v.动词
他专心致志地学习英语。❌ He devotes his attention to study English.
✔️ He devotes his attention to studying English.
✔️ He devotes his attention to the study of English.
析 devote to后只能接名词或动名词作宾语,而不能接动词不定式。
他把许多业余时间用在体育运动上。❌ He devoted much of his spare time for sports.
✔️ He devoted much of his spare time to sports.
析 “把…用在”应用devote…to, to和for不可以换用。
她忠于职守。❌ She devoted to her duty.
✔️ She devoted herself to her duty.
✔️ She was devoted to her duty.
析 devote是及物动词,须接宾语,表示“忠于,献身于”等应用devote oneself to或be devoted to的形式。
他把所有的钱都捐献给了那户穷苦人家。❌ He devoted all his money to the poor family.
✔️ He contributed all his money to the poor family.
析 devote的宾语一般是抽象事物,如生命、时间、精力等。宾语如果是一些具体的东西,如钱、书籍、衣物等,则须用动词contribute。
v.动词
devote, dedicate这两个词的共同意思是“贡献,奉献”。其区别在于:devote强调从个人的热情或愿望出发去干某事, dedicate包含有devote的意思,但重点是指从事一种庄严的、正式的、神圣的事业或工作。例如:
He devoted the whole night to light music.他整个晚上都在听轻音乐。
He dedicated his life to training students.他毕生都在培养学生。dedicate，devote这两个动词均有“奉献”之意。
dedicate正式用词，指献身于某一崇高事业或目的，也可指把著作题献给他人。
devote普通用词，指决心把全部身心、精力、时间等献给某一目标，某一个人或致力于某一事业。
16世纪80年代进入英语，直接源自古典拉丁语的devotusdevovere的过去分词，意为沉迷，沉溺。
用作动词 v.
～+名词devote a sum拨出专款devote all one's energy投入全部精力devote more time投入更多的时间devote much thought and ingenuity投入更多的思想和才能devote one's abilities奉献自己的才干devote one's attention专注devote one's efforts倾注全力devote one's knowledge奉献自己的知识devote one's life奉献出一生devote one's particular care特别注意devote one's thoughts专心思考devote twenty per cent of the gross national product献出国民生产总值的20％～+副词devote assiduously不懈地努力devote civilly客气地献出devote disinterestedly无私地奉献devote domestically无私地奉献devote dumbly愚蠢地奉献devote entirely完全地奉献devote exclusively全身心地投入devote faithfully忠诚地奉献devote oneself whole-heartedly全心全意地奉献devote profitably有益地奉献devote properly正确地投身devote solely完全地投入devote unreservedly毫无保留地奉献devote wholly全心全意地投入～+介词devote for专门用于…devote to把…献给devote to arduous task专心于艰苦的工作devote to children照顾孩子devote to gardening从事园艺devote to its inspection对其视察devote to master's interest为了其主人的利益devote to the duties of one's profession忠于某人的职责devote to the good of the people为了人民的利益devote to the study of economics致力于经济学的研究devote to the study of science致力于科学研究
用作动词v.
devote to v.+prep.
致力于… give (oneself freely and with care to sth)
devote sth to sb/sth/v-ingThe newspaper devoted a special column to a discussion of the problem of the world's population.这家报纸开辟专栏来讨论世界人口问题。
The newspaper devotes two pages to comics.报纸用两页版面来刊登漫画。
They agreed to devote part of the park to the playground.他们曾同意将公园的一部分辟为运动场。
They are all terribly busy men and cannot be expected to devote their time to this investigation.他们都是非常忙的人,不能指望他们用全部时间去进行这一调查。
He devotes his time to the garden.他把时间都用在花园里了。
Now she devoted most of the time to this work.现在她把大部分时间都用在这项工作上了。
She devoted her life to the cause of peace.她把一生献给了和平事业。
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。
Each nurse also devotes two evenings a week to studying medical literature in her field.每个护士每周还用两个晚上来学习与她工作有关的医学文献。
She devoted her life to helping homeless children.她的一生都在帮助无家可归的孩子们。
He devoted every Saturday afternoon to fishing.他把每个星期六下午的时间都花在钓鱼上。
He devoted all his spare time to helping his students with their English.他把所有的业余时间都用来帮助他的学生学英语。
She devoted too much time to dressing.她在穿着打扮上花的时间太多了。
I have to devote part of my income to repaying my debts.我不得不拿出一部分收入来用于还债。
We should devote every effort to finding out the principle contradiction.我们应该全力找出主要矛盾。
This magazine is devoted to science.这种杂志专载科学文章。
This department of the store is devoted to machine tools and engineering needs.商店的这个部是专门经营车床和工程用品的。
My lecture will be devoted to the study of aesthetics.我的演讲专门谈美学研究。
I should think the Welsh are the only people in the world whose only national festival is devoted to music and poetry.我认为威尔士人是世界上在自己民族唯一的节日上进行音乐和诗歌表演的唯一民族。
Utterly devoted to the people, he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民,把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
We are quite devoted to the little girl.我们非常喜欢这个小女孩。
Half of these plots are devoted to raising improved seeds.这些土地的一半被用来培育良种。devote oneself/sb to sb/sth/v-ingHe devotes himself to his sick wife.他专心照顾着他生病的妻子。
He devoted himself to his lessons.他专心致力于功课。
Jim is devoted to his wife and family.吉姆极为关心他的妻子和家庭。
All the soldiers were devoted to their leader.所有的士兵都忠于他们的统领。
A true artist is devoted to his work.真正的艺术家献身于他的艺术。近义词 applydedicateconsecrate反义词 ignorewithdrawwithholdrelinquish
用作动词v.
用作及物动词
S+～+ n./pron.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。
She devoted her young life.她献出了年轻的生命。其他v -ed as Attrib.Can such a man be called a devoted friend?这样的人能称作是忠实的朋友吗?
v.动词
devote的基本意思是因特殊用处或目的而心甘情愿地献出某物,即“把…奉献,把…专用于”,常表示由于如同起誓般紧迫的动机而放弃和献出。
devote是及物动词,常接时间、精力、生命等抽象名词作宾语,而“专用”和“奉献”的对象则由介词to引出。
表示“忠于”“致力于”“献身于”时可用devote oneself to结构,也可用be devoted to结构。
devote的过去分词devoted可用作形容词,在句中作定语或表语。
动词99%,名词1%
用作及物动词You mustdevoteyour attention to your work.你必须专心于工作。
After he graduated, he continued todevotehimself to the research.毕业以后,他继续潜心于这项研究。
Hedevotedhimself entirely to music.他将一生奉献给了音乐。
He started to study ecology and decided todevotehis whole life to the science.他开始研究生态学,并决心将他的一生献身于这门学科。
Hedevoteda great sum of money to books.他们花了一大笔钱买书。 By “working on it,” I mean truly devoting oneself to the end result.
我所说的“身体力行”，意思是真正地致力于最终的结果。 yeeyan
Do you intend devoting it to charitable purposes, then?
那么，您是预备把它专用在慈善事业上吗？ chinafanyi.com
He continued to work there for almost50 years, devoting his life to the monitoring effort.
此后，科林在那里连续工作了50年，将毕生的精力贡献给了观测事业。 ecocn
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。 chinafanyi.com
Italy-China Foundation is an organization devoting to enhancing the exchanges between the two countries and the people.
意中基金会一直致力于推进两国间的自由交流，通过各种活动，增进了两国间人员和文化的交流。 hjenglish
So we are devoting the time and energy to try to work through any issues that may exist on either side.
所以我们花费大量时间和精力努力解决任何一方可能存在的问题。 ebigear
You can“give something back” to the world by devoting unused computer cycles to a cause you support.
作为回馈社会，你可以将未使用过的电脑休息周期用于一个你支持的领域。 yeeyan
Devoting yourself to a partner includes taking on new friends, new relatives, and a new living arrangement.
你要全身心地爱着你的伴侣，要接纳新朋友，新亲戚并重新安排你的生活。 yeeyan