| 单词 | dedicate |
| 释义 | dedicate /dedɪkeɪt/ [transitive] (rather formal, usually approving) to give a lot of your time, effort or resources to a particular activity or purpose because you think it is important献身于；致力于◆she dedicates herself to her work.她献身于自己的工作。◆he dedicated his life to helping the poor.他毕生致力于帮助穷人。 ➡ see also dedicated → reliable 1 ▸ dedication noun [uncountable] ◆ (approving) i really admire gina for her dedication to her family.我真钦佩吉娜为家庭所作的奉献。◆the job requires total dedication.这项工作需要全身心的投入。note 辨析 devote or dedicate?there is little difference in meaning between these words. dedicate is usually used in an approving way; devote can be either approving or neutral (= neither approving nor disapproving), although the nouns devotion and dedication are both approving. devote can be used with a slightly larger range of nouns, including thoughts and attention.这两个词含义几乎没有差别。dedicate 通常用于褒义，devote 既可用于褒义，也可用于中性意义，尽管两者的派生名词 devotion 和 dedication 都含褒义。devote 搭配的名词范围略广，包括 thoughts 和 attention◆he dedicated all his attention to his mother. by far the most frequent collocates of dedicate are yourself and your life. * dedicate 最常见的搭配词是 oneself 和 sb's life。dedicate/ˈdedɪkeɪt ||; ˈdɛdəˌket/verb[t] 1. dedicate sth to sth to give all your energy, time, efforts, etc to sth 奉献（精力、时间、努力等）: ◇he dedicated his life to helping the poor. 他毕生致力于帮助穷人。 2. dedicate sth to sb to say that sth is specially for sb 题献辞: ◇he dedicated the book he had written to his brother. 他把自己写的那本书题献给了兄长。 ded·i·cate /`dɛdəˏket; ˈdedɪkeɪt/v [t] 1. to say that a book, film, song etc has been written or made for someone, to show that you respect or love them ［把文艺作品］献给，题献与…:◇the book is dedicated to his mother. 他将此书题献给了母亲。 2. dedicate yourself/your life to sth to spend all your time trying to do something 献身于/毕生致力于某事:◇she dedicated her life to helping the poor. 她毕生致力于帮助穷人。 |
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