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：
-- And I observed, with great surprise, that he devoted it to staring in my direction as if he were lost in amazement.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I answered in a faint voice, 'that death would have been too great a happiness; that although I could not blame the as-sembly's exhortation, or the urgency of his friends; yet, in my weak and corrupt judgment, I thought it might consist with reason to have been less rigorous; that I could not swim a league, and probably the nearest land to theirs might be distant above a hundred: that many materials, necessary for making a small vessel to carry me off, were wholly wanting in this country; which, however, I would attempt, in obe-dience and gratitude to his honour, although I concluded the thing to be impossible, and therefore looked on myself as already devoted to destruction; that the certain prospect of an unnatural death was the least of my evils; for, sup-posing I should escape with life by some strange adventure, how could I think with temper of passing my days among Yahoos, and relapsing into my old corruptions, for want of examples to lead and keep me within the paths of virtue?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have systematically devoted myself (as you know) to the education of the reason of my family.
-- Being left to saunter in the hall a minute or two while Mr. Gradgrind went up-stairs for the address, he opened the door of the children's study and looked into that serene floor-clothed apartment, which, notwithstanding its book-cases and its cabinets and its variety of learned and philosophical appliances, had much of the genial aspect of a room devoted to hair-cutting.
-- After that, he wrote no more about them, and devoted his leisure chiefly to their house.
-- 'My dear Louisa, then consent to receive the submissive representation of your devoted friend, who knows something of several varieties of his excellent fellow-creatures for excellent they are, I am quite ready to believe, in spite of such little foibles as always helping themselves to what they can get hold of.
-- There never was a slave at once so devoted and ill-used by his mistress.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All our industry and ability were devoted to packing every object in the most advantageous manner--the instruments on one side, the arms on the other, the tools here and the provisions there.
-- My uncle, on the other hand, was quite as devoted to his arsenal as to his collection of instruments, and above all was very careful with his provision of fulminating or gun cotton, warranted to keep in any climate, and of which the expansive force was known to be greater than that of ordinary gunpowder.
-- The room devoted to strangers appeared to me to be by far the worst in the presbytery; it was narrow, dirty and offensive.
-- "You will obtain nothing from my devoted follower; therefore, listen to what I have to say."
-- Why should not a man as seriously convinced as my uncle, succeed, with so excellent a guide as worthy Hans, and so devoted a nephew as myself?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Giovanni was already devoted to his ladies, as he had been devoted to cargoes of ladies in the past.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her look at her father, half admiring him and proud of him, half ashamed for him, all devoted and loving, went to his inmost heart.
-- Arthur Clennam, who now felt that he had devoted himself to the storming of the Circumlocution Office, and must go through with it, accompanied the messenger to another floor of the building, where that functionary pointed out Mr Wobbler's room.
-- There were views, like and unlike, of a multitude of places; and there was one little picture-room devoted to a few of the regular sticky old Saints, with sinews like whipcord, hair like Neptune's, wrinkles like tattooing, and such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now called in the vulgar tongue a Catch-em-alive O.
-- The devoted Young John all this time regarded the family with reverence.
-- Enough, for the present place, that he lay down with wet eyelashes, serene, in a manner majestic, after bestowing his life of degradation as a sort of portion on the devoted child upon whom its miseries had fallen so heavily, and whose love alone had saved him to be even what he was.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The morning charities and ceremonies took so much time that the rest of the day was devoted to preparations for the evening festivities.
-- 'If one could have a fine house, full of nice girls, or go traveling, the summer would be delightful, but to stay at home with three selfish sisters and a grown-up boy was enough to try the patience of a Boaz,' complained Miss Malaprop, after several days devoted to pleasure, fret-ting, and ennui.
-- They saw it also, and smiled and waved their hands, and the last thing she beheld as she turned the corner was the four bright faces, and behind them like a bodyguard, old Mr. Laurence, faithful Hannah, and devoted Laurie.
-- Jo devoted herself to Beth day and night, not a hard task, for Beth was very patient, and bore her pain uncomplain-ingly as long as she could control herself.
-- John went with me at Mr. Laurence's request, and was so devoted to poor Father that we couldn't help getting fond of him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the time, I devoted three days to the studious digesting of all this beer, beef, and bread, during which many profound thoughts were incidentally suggested to me, capable of a transcendental and Platonic application; and, furthermore, I compiled supplementary tables of my own, touching the probable quantity of stock-fish, etc., consumed by every Low Dutch harpooneer in that ancient Greenland and Spitzbergen whale fishery.
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