devote

柯林斯詞典

1. V-T If you devote yourself, your time, or your energy to something, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it. 把…奉獻(xiàn)給
He decided to devote the rest of his life to scientific investigation. 他決定把餘生奉獻(xiàn)給科學(xué)研究。
Considerable resources have been devoted to proving him a liar. 大量的資源已被用來証明他是個(gè)撒謊者。
2. V-T If you devote a particular proportion of a piece of writing or a speech to a particular subject, you deal with the subject in that amount of space or time. 作…專用
He devoted a major section of his massive report to an analysis of U.S. aircraft design. 他在那份厚重的報(bào)告中用一個(gè)主要章節(jié)分析了美國(guó)的飛機(jī)設(shè)計(jì)。