devoting

英 [dɪˈvəʊtɪŋ]

美 [dɪˈvoʊtɪŋ]

v.  献(身); 奉献，投入(时间、精力等); 将(文章或讲话的某一部分)专用(于)
devote的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 献（身）；奉献，投入(时间、精力等)
  If youdevoteyourself, your time, or your energytosomething, you spend all or most of your time or energy on it.
  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。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
• VERB 将(文章或讲话的某一部分)专用（于）
  If youdevotea particular proportion of a piece of writing or a speechtoa particular subject, you deal with the subject in that amount of space or time.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• But early success often comes with the cost of devoting your childhood to hard work rather than play.
  但过早的成功往往伴随着把童年奉献给辛苦工作、而不是玩耍的代价。
• I quickly became an active participant, devoting entire mornings to reading and replying to postings.
  我很快变成了这一社区的积极参与者。我会花一整个上午来阅读、回复上面的帖子。
• For decades, Qianyi has been devoting herself to developing high efficient and low cost techniques for wastewater treatment.
  钱易院士数十年来致力于研究开发适合我国国情的高效、低耗废水处理新技术；
• He is devoting his ability in his station.
  他在自己的岗位上默默地奉献自己的才华。
• Of course, we know that devoting a week each November to entrepreneurship will not sufficiently alter the environment.
  当然，我们深知一点，每年十一月用一周的时间来推广创业精神远不足以改变整个创业环境。
• A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work.
  居住在修道院并且潜心沉思、祈祷和干活的男修道士。
• He will be devoting more time to writing, broadcasting and lecturing
  他将把更多时间用于写作、广播和作讲座。
• I'm devoting all my time to the case.
  对这个案子我会全力以赴的。
• I sincerely hope to join you in devoting myself to the development of your company.
  留学解答资讯网：我真心希望加入贵公司，竭尽我所能为贵公司的发展出一份力量。
• Braille was now devoting all his time to his new system, but no one was listening.
  此时，布莱叶已经为他的新系统奉献了他的全部的时间。但是，没人倾听。