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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He devotes his time to the acquisition of knowledge.
  他把时间都花在求知上。
• 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。
• She devotes a lot of time to her hobbies.
  她在爱好上花了很多时间。
• 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。
• 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。
• The author devotes the first three chapters to the subject.
  作者用前三章阐述这个问题。