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…奉獻給
He decided to devote the rest of his life to scientific investigation. 他決定把余生奉獻給科學研究。
Considerable resources have been devoted to proving him a liar. 大量的資源已被用來證明他是個撒謊者。
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. 他在那份厚重的報告中用一個主要章節(jié)分析了美國的飛機設(shè)計。