devotes

英 [dɪˈvəʊts]

美 [dɪˈvoʊts]

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)
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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

• He devotes some time to philanthropy, including chairing a taskforce at Harvard on financial aid.
  他抽出一些时间从事慈善活动，包括在哈佛大学领导一个助学金工作组。
• Devotes lives at home the environment to the beautification, creates the good light culture.
  致力于美化家居生活环境，创造良好的光文化。
• She devotes a chapter to discussing six: philosophy, English, history, anthropology, political science, and economics.
  她花费一章的篇幅讨论了六个学科：哲学、英语、历史、人类学、政治学和经济学。
• Company devotes to the fresh vegetables processing and sales, established the effective sales channels.
  公司致力于保鲜蔬菜的加工和销售，建立了有效的销售渠道。
• Each nurse also devotes two evenings a week to studying medical literature in her field.
  每个护士每周还用两个晚上来学习与她工作有关的医学文献。
• He sporadically devotes time to photo journalism, mainly in the magazines, Film a doba and Ateli é r.
  他偶尔用了新闻照片的时间主要在杂志，电影一科尔多瓦和画室。
• He devotes all his life in serving people.
  他把他的一生献给了为人民服务（的事业）。
• He devotes his time to the acquisition of knowledge.
  他把时间都花在求知上。
• Life Confucianism devotes itself to the rebuilding of Confucian metaphysics.
  生活儒学致力于儒家形而上学在生活本源上的重建。
• HONG KONG devotes much effort to caring for and supporting those least able to take care of themselves.
  香港致力照顾和支援社会上最缺乏自我照顾能力的人。