Think of someone who has handed a part of their life over to one thing. They show up when nobody is watching, they keep the same hours, they give time they could have spent elsewhere. What the word names is not the feeling but the handing over. Whether the thing is a god or a shelf of old records, the shape of the person is the same.
可以想成一個人把自己生活的一部分交了出去。沒有人看著的時候他也照樣出現，時間固定，願意把本來可以拿去做別的事的時間給它。這個字指的不是那份喜歡，而是那個「交出去」的動作。不管交出去的對象是神明，還是一整櫃老唱片，這個人的樣子是一樣的。
From the word’s history
From devote plus the suffix -ee, which names the person in that state: the one who has been given over.
這個字由 devote（投入、奉獻）加上字尾 -ee 組成，-ee 指「處在那個狀態的人」，像 employee、trainee。所以字面就是「被交付出去的那個人」，兩個用法都扣著這個畫面。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1148104561): From devote + -ee.
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