devotes

英 [dɪˈvəʊts]

美 [dɪˈvoʊts]

v.  献(身); 奉献，投入(时间、精力等); 将(文章或讲话的某一部分)专用(于)
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柯林斯词典

• VERB 献（身）；奉献，投入(时间、精力等)
  If youdevoteyourself, your time, or your energytosomething, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it.
  1. He decided to devote the rest of his life to scientific investigation...
     他决定将自己的余生献给科学研究事业。
  2. Considerable resources have been devoted to proving him a liar...
     为了证明他是个骗子已投入了相当多的人力和财力。
  3. She gladly gave up her part-time job to devote herself entirely to her art.
     她欣然辞去了兼职工作，全身心地投入到她的艺术中去。
• VERB 将(文章或讲话的某一部分)专用（于）
  If youdevotea particular proportion of a piece of writing or a speechtoa particular subject, you deal with the subject in that amount of space or time.
  1. He devoted a major section of his massive report to an analysis of US aircraft design...
     在他的长篇报告中，他用了很大的篇幅来分析美国飞机的设计。
  2. Page upon page is devoted to the chain of events leading to the Prime Minister's resignation.
     一页又一页的篇幅都用来描述导致首相辞职的一连串事件。

双语例句

• She devotes a lot of time to her hobbies.
  她在爱好上花了很多时间。
• He devotes a lot of time to his hobbies.
  他在业务爱好上花了好多时间。
• Who devotes his life to the perfection of experience? Yes, I know him.
  穷尽一生去完美他的经历？对，我知道他。
• The novel devotes two chapters to describing the main characters.
  这本小说用了两个章节来专门描述其中的主要人物。
• She devotes all her love to her children.
  她把全部的爱都倾注在孩子身上。
• The policeman devotes his life to the people in the fight today.
  在今天的战斗中警察把他的生命献给了人民。
• Fairley devotes one chapter to what he calls "implementation issues," and one to modern programming languages.
  Fairley阐述他称为“实现论题”和现代编程语言各使用了一个章节。
• The company also devotes to brush manufacture, with production of each kind and specifications of tin brush;
  公司同时致力于毛刷制造，生产各种规格和各种用途的铁皮刷；
• Each nurse also devotes two evenings a week to studying medical literature in her field.
  每个护士每周还用两个晚上来学习与她工作有关的医学文献。
• RCM devotes to establish its own academic norm, managing strategy and exhibition mechanism.
  南画廊努力建立自己的学术标准、经营策略和展览机制。