Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the twenty-sixth day of November next to be devoted by the people of these states to the service of that great and glorious being, who is the beneficent author of all the good that was,that is, or that will be .

VOA: special.2009.11.23

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Two astronauts aboard Endeavour are set to conduct three space walks that will largely be devoted to installing Tranquility.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

So, a part of you wants to become the greatest whatever it is that you want to become and you wouldn't be here if you weren't very competitive and very eager to come out first, devoted to arete and your own version of that kind of thing.

所以 你的一部分意识想变成最伟大的人,不论你想要在哪个领域变得伟大,而且如果你没有竞争力,或不是一直争取第一,那你也不会坐在这里,力图更上一层楼,以穷千里目

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How can a citizen, how can this new kind of citizenship ? that he is proposing, how can any kind of citizenship be devoted ? just to private matters and not public?

公民如何，他所提的这种,新公民社会如何，任何一种公民社会,如何仅专注在私人事件而非公共事务上？

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