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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。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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Under those conditions it is worse still to be devoting those resources to weapons,"
VOA: standard.2009.09.15
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I can only imagine though, at this point in the semester, what will become Milton's eventual championing of marriage is pretty hard to imagine, in part because we're just devoting our second class to a literary work given almost entirely to the virtue of chastity.
然而我只能认为，在学期的这个时候，什么将成为弥尔顿婚姻的最终捍卫者,一定难以想象，一部分是因为,我们的第二节课一直在讨论,关于贞洁的美德的作品。
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But the Uruguayan leader, a doctor by training,lamented that Latin American governments are devoting growing resources to armaments rather than dealing with pressing social needs including health and education.
VOA: standard.2009.09.15
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