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 his time to the acquisition of knowledge.
  他把时间都花在求知上。
• 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。
• 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。
• He devotes a lot of time to his hobbies.
  他在业务爱好上花了好多时间。
• She devotes all her love to her children.
  她把全部的爱都倾注在孩子身上。
• 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。
• 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。
• Only one book ( Maciaszek) devotes twenty-three pages to use cases and employs them in case studies.
  只有一本书（Maciaszek）用了23页的篇幅讲授用例并将这些知识应用到实际的案例研究当中。
• 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）。
• This paper devotes to the study of developmental strategy of HB Company.
  本文致力于HB公司发展战略的研究。