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

• Start with something small and work your way up to devoting more and more time to your project.
  开始与一些小国和工作的方式行动投入更多的时间您的项目。
• He was amazed at how quickly things changed when he started devoting more time and energy to her.
  他很惊奇当他开始对她多付出时间和精力时，事情会改变得那么快。
• 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。
• Devoting disproportionate resources to your champions is important.
  为你的业绩冠军投入超常比例的资源是非常重要的。
• He is devoting much of his energy to implanting an element of distrust in the community.
  他竭力在社区内撒播猜疑的种子。
• I'm devoting all my time and energy to caring for my son right now.
  目前我把所有的时间和精力都放在照顾儿子上。
• He has been devoting his whole life to benefiting mankind.
  他把自己的一生贡献给了造福人类的事业。
• Most students are making full use of their time and devoting themselves to their studies.
  大多数的门生充分利用时候，全身心投入到学习中去。
• 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。
• This year, Peng has been devoting himself to making movies.
  今年，彭于晏一直投身于电影事业。但是他出演的角色与以往有所不同。