self-devotion
自爱,奉献精神,奉献,自律
Definitions
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- : intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
- : devotion of oneself to the care or service of another or others; self-sacrifice: Her self-devotion to her sick mother prevented her from finishing college.
Examples
We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
Certainly, she seems to command near-total devotion among her clients.
Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.
I went into the audition as Fericito, the Venezuelan percussionist, and then I did a self-defense expert.
Bessires was included because he would never win it at any later date, but his doglike devotion made him a priceless subordinate.
This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.
Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.