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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The company also devotes to brush manufacture, with production of each kind and specifications of tin brush;
  公司同时致力于毛刷制造，生产各种规格和各种用途的铁皮刷；
• The author devotes the first three chapters to the subject.
  作者用前三章阐述这个问题。
• 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。
• Then he devotes the whole day to catering to my every whim and desire.
  然后他一整天都会迎合我每一个突发奇想和要求。