1 VERB 献（身）；奉献，投入(时间、精力等) If you devote yourself, your time, or your energy to something, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it. 献（身）；奉献，投入(时间、精力等)
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He decided to devote the rest of his life to scientific investigation. [VERB noun + to]
他决定将自己的余生献给科学研究事业。
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Considerable resources have been devoted to proving him a liar. [VERB noun + to]
为了证明他是个骗子已投入了相当多的人力和财力。
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She gladly gave up her part-time job to devote herself entirely to her art. [VERB pronoun-reflexive + to]
她欣然辞去了兼职工作，全身心地投入到她的艺术中去。
SYN dedicate, give, commit, apply
2 VERB 将(文章或讲话的某一部分)专用（于） 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. 将(文章或讲话的某一部分)专用（于）
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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。
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Page upon page is devoted to the chain of events leading to the Prime Minister's resignation. [VERB noun to noun]
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。
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