Devote

(verb.) set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use; 'this land was devoted to mining'.

约翰校对

• Won't you say yes--I will devote my life to making you very happy. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• They teach at one time that men act from class interests: but they devote an enormous amount of energy to making men conscious of their class. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Bell studied this closely, discussed it with Wheatstone, and decided that he would devote himself to the problems of reproducing sounds mechanically. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• To this nobler purpose the man of understanding will devote the energies of his life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But as you are rich, Jane, you have now, no doubt, friends who will look after you, and not suffer you to devote yourself to a blind lameter like me? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• To devote my life to his happiness was to thank him poorly, and what had I wished for the other night but some new means of thanking him? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I devote you, said this person, stopping at the last door on his way, and turning in the direction of the sanctuary, to the Devil! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I had never before seen Mr. Bruff pay her such devoted attention, and look at her with such marked respect. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• And who are the devoted band, and where will he procure them? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I believe I could make an independent fortune in a few years if I devoted myself exclusively to portraits, so great is the desire for good portraits in the different country towns. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Whether his whole soul is devoted to the great or whether he yields them nothing beyond the services he sells is his personal secret. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It was easy to see that she was passionately devoted both to her husband and to her little son. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Hear me, Rebecca--Never did knight take lance in his hand with a heart more devoted to the lady of his love than Brian de Bois-Guilbert. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Subsequent chapters will be devoted to making explicit the implications of the democratic ideas in education. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The giant, steam, demanded and received the obeisance of every art before devoting his inexhaustible strength to their service. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Mrs. Sparsit asked in a light conversational manner, after mentally devoting the whelp to the Furies for being so uncommunicative. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• He was devoting himself to the stew. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• But, in spite of all her friends' urgency, and her own wish of seeing Ireland, Miss Fairfax prefers devoting the time to you and Mrs. Bates? 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• His theory and his wishes about devoting his future to teaching had made an impression on Mrs. Yeobright. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But the thinker, the man who devotes himself to scientific inquiry and philosophic speculation, works, so to speak, in reason, not simply by *. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The mind wanders from the nominal subject and devotes itself to what is intrinsically more desirable. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He devotes them to new uses, and in so far transforms them. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Or the occupation to which he devotes himself may be of an opposite kind, and he may have the other sort of lameness. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I know of one reformer who devotes a good deal of his time to intimate talks with powerful conservatives. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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