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

• 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。
• He devotes a lot of time to his hobbies.
  他在业务爱好上花了好多时间。
• This time around he devotes four paragraphs to the case for stocks.
  而这一次他只用了四段话谈股票投资。
• 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。
• 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 company devotes to technical research and development of new products.
  近年来，公司致力于碳纤维设备的研发，并取得巨大成功。
• He often devotes his time and energy to working on the farm.
  他常常把时间和精力用于农场的工作中。
• 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。
• 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。
• She devotes all her love to her children.
  她把全部的爱都倾注在孩子身上。