核心畫面
Picture handing something over completely and taking it back from everything else: your evenings now go to this one project, and nothing else gets them. The word is about setting aside a whole share — of time, effort, space — for a single purpose, and meaning it.
可以想成：把一份東西整個交出去，同時也就從其他地方收回來——你的每個晚上從此都給了這一件事，別的事就分不到了。這個字…更多收起
可以想成：把一份東西整個交出去，同時也就從其他地方收回來——你的每個晚上從此都給了這一件事，別的事就分不到了。這個字講的是「整份撥出去、只給一個用途」：可以撥的是時間、心力，也可以是空間或篇幅。它自帶一種認真的味道，因為你做的不是分一點，而是整個投進去。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
devoteverb/dɪˈvəʊt/
- 1
to give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter; to consecrate.
- They devoted their lives to following Jesus Christ.
- I devoted this afternoon to repainting my study, and nothing will get in my way.
- 2
to consign over; to doom
- to devote one to destruction
- The city was devoted to the flames.
- 3
to execrate; to curse
devoteadj/dɪˈvəʊt/
- 1
obsoletedevoted; addicted; devout
- A world devote to universal wrack
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。