be devoted to

常见例句

Clean water means precious time once spent fetching water can now be devoted to spending time with families.
清洁的水意味着以前浪费在取水上的宝贵时间现在可以用来和家人相处。
Only when we realize the importance of helping each other can we be devoted to building a harmonious society.
只有当我们意识到互相帮助的重要性,我们才能致力于建设一个和谐社会.
That’s why, according to the Earth Institute, the final years of the project will be devoted to strengthening the villages' economies.
为解除这一担忧，地球研究所在项目最后几年致力于强化村落经济。

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.
下次关于这种引导性的讨论：,今天讨论的很多内容将会用于商业。
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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.
在这样的世界里,即使是主权国家,也可能受到来自他国的侵犯,或者是个人以及团体的恐怖破坏。
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The keyboard eats up space that could be devoted to a bigger screen, of course.
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Should taxpayers' money be devoted to keeping grandmother alive for an extra month in an intensive-care unit?
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You would think that a big proportion of their 3, 200 employees would be devoted to the area.
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