柯林斯英汉双解大词典
devote /dɪˈvəʊt/ CET4 TEM4 ( devoting, devoted, devotes )
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V-T If you devote yourself, your time, or your energy to something, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it. 把…奉献给
例：He decided to devote the rest of his life to scientific investigation.
他决定把余生奉献给科学研究。
例：Considerable resources have been devoted to proving him a liar.
大量的资源已被用来证明他是个撒谎者。
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V-T If you devote a particular proportion of a piece of writing or a speech to a particular subject, you deal with the subject in that amount of space or time. 作…专用
例：He devoted a major section of his massive report to an analysis of U.S. aircraft design.
他在那份厚重的报告中用一个主要章节分析了美国的飞机设计。
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The doctor devotes all his time to saving people's life, winning respect from the country.
这位医生致力于挽救人们的生命，因而赢得国家的尊重。
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He devotes his time to the acquisition of knowledge.
他把时间用在获取知识上。
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(NO TRANSCRIPTS) The journal Health Affairs devotes its February issue to "E-Health in the Developing World,"
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Milton devotes a lot of time in Areopagitica to making a number of attempts to distinguish licensing from censorship.
弥尔顿在《论出版自由》中花了很大功夫,试图区分出版许可管理和出版控制。
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Orpheus devotes himself to his beautiful poetry, and he keeps himself sexually abstinent.
俄耳甫斯致力于写优美的诗歌，在性方面保持节制。
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