dedicate是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to give all of your energy, time, etc. -- 奉獻，獻出（全部精力、時間等）

  • He has dedicated his life to scientific research. 他把自己的一生都奉獻給科學研究工作。

  • The new president said she would dedicate herself to protecting the rights of the sick and the homeless. 新任總統說她將致力於保護病人和無家可歸者的權利。

• 1 If you dedicate a book, play, performance, etc. to someone, you publicly say that it is in that person's honour. -- （把書籍、戲劇、演出等）獻給

  • The book is dedicated to the author's husband. 作者將此書獻給自己的丈夫。

• 2 When a building, especially a religious building, is dedicated, there is a ceremony at which it is formally opened for use and its particular purpose is stated. -- 為（尤指宗教建築）舉行奉獻典禮；為…舉行落成儀式

  • The church was dedicated on 1 March 1805 to the local Saint Jude. 教堂於1805年3月1日落成以紀念當地的聖裘德。