Mr. White has committed himself to teaching over the past 20 years.

怀特先生过去20年来都献身于教育。

Inspired by these advances, Bohr committed himself to understanding the behavior of these tiny constituents of matter.

受到这些进步的启发，玻尔致力于了解这些物质微小成分的行为。

He never said yes, or no, and never committed himself to writing.

他从不说是或否，也从不致力于写作。

He had intended, probably, to take what he could and go—but now he found that he had committed himself to the following of a grail.

他起初很可能打算及时行乐，然后一走了之——但是现在他发现他已经把自己献身于追求一种理想。

She expressed this belief, and Morris received the assurance as if he thought it natural; but he interrogated, at first—as was natural too—rather than committed himself to marking out a course.

她表达了这种信念，莫里斯得到了保证，就好像他认为这是自然的一样；但他一开始只是审问——这也是很自然的——而不是致力于划定一条路线。

I saw in this the reason for my being staved off so long and the reason for my late guardian's declining to commit himself to the formal knowledge of such a scheme.

从这里我明白了为什么我被拒之门外这么久，以及为什么我已故的监护人拒绝承诺正式了解这样一个计划。

As a young man, he earned his keep working with art dealers in the Hague, then scrapped around thinking he, too, wanted to do religious work, before committing himself to becoming an artist.

年轻时，他一直在海牙与艺术品经销商合作，然后放弃了，认为自己也想做宗教工作， 然后致力于成为一名艺术家。

He had come dangerously near to Seward's radicalism in his " house-divided-against-itself" speech but he had never committed himself to the reckless doctrine that there was a " higher law" than the Constitution.

他在“众议院内部自相矛盾”的演讲中危险地接近了苏厄德的激进主义，但他从未承诺过“存在比宪法更高的法律”这一鲁莽的学说。