devote

  核心辭彙  
[dɪ'vəʊt]     [dɪ'voʊt]    
  • vt. 致力於;奉獻給;把...專用於
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devote的英文翻譯是什麼意思,詞典釋義與在線翻譯:

詳盡釋義

adj. (形容詞)
  1. <古>獻身的
n. (名詞)
  1. (女)熱心之士
v. (動詞)
  1. 專心致力於,致力(於),專心於
  2. 獻(身),貢獻,將...奉獻(給),供奉
  3. 把...專用(於)
  4. 聽任
  5. 專門追求
  6. 放在
  7. 專門陳列
  8. 集中
  9. 服務於
  10. 詛咒,咒罵
  11. 註定,命定

雙解釋義

v. (動詞)
  1. vt. 把…奉獻(給),把…專用(於) set apart for; give completely to

英英釋義

Verb:
  1. give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause;

    "She committed herself to the work of God"
    "give one's talents to a good cause"
    "consecrate your life to the church"

  2. dedicate;

    "give thought to"
    "give priority to"
    "pay attention to"

  3. set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use;

    "this land was devoted to mining"

devote的用法和樣例:

例句

用作及物動詞 (vt.)
  1. You must devote your attention to your work.
    你必須專心於工作。
  2. After he graduated, he continued to devote himself to the research.
    畢業以後,他繼續潛心於這項研究。
  3. He devoted himself entirely to music.
    他將一生奉獻給了音樂。
  4. He started to study ecology and decided to devote his whole life to the science.
    他開始研究生態學,並決心將他的一生獻身於這門學科。
  5. He devoted a great sum of money to books.
    他們花了一大筆錢買書。

常用短語

用作動詞 (v.)
devote to (v.+prep.)
    致力於… give (oneself) freely and with care to (sth)
    devote sth to sb/sth/v-ing

    The newspaper devoted a special column to a discussion of the problem of the world's population.

    這家報紙開闢專欄來討論世界人口問題。

    The newspaper devotes two pages to comics.

    報紙用兩頁版面來刊登漫畫。

    They agreed to devote part of the park to the playground.

    他們曾同意將公園的一部分闢為運動場。

    They are all terribly busy men and cannot be expected to devote their time to this investigation.

    他們都是非常忙的人,不能指望他們用全部時間去進行這一調查。

    He devotes his time to the garden.

    他把時間都用在花園裡了。

    Now she devoted most of the time to this work.

    現在她把大部分時間都用在這項工作上了。

    She devoted her life to the cause of peace.

    她把一生獻給了和平事業。

    He has been devoting his whole life to benefiting mankind.

    他把自己的一生貢獻給了造福人類的事業。

    Each nurse also devotes two evenings a week to studying medical literature in her field.

    每個護士每周還用兩個晚上來學習與她工作有關的醫學文獻。

    She devoted her life to helping homeless children.

    她的一生都在幫助無家可歸的孩子們。

    He devoted every Saturday afternoon to fishing.

    他把每個星期六下午的時間都花在釣魚上。

    He devoted all his spare time to helping his students with their English.

    他把所有的業餘時間都用來幫助他的學生學英語。

    She devoted too much time to dressing.

    她在穿著打扮上花的時間太多了。

    I have to devote part of my income to repaying my debts.

    我不得不拿出一部分收入來用於還債。

    We should devote every effort to finding out the principle contradiction.

    我們應該全力找出主要矛盾。

    This magazine is devoted to science.

    這種雜誌專載科學文章。

    This department of the store is devoted to machine tools and engineering needs.

    商店的這個部是專門經營車床和工程用品的。

    My lecture will be devoted to the study of aesthetics.

    我的演講專門談美學研究。

    I should think the Welsh are the only people in the world whose only national festival is devoted to music and poetry.

    我認為威爾士人是世界上在自己民族唯一的節日上進行音樂和詩歌表演的唯一民族。

    Utterly devoted to the people, he gave his life in saving his patients.

    他忠於人民,把畢生精力用於挽救患者的生命。

    We are quite devoted to the little girl.

    我們非常喜歡這個小女孩。

    Half of these plots are devoted to raising improved seeds.

    這些土地的一半被用來培育良種。

    devote oneself/sb to sb/sth/v-ing

    He devotes himself to his sick wife.

    他專心照顧著他生病的妻子。

    He devoted himself to his lessons.

    他專心致力於功課。

    Jim is devoted to his wife and family.

    吉姆極為關心他的妻子和家庭。

    All the soldiers were devoted to their leader.

    所有的士兵都忠於他們的統領。

    A true artist is devoted to his work.

    真正的藝術家獻身於他的藝術。

辭彙搭配

用作動詞 (v.)
~+名詞 ~+副詞 ~+介詞

經典引文

  • All Christians are by their Baptism devoted to God.

    出自: W. Law
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