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

• 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。
• He often devotes his time and energy to working on the farm.
  他常常把时间和精力用于农场的工作中。
• HONG KONG devotes much effort to caring for and supporting those least able to take care of themselves.
  香港致力照顾和支援社会上最缺乏自我照顾能力的人。
• 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。
• He devotes some time to philanthropy, including chairing a taskforce at Harvard on financial aid.
  他抽出一些时间从事慈善活动，包括在哈佛大学领导一个助学金工作组。
• Devotes lives at home the environment to the beautification, creates the good light culture.
  致力于美化家居生活环境，创造良好的光文化。
• He devotes a lot of time to his hobbies.
  他在业务爱好上花了好多时间。
• This is an honor, even if I have not attained this prize, I still longed for that devotes Philippine police the enterprise.
  这是一个荣誉，即便我没拿到这个奖，我仍渴望献身菲律宾警察事业。
• Only one book ( Maciaszek) devotes twenty-three pages to use cases and employs them in case studies.
  只有一本书（Maciaszek）用了23页的篇幅讲授用例并将这些知识应用到实际的案例研究当中。
• The company devotes to technical research and development of new products.
  近年来，公司致力于碳纤维设备的研发，并取得巨大成功。