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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mary Grant was then only fourteen, but she resolved to face her situation bravely, and to devote herself entirely to her little brother, who was still a mere child.
-- I will do my utmost to find Captain Grant; I am pledged to it, and will devote my whole life to the task if needs be.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To this one purpose I must now devote all my energies.
-- 'He told me that it would hurt his self-respect that any other man should find the money for such an object, and that though he was a poor man himself he would devote his last penny to removing the obstacles which divided us.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And being but two-and-twenty and full of enthusiasm, I said, 'I will devote my life to this.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My days I devote to reading and to experi-ments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy.
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：
-- They felt it might be a being partial-ly benighted in the vale of ignorance, but it could not be one who would willingly devote his rich natural gifts to the purposes of wanton treachery.
-- It seemed as if they had profited by the short truce, to devote an instant to the purest and best af-fection; the daughters forgetting their fears, and the veteran his cares, in the security of the moment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are going to devote yourself, as I gather from what Mr. Bounderby has said, to the service of your country.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a frugal breakfast, the Professor made up his mind to devote some hours to putting his notes and calculations in order.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daily business hours were agreed upon, which his mother, Mr Flintwinch, and he, were to devote together to a necessary checking of books and papers; and he left the home he had so lately found, with depressed heart.
-- First, there was the subject seldom absent from his mind, the question, what he was to do henceforth in life; to what occupation he should devote himself, and in what direction he had best seek it.
-- 'I have acted on your advice; and having disembarrassed myself of an occupation that was painful to me for many reasons, wish to devote myself and what means I have, to another pursuit.'
-- As who should say, I devote him to the celestial Powers as an immortal artist!
-- I believe I ought to look at you in various lights, tell you you are a capital subject, and consider when I shall be sufficiently disengaged to devote myself with the necessary enthusiasm to the fine picture I mean to make of you.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even when he went away, and her mother was called to devote her skill and energy to Soldiers' Aid Societies, Beth went faithfully on by her-self and did the best she could.
-- 'But on my honor, I never will do so again, and henceforth devote myself to the interest of this immortal club.'
-- If the amiable gentle-man who wrote that kindly note could have known what intense happiness he was giving a fellow creature, I think he would devote his leisure hours, if he has any, to that amuse-ment, for Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleas-ant to find that she had learned to do something, though it was only to write a sensation story.
-- Returning suddenly to her admonitory tone, she said, drop-ping her voice, 'If you must have a 'went', Teddy, go and devote yourself to one of the 'pretty, modest girls' whom you do respect, and not waste your time with the silly ones.'
-- Jo had got so far, she was learning to do her duty, and to feel unhappy if she did not, but to do it cheerfully, ah, that was another thing!She had often said she wanted to do something splendid, no matter how hard, and now she had her wish, for what could be more beautiful than to devote her life to Father and Mother, trying to make home as happy to them as they had to her?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it is much to be deplored that the place to which you devote so considerable a portion of the whole term of your natural life, should be so sadly destitute of anything approaching to a cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to breed a comfortable localness of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock, a hearse, a sentry box, a pulpit, a coach, or any other of those small and snug contrivances in which men temporarily isolate themselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, Oliver and Noah had descended into the kitchen at the usual dinner -hour, to banquet upon a small joint of mutton--a pound and a half of the worst end of the neck--when Charlotte being called out of the way, there ensued a brief interval of time, which Noah Claypole, being hungry and vicious, considered he could not possibly devote to a worthier purpose than aggravating and tantalising young Oliver Twist.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'MY DEAR NIECE, 'I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a LITTLE writing will not comprise what I have to tell you.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that her opposition was out of the way, he had all of his time to devote to the consideration of his own error.
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