核心畫面
You can picture devoted as having given yourself — or a thing — over entirely to one person or one purpose, holding nothing back and keeping nothing aside for anything else.
可以想成：把整個自己（或一樣東西）完完整整地交給某一個人、某一件事，不留一手、也不分心給別的。devoted 的核心…更多收起
可以想成：把整個自己（或一樣東西）完完整整地交給某一個人、某一件事，不留一手、也不分心給別的。devoted 的核心畫面比較像『全部押在這一個上面』那種專一與投入。原始詞典資料5 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。
devotedadj/dɪˈvəʊtəd/
- 1
Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.
- He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
- 2
Strongly emotionally attached; very fond of someone or something.
- Bob and Sara are devoted to their children.
- 3
Zealous; characterized by devotion.
- 4
obsoleteCursed; doomed.
- The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction […]
- The feelings of the crew now burst forth in the most extravagant transports. They had recently considered themselves devoted men, hurrying forwards to destruction; they now looked upon themselves as favorites of fortune, and gave themselves up to the most unbounded joy.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。