devote
柯林斯词典
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…奉献给
He decided to devote the rest of his life to scientific investigation. 他决定把余生奉献给科学研究。
Considerable resources have been devoted to proving him a liar. 大量的资源已被用来证明他是个撒谎者。
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…专用
He devoted a major section of his massive report to an analysis of U.S. aircraft design. 他在那份厚重的报告中用一个主要章节分析了美国的飞机设计。
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