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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Trojans would now have been worsted by the brave Achaeans and driven back to Ilius through their own cow-ardice, while the Argives, so great was their courage and endurance, would have achieved a triumph even against the will of Jove, if Apollo had not roused Aeneas, in the likeness of Periphas son of Epytus, an attendant who had grown old in the service of Aeneas' aged father, and was at all times devoted to him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It occurred in the small hours of Whit Monday, the day devoted in Iping to the Club festivities.
-- I contrived to enter, and walking down the shop it was a department where they were selling ribbons and gloves and stockings and that kind of thing came to a more spacious region devoted to picnic baskets and wicker furniture.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed, in truth, to be a spot devoted to seclusion, and the sisters imbibed a soothing impres-sion of security, as they gazed upon its romantic though not unappalling beauties.
-- It is true there were short and fleeting moments, when the fiery eyes of Magua were seen glittering, like the fabled organs of the basilisk through the dusty wreath by which he was enveloped, and he read by those short and deadly glances the fate of the combat in the presence of his enemies; ere, however, any hostile hand could descend on his devoted head, its place was filled by the scowling visage of Chingachgook.
-- Left now in a measure to themselves, the Mohicans, whose time had been so much devoted to the interests of others, seized the moment to devote some attention to themselves.
-- The apartment into which Duncan and his guide first entered, had been exclusively devoted to her accommodation.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They seemed devoted to one another.
-- She proved herself not only a capable, but a devoted nurse.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meanwhile Captain Harding was rejoined by a servant who was devoted to him in life and in death.
-- Every day, the reporter and Herbert, who had been voted purveyors to the colony, devoted some hours to the chase.
-- Chapter 8 The first week of January was devoted to the manufacture of the linen garments required by the colony.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Keeping his place of retirement very close, that he may not be visited too often by affectionate grandsons and their devoted friends, eh?'
-- These latter necessaries hung upon the walls, which, in that portion of the establishment devoted to the lady of the caravan, were ornamented with such gayer and lighter decorations as a triangle and a couple of well-thumbed tambourines.
-- And last of the goodly procession came Miss Monflathers, bearing herself a parasol of lilac silk, and supported by two smiling teachers, each mortally envious of the other, and devoted unto Miss Monflathers.
-- In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.
-- It is obvious that, having devoted herself from infancy to this one pursuit and study, Miss Brass could know but little of the world, otherwise than in connection with the law; and that from a lady gifted with such high tastes, proficiency in those gentler and softer arts in which women usually excel, was scarcely to be looked for.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You ought to get acquainted with Princess Passek," continued Maslenikoff, who had become talkative; "she has entirely devoted herself to this cause.
-- Since that time they had both became corrupted--he by the bad life he was leading; she by her marriage to a man whom she loved sensually, but who not only did not love all that which she and Dimitri at one time considered most holy and precious, but did not even understand it, and all those aspirations to moral perfection and to serving others, to which she had once devoted herself, he ascribed to selfishness and a desire to show off before people.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Time Traveller devoted his attention to his dinner, and displayed the appetite of a tramp.
-- This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder.
-- Apparently this section had been devoted to natural history, but everything had long since passed out of recognition.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, the Lloyd's List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance companies which threatened to raise their rates of premium, were unanimous on this point.
-- Conseil was my servant, a true, devoted Flemish boy, who had accompanied me in all my travels.
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