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

• It also devotes itself to developing and investing broadband Internet based communications, entertainment and media services.
  并致力于开发创新并投资运营基于宽带互联网的通信、娱乐和传媒服务。
• Sang Lan devotes all her energy, time and money to helping the disabled.
  桑兰奉献出所有的精力、时间和钱来帮助残疾人。
• 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。
• She devotes a lot of time to her hobbies.
  她在爱好上花了很多时间。
• The policeman devotes his life to the people in the fight today.
  在今天的战斗中警察把他的生命献给了人民。
• This is an honor, even if I have not attained this prize, I still longed for that devotes Philippine police the enterprise.
  这是一个荣誉，即便我没拿到这个奖，我仍渴望献身菲律宾警察事业。
• The novel devotes two chapters to describing the main characters.
  这本小说用了两个章节来专门描述其中的主要人物。
• Fairley devotes one chapter to what he calls "implementation issues," and one to modern programming languages.
  Fairley阐述他称为“实现论题”和现代编程语言各使用了一个章节。
• 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）。
• Who devotes his life to the perfection of experience? Yes, I know him.
  穷尽一生去完美他的经历？对，我知道他。