Picture a big pot in the middle of the table and one bowl being filled from it. The that leaves the pot and lands in front of one person is the whole idea: food measured out for somebody.
From the word’s history
The source analyses it simply as serve plus -ing, so the noun starts life as the action of serving and then also names what gets served.
來源就把它拆成 serve 加上 -ing。所以這個名詞一開始是「端出去這個動作」，後來連「端出去的那一份」也用同一個字。今天兩個意思都還在用，看前面接的是 the 還是 a 就分得出來。
Wiktionary, serving (by surface analysis, serve + -ing), supplied in this evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:807212037)
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原始詞典資料6 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。
servingnoun/ˈsɜːvɪŋ/
- 1
The act or process of serving.
- 2
An instance of that act or process.
- 3
The quantity of food or drink intended for one person in a single sitting; especially in relation to a meal.
- 4
A fraction or share.
- Very few Latino rock and roll bands, in the days before Santana, managed to successfully steal even a slight serving of the nation's auditory attention.
- 5
A layer added to the outside of an electrical cable to protect it.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。