devote

1. devote sth to (doing) sth 把时间(钱，精力等)献给某事物。

如： They devoted a great deal of money to the improvement of the railway station. 他们花了一大笔钱来改善火车站的条件。

He devoted all his free time to playing the piano. 他把所有的业余的时间都用来d钢琴。

2. devote oneself to sb (doing sth) (1) 献身于或致力于(做)某事。

如： After he graduated he continued to devote himself to research. 毕业之后他继续致力于研究工作。

He devoted himself to helping the poor. 他致力于帮助穷人。

(2) 专用于。

如： The newspaper devotes two pages to comics. 这份报纸用两页版面刊登连环漫画。

(3) 喜欢，热爱。

如： She devoted herself to tennis in her teens. 她在少女时代热衷于网球。

3. be devoted to sb (doing sth) (1) 致力于，献身于。

如： The students are devoted to their studies. 学生们专心于学习。

(2) 专用于。

如： This dictionary is devoted to explaining word usage. 这本词典是解释词的用法的。

(3) 喜欢，疼爱。

如： She is devoted to her children. 她疼爱她的孩子。

The couple were devoted to each other. 两夫妻感情很好。

例句：1.He decided to devote 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。

《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》2.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。

《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》3.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。

《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》4.She gladly gave up her part-time job to devote herself entirely to her art.她欣然辞去了兼职工作，全身心地投入到她的艺术中去。

《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》5.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。

《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》6.You want a husband who is solid and stable, someone who will devote himself to you你要的是一个可靠而稳重的丈夫——一个全心全意对你的人。

《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》7.Faculty members devote most of their time to scholarly research.全院教师大部分时间都用来从事学术研究。

《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》8.She had started to devote her energies to teaching rather than performing她已经开始将精力从表演转移到教学中。

《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》9.I will devote all my life to the cause of education.我愿把毕生献给教育事业。

《汉英大词典》10.It enabled students to devote more time to their studies, or to be more accurate, more time to relaxation.它可以让学生们有更多的时间来学习，或者更准确一点说，有更多的时间来放松自己。

《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》11.He is determined to devote his life to sicence.他决心把毕生精力贡献给科学事业。

《汉英大词典》12.Tom Banbury was preoccupied with the missing Shepherd child and did not want to devote time to the new murder汤姆·班伯里一心寻找谢泼德家失踪的孩子，不想花时间处理这起新的谋杀案。

《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》13.You should devote your chief energies to your studies.你应该把主要精力用在学习上。

百度翻译例句库14.The scientific investigation team devote themselves to seeking for traces of primitive man.科考队一直致力于找寻原始人类的遗踪。

百度翻译例句库以下例句来源于网络，仅供参考15.This is worth all the time and money I devote to learning and practice.从这点看，我花在学习和联系上的时间和金钱还是值得的。

blog.sina.com.cn16.We should pay closer attention and devote greater efforts to this.我们在这一方面，应该有进一步的注意和努力。

www.dictall.com17.I will badger with you for a life time, I will devote all my life to loving you.我会与你缠绵一生，我将用我所有的生命爱你。

wenwen.soso.com18.Embroidery was a good pastime to which they might devote their intelligence and passion.刺绣是一个很好的消遣和他们可能贡献自己的智慧和热情。

www.cdjnp.cn19.You accept responsibility and devote your energy to do whatever you can to improve matters.你承担起了责任，并会将精力投入到任何改善问题的行动中。

bbs.chinadaily.com.cn20.I feel it necessary to devote the time and love to helping the ones who are in trouble.我感到有必要贡献时间和爱心帮助处于困境中的人。

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首先记住词理：前缀de=down, off, out，根词vote本义=“意愿/选择”，常意=投票。

因此，devote字面意思是：把选择意愿投放出去。

记住常用意：投身于，奉献给，致力于。

属于“予格动词”，与give相似，宾语自己或自己的xxx，to宾语是事项。

大致搭配有两类。

其一：devote oneself to something 把自己投身于，使自己致力于，执着与，忙于。

例1.Recently, he has been devoting himself to roting English for overseas development.为了出国深造，最近他一直在攻读英语。

例2.Anyone who devotes himself to pseudo scicence will go to failure.执迷于伪科学的人必然一事无成。

其二，devote one's xxx to something.把自己的xxx奉献给，致力于。

例3.I will devote my life to the course of writing.我愿把自己毕生精力投身于写作事业。

例4.He has devoted all of his property to the helping poverty.他嫣然把自己所有财产奉献给了扶贫事业。

注意：one's 翻译成“自己的”。