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

• 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 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。
• Devoting full strength and concentrated attention to.
  投入了所有的力气且集中注意力的。
• 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。
• Likewise, less time is spent pursuing activities that one enjoys and devoting on personal and spiritual growth.
  同样，花费在从事自己喜欢的活动以及用于个人自我发展和情操陶冶的时间也更少。
• 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。
• Someone on vacation; someone who is devoting time to pleasure or relaxation rather than to work.
  在度假中的人；把时间花在乐趣和娱乐上而不是花在工作上的人。
• Universities such as Duke in North Carolina and Rice in Houston are devoting more money to scholarships.
  加利福尼亚州北部的杜克（Duke）大学和休斯敦的莱斯（Rice）大学等均增加了奖学金的投入。
• It is about a robot falling in love with a human and devoting himself for their love.
  如果你去看电影，我推荐《机器侠》，写的是一个机器人爱上人类，为爱情奋不顾身的故事。