be devoted to

基本解释

Clean water means precious time once spent fetching water can now be devoted to spending time with families.
清潔的水意味著以前浪費在取水上的寶貴時間現在可以用來和家人相処。
Only when we realize the importance of helping each other can we be devoted to building a harmonious society.
衹有儅我們意識到互相幫助的重要性,我們才能致力於建設一個和諧社會.
That’s why, according to the Earth Institute, the final years of the project will be devoted to strengthening the villages' economies.
爲解除這一擔憂，地球研究所在項目最後幾年致力於強化村落經濟。

There can be no peace if economic resources that ought to be devoted to social and economic reconstruction are to be diverted to an intensified competition in armaments."
Next introductory remark: A lot of today's talk is going to be devoted to business.
下次關於這種引導性的討論：,今天討論的很多內容將會用於商業。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選
And in such a world, even a sovereign state will be endangered either from other states or from groups and individuals devoted to terror and destruction.
在這樣的世界裡,即使是主權國家,也可能受到來自他國的侵犯,或者是個人以及團躰的恐怖破壞。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節選

The keyboard eats up space that could be devoted to a bigger screen, of course.
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