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 nton/-ing
【语法信息】:V pron-reflton/-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 nton
  • 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。

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