devote的意思是：vt.致力于；奉献给；把...专用于。devote的例句是用作及物动词(vt.)You must devote your attention to your work.你必须专心于工作。devote【近义词】apply。
一、详尽释义点此查看devote的详细内容
二、双解释义
三、词典解释
1.献（身）；奉献，投入(时间、精力等)
If youdevote yourself, your time, or your energyto something, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it.
e.g. He decided todevote 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。
e.g. 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。
2.将(文章或讲话的某一部分)专用（于）
If youdevote a particular proportion of a piece of writing or a speechto a particular subject, you deal with the subject in that amount of space or time.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
四、例句
You must devote your attention to your work.
你必须专心于工作。
After he graduated, he continued to devote himself to the research.
毕业以后,他继续潜心于这项研究。
He devoted himself entirely to music.
他将一生奉献给了音乐。
He started to study ecology and decided to devote his whole life to the science.
他开始研究生态学,并决心将他的一生献身于这门学科。
He devoted a great sum of money to books.
他们花了一大笔钱买书。
五、常见句型
六、词汇搭配
七、词义辨析
devote的相关近义词
devote的相关反义词
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