Concentrate on doing sth;

Devote oneself to doing sth.

Fixed collocation:

1. Apply for a visa.

2. Apply for a patent.

Example:

It's hard to devote yourself to a boring task.

It's hard to concentrate on a boring thing.

Applied reading French and English [? The PLA? ] beauty [? People's Liberation Army? ]

Usage of extended data words:

After apply, you can also take a reflexive pronoun as an object, meaning "put (energy, etc." ) becomes ... ",followed by a phrase caused by the preposition to. Not used in passive structure, nor in progressive tense. Apply, when interpreted as "applicable", refers to the application of theories and principles and is only used as an intransitive verb.

Discrimination of word meaning:

Apply, use and exploit all have the meaning of "use, apply", the difference is:

1, application refers to the application of one thing to another to play its effective role.

2. Use common words, the key point is to use someone or something for a certain purpose.

3.exploit emphasizes full utilization.