devote
1.VERB 动词献(身);奉献,投入(时间、精力等) If you devote yourself, your time, or your energy to something, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it.
【语法信息】:V nto n/-ing
【语法信息】:V pron-reflto n/-ing
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。
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。
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。
2.VERB 动词将(文章或讲话的某一部分)专用(于) 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.
【语法信息】:V nto n
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。
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。
