Perhaps more importantly, the better you are at managing the time you devote to your studies, the more time you will have to spend on your outside interests.
译文：也许更重要的是，你越善于管理你的学习时间，你就会有更多的时间用在你课外的兴趣上。
词汇突破
devote vt.献身;专心于;
be devoted to= devote oneself to
献身于，致力于;
【例句】
Considerable resources have been devoted to proving him a liar
为了证明他是个骗子已投入了相当多的人力和财力。
He's devoted to music.
他致力于音乐。
They seemed devoted to each other and were openly affectionate
他们看起来非常恩爱，柔情蜜意溢于言表。(重要哦)
She remained devoted to his memory
她对他仍十分怀念。(重要哦)
She was devoted to him, but she no longer loved him madly.
她一心一意地爱他，但是这份爱不再疯狂。
Lang Lang devoted a lot of time to playing the piano even when he was a little child.
郎朗小时候就把很多时间都用来弹钢琴。
I have personally been devoted to this cause for many years .
多年来我个人一直一心扑在这项事业上。
A disproportionate amount of time was devoted to one topic .
纠缠在同一个话题上的时间太长了。
All the efforts are to be devoted to combating underworld gangsduring the Spring Festival holidays.
春节期间，要全力抓好打黑工作。
All his spare time has been devoted to learning English over the radio.
他所有的业余时间都花在通过收音机学习英语上了。
Page upon page is devoted to the chain of events leading to the Prime Minister's resignation.
一页又一页的篇幅都用来描述导致首相辞职的一连串事件。
You want a husband who is solid and stable, someone who will devote himself to you .
你要的是一个可靠而稳重的丈夫——一个全心全意对你的人。
After her marriage, the singer couldn’t devote herself totally to her music.
结婚之后这个歌手无法全力倾注于音乐。
She gladly gave up her part-time job to devote herself entirely to her art.
她欣然辞去了兼职工作，全身心地投入到她的艺术中去。
She devoted herself to her career.
她全力倾注于自己的事业。
He devoted himself to developing the space industry.
他投身于发展航天工业。
devote sth to sth
把…用于
Tom Banbury was preoccupied with the missing Shepherd child and did not want to devote time to the new murder .
汤姆·班伯里一心寻找谢泼德家失踪的孩子，不想花时间处理这起新的谋杀案。
I could only devote two hours a day to the work.
我一天只能在这个工作上花两个小时。
He decided to devote the rest of his life to scientific investigation.
他决定将自己的余生献给科学研究事业。
He devoted a major section of his massive report to an analysis of US aircraft design...
在他的长篇报告中，他用了很大的篇幅来分析美国飞机的设计。
Faculty members devote most of their time to scholarly research.
全院教师大部分时间都用来从事学术研究。
She had started to devote her energies to teaching rather than performing .
她已经开始将精力从表演转移到教学中。
I will devote all my life to the cause of education.
我愿把毕生献给教育事业。
She devoted her attention to her work.
她专心于工作。
I love my motherland so much that I devote all my life to her.
我非常热爱我的祖国，我愿意为她贡献我的一生。
Spend some money/ time on sth
=spend some money/time (in) doing sth
“花费(时间、金钱等)做某事”
【例句】
Businessmen spend enormous amounts advertising their products.
商人们花费巨额资金为自己的商品做广告。
Juventus have spent £ 23m on new players
尤文图斯队已经在新球员身上花了2,300万英镑。
I spend a lot on expensive jewelry and clothing .
我花很多钱购买昂贵的首饰和衣服。
She spends too much effort on things that don't matter.
她在一些无关紧要的事情上花费精力太多。
I've spent all my money already.
我已经把我的钱全都花完了。
She spent £100 on a new dress.
她花100英镑买了一条新连衣裙。
Most of her life was spent in caring for others.
她大半辈子的时间都用来照顾别人了。
I spend too much time watching television.
我看电视花的时间太多。
Every day, most of the students in this school spend three hours on their homework.
这所学校大多数学生每天花三个小时做家庭作业。
They spend an inordinate amount of time talking.
他们花在说上的时间太多了。
I spend a lot of my spare time watching videos.
我把大量业余时间花在看录像上。
I could spend each day gorging on chocolate .
我可以每天只吃巧克力就够了。
I spent three days cleaning our flat.
我花了 3 天时间打扫我们的公寓。
I spend all day running around after the family .
我一整天都跟着这家人跑来跑去。
It is bad for children to spend a lot of time playing computer games.
用很多时间玩电脑游戏对孩子是有害的。
spend some time with 花时间陪某人
All I want is to have some peace and quiet and spend a couple ofnice days with my grandchildren .
我就想清静一下，和孙子孙女们一起好好呆几天。
I have just met the man I want to spend the rest of my life with .
我刚刚遇到了我想与之共度余生的男人。
She has yet to spend a Christmas with her husband
她还从没和她的丈夫一起过过圣诞节。（这个太重要了）摘自《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
One of the worst hardships is having so little time to spend with one's family.
最大的痛苦之一是几乎没有时间和家人在一起。
At family gatherings you always took time to spend with me.
家庭聚会上，你总抽出时间来和我玩。
And I have the time to spend with my family and friends.
而且，我有时间和自己的家人、朋友们在一起。
语法点拨
“the+比较级，the+比较级”，表示“越……越……”。
句子详解
Perhaps more importantly, the better you are at managing the time you devote to your studies, the more time you will have to spend on your outside interests.
本句含有“the+比较级，the+比较级”的句式，同时含有两个非限制性定语从句，分别修饰先行词the time和the more time。
经典例句：
The more powerful the car the more difficult it is to handle.
汽车的功率越大，就越难驾驭。
The more they worked, the more energetical they became.
他们越干越起劲。
The more he said, the more excited he became.
他越说越来劲儿。
The more self-knowledge we have, the more control we can exertover our feelings and behaviour.
我们越有自知之明就越能控制自己的感情和行为。
The more gifts she received, the more she craved, until he was livingbeyond his means .
得到的礼物越多，她的胃口就越大，直到他捉襟见肘为止。
The more they probed into his background, the more inflamed their suspicions would become .
他们越调查他的背景，疑团就越多。
There is a downside to it: the more she remembers, the more bittershe feels about what has happened.
这有个不利之处：她记起的越多，对发生的一切就会觉得越痛苦。
The more you practise, the more skilful you'll become.
练习的次数越多，熟练的程度越高。
The more they talked, the more they disagreed.
两人越说越拧。
The more Sarah nagged her, the more stubborn Cissie became
萨拉越对茜茜唠叨，茜茜越是固执。
The more one tries to hide, the more is exposed.
欲盖弥彰。
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