devoted是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 献身于的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well!This man pursued Miss Havisham closely, and professed to be devoted to her.
-- The interval between that time and supper Wemmick devoted to showing me his collection of curiosities.
-- After that, he fell to gardening, and I saw him from my gothic window pretending to employ the Aged, and nodding at him in a most devoted manner.
-- Chapter XXXVIIDeeming Sunday the best day for taking Mr. Wemmick's Walworth sentiments, I devoted the next ensuing Sunday afternoon to a pilgrimage to the Castle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the five minutes or so that Mr. Chillip devoted to thedelivery of this oration, my aunt eyed him narrowly.
-- She would have lived with hergodmother, and we should have been devoted to one another.
-- It was no matter of wonder to me to find Mrs. Steerforth devoted toher son.
-- 'My son informs me, Mr.Copperfield, that you were quite devoted to him, and that whenyou met yesterday you made yourself known to him with tears ofjoy.
-- We bade adieu to Mrs. Steerforth and Miss Dartle, with manythanks on my part, and much kindness on the devoted mother's.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She recalled her past kindness the kindness, the affec-tion of sixteen years how she had taught and how she had played with her from five years old how she had devoted all her powers to attach and amuse her in health and how nursed her through the various illnesses of childhood.
-- Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible.
-- Mrs. John Knightley was a pretty, elegant little woman, of gentle, quiet manners, and a disposition remarkably ami-able and affectionate; wrapt up in her family; a devoted wife, a doating mother, and so tenderly attached to her father and sister that, but for these higher ties, a warmer love might have seemed impossible.
-- With the fortitude of a devoted no-vitiate, she had resolved at one-and-twenty to complete the sacrifice, and retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever.
-- Nobody can be more devoted to home than I am.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest Frankensteinpractical advantage.
-- There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
-- She devoted herself to those whom she had been taught to call her uncle and cousins.
-- Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had appar-ently devoted the body to corruption.
-- He easily eluded me and said 'Be calm!I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was shiningblack, pure African, devoted to her last drop of blood to the O'Haras, Ellen's mainstay, the despair of her threedaughters, the terror of the other house servants.
-- The heartbreak and selflessness that she would have dedicated to the Church were devoted instead to theservice of her child, her household and the man who had taken her out of Savannah and its memories and had neverasked any questions.
-- He had been devoted to the childlike Pitty and closer than brothers usually are to Melanie, and two moresweet, unworldly women could not be found.
-- The editor, sensing the social drama ofthe letter, put it on the second page of the paper, in itself a startling innovation, as the first two pages of the paper werealways devoted to advertisements of slaves, mules, plows, coffins, houses for sale or rent, cures for private diseases,abortifacients and restoratives for lost manhood.
-- He devoted himself toFanny with such sympathetic deference she even smiled at him, and the meal went well.
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