devotion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 献身， 热诚， 专心，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：
-- You have confidence in his devotion to us, and so have I.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have remained until now simply because of my devotion to you, and as for danger, I am only afraid that the carpets may be ruined, and the furniture smashed!芒聙娄 You should shut the door on the lot, in my opinion.
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：
-- Any other than a monster would have relented at such an act of generous devotion to the best and purest affection; but the breast of the Huron was a stranger to sympathy.
-- At instants of momentary wakefulness he mistook a bush for his associ-ate sentinel; his head next sank upon his shoulder, which, in its turn, sought the support of the ground; and, finally, his whole person became relaxed and pliant, and the young man sank into a deep sleep, dreaming that he was a knight of ancient chivalry, holding his midnight vigils before the tent of a recaptured princess, whose favor he did not despair of gaining, by such a proof of devotion and watchfulness.
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：
-- He could not do enough to show his gratitude for the whole-hearted devotion with which she had accepted the burden he laid on her.
-- He told her how passionately he loved her, and reminded her of all the devotion he had lavished upon her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The engineer Harding could not have been seconded by more intelligent companions, nor with more devotion and zeal.
-- Neb was devotion personified.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, in all the hurry and crowding of such a time, the child was more alone than she had ever been before; alone in spirit, alone in her devotion to him who was wasting away upon his burning bed; alone in her unfeigned sorrow, and her unpurchased sympathy.
-- Richard Swiveller, therefore, sticking a pen behind each ear, and carrying another in his mouth as a token of his great importance and devotion to business, hurried out to meet and treat with the single gentleman.
-- Indeed he so overflowed with liberality and condescension, that, in the fulness of his heart, he invited Mr Swiveller to partake of a bowl of punch with him at that remote and indefinite period which is currently denominated 'one of these days,' and paid him many handsome compliments on the uncommon aptitude for business which his conduct on the first day of his devotion to it had so plainly evinced.
-- From that time, the old man never, for a moment, forgot the weakness and devotion of the child; from the time of that slight incident, he who had seen her toiling by his side through so much difficulty and suffering, and had scarcely thought of her otherwise than as the partner of miseries which he felt severely in his own person, and deplored for his own sake at least as much as hers, awoke to a sense of what he owed her, and what those miseries had made her.
-- The third day of his devotion to this pursuit found him still hard at work, and little disposed to stir abroad.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two conclusions I must inevitably draw from it one bearing upon the unparalleled courage of Captain Nemo, the other upon his devotion to a human being, a representative of that race from which he fled beneath the sea.
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