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devote

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vt. 致力于；奉献

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If you are a college student looking for work but worry you won’t have enough time to devote to academic subjects, consider working as a study hall or library monitor.

And there are environmental benefits, too: renting a car when you need it, rather than owning one, means fewer cars are required and fewer resources must be devoted to making them.

If you are a college student looking for work but worry you won't have enough time to devote to academic subjects, consider working as a study hall or library monitor.

The club grew quickly and when it reached 180 members and the kids in the program won several state championships she decided to devote all her time to cultivating and developing it.

For all the new attention devoted to the 1 percent, a new dataset from the Equality of Opportunity Project at Harvard and Berkeley suggests that, if we care about upward mobility overall, we're vastly exaggerating the dangers of the rich-poor gap.

Newly created state colleges and universities devoted themselves almost entirely to scientific, technological, and engineering fields.

Muir's learning in observation throughout his life led him to devote his last years to preserving the natural environment.

This refers to all the attention young people devote to their phones, tablets and laptops.

A year later, I reached my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I've been given a second life to devote to something that is meaningful and enormous.

Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

But we do think that you can live a more powerful life when you devote some of your time and energy to something much larger than yourself.

He is a good/devoted/caring/loving father because he was strict with his daughter and encouraged her when she was in trouble.

However, instead of devoting themselves to their work, they find themselves working to support the lifestyle to which they have so quickly become accustomed.

Neighbors devoted their spare time to helping others rebuild.

Some complain of unfriendly coworkers and feel sad for eight-hour workweeks devoted to tasks they hate.

The cloisters museum and gardens is a branch of the metropolitan museum of art devoted to the art and architecture of Europe in the middle ages.

The emotional, physical and mental energy mothers devote to their children can be never-ending, but children are also sources of great joy and happiness.

With long lives ahead of them, they need to stay active and devoted.

Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.