.
- 2
obsoleteTo earn, win.
- 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.
- 3
obsoleteTo reward, to give in return for service.
- Gramercy saide the kynge / & I lyue sir Lambegus I shal deserue hit / And thenne sir Lambegus armed hym / and rode after as fast as he myghte
- 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.
- 4
obsoleteTo serve; to treat; to benefit.
- c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman A man that hath / So well deserved me.
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