devoting

英 [dɪˈvəʊtɪŋ]

美 [dɪˈvoʊtɪŋ]

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)
devote的现在分词

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

• Start with something small and work your way up to devoting more and more time to your project.
  开始与一些小国和工作的方式行动投入更多的时间您的项目。
• For decades, Qianyi has been devoting herself to developing high efficient and low cost techniques for wastewater treatment.
  钱易院士数十年来致力于研究开发适合我国国情的高效、低耗废水处理新技术；
• I quickly became an active participant, devoting entire mornings to reading and replying to postings.
  我很快变成了这一社区的积极参与者。我会花一整个上午来阅读、回复上面的帖子。
• But early success often comes with the cost of devoting your childhood to hard work rather than play.
  但过早的成功往往伴随着把童年奉献给辛苦工作、而不是玩耍的代价。
• Likewise, less time is spent pursuing activities that one enjoys and devoting on personal and spiritual growth.
  同样，花费在从事自己喜欢的活动以及用于个人自我发展和情操陶冶的时间也更少。
• This year, Peng has been devoting himself to making movies.
  今年，彭于晏一直投身于电影事业。但是他出演的角色与以往有所不同。
• I'm devoting all my time and energy to caring for my son right now.
  目前我把所有的时间和精力都放在照顾儿子上。
• Braille was now devoting all his time to his new system, but no one was listening.
  此时，布莱叶已经为他的新系统奉献了他的全部的时间。但是，没人倾听。
• I'm devoting all my time to the case.
  对这个案子我会全力以赴的。
• Someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work.
  在度假中的人；把时间花在乐趣和娱乐上而不是花在工作上的人。