devote是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 把…奉献给，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they didn't devote the whole evening to music.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I devote you,' said this person, stopping at the last door 152 A tale of two citieson his way, and turning in the direction of the sanctuary, 'to the Devil!'
-- 'Monseigneur, I am flattered to devote myself to your or-ders.'
-- Next to her preservation of his own last grateful love and blessing, and her overcoming of her sorrow, to devote herself to their dear child, he adjured her, as they would meet in Heaven, to comfort her father.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In adopting this course, I am not casting off a guilty wife, but giving her a chance of amendment; and, indeed, difficult as the task will be to me, I shall devote part of my energies to her reformation and salvation."
-- "The one thing I longed for, the one thing I prayed for, was to cut short this position, so as to devote my life to your happiness."
-- "I devote myself to it, and I have means, but I can do nothing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have yet twelve hours to spare; I can devote them to that."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your whole life, your whole future, you will devote to them when you have finished your studies and obtained a post?
-- Kill her, take her money and with the help of it devote oneself to the service of humanity and the good of all.
-- Now he had the right to devote his life to them, to serve them芒聙娄.
-- We were left alone, she suddenly flung herself on my neck (for the first time of her own accord), put her little arms round me, kissed me, and vowed that she would be an obedient, faithful, and good wife, would make me happy, would devote all her life, every minute of her life, would sacrifice everything, every-thing, and that all she asks in return is my respect and that she wants 'nothing, nothing more from me, no presents.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have laid a foundation that any edifice may be raisedupon; and is it not a pity that you should devote the spring-time ofyour life to such a poor pursuit as I can offer?'
-- She lifted up her eyes, andsolemnly declared that she would devote herself to this task,fervently and faithfully.
-- 'Placed in a mental position of peculiar painfulness, beyond theassuaging reach even of Mrs. Micawber's influence, thoughexercised in the tripartite character of woman, wife, and mother, itis my intention to fly from myself for a short period, and devote arespite of eight-and-forty hours to revisiting some metropolitanscenes of past enjoyment.
-- Ihave always aspired, if I could have released him from the toils inwhich he was held, to render back some little portion of the loveand care I owe him, and to devote my life to him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The day came, the party were punctually assembled, and Mr. John Knightley seemed early to devote himself to the business of being agreeable.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why should he devote so small a proportion of his money to his expenses?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There only remained a resolution to return to my ancient studies and to devote myself to a science for which I believed myself to possess a natural talent.
-- Accordingly I hid myself in some thick underwood, de-termining to devote the ensuing hours to reflection on my situation.
-- You refuse my just demand; I have but one resource, and I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his de-struction.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I was taking my departure, he asked me if I would like to devote five minutes to seeing Mr. Jaggers "at it?"
-- At that time, it was the custom (as I learnt from my terrible experience of that Sessions) to devote a concluding day to the passing of Sentences, and to make a finishing effect with the Sentence of Death.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I bowed down to the board of the table, and humbly answered 'that I was my master's slave: but, if I were at my own disposal, I should be proud to devote my life to her majesty's service.'
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