Intent
[ɪn'tent] or [ɪn'tɛnt]
解释:
(a.) Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.
(a.) Having the mind closely directed to or bent on an object; sedulous; eager in pursuit of an object; -- formerly with to, but now with on; as, intent on business or pleasure.
(n.) The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim.
整理:米歇尔
同义词及近义词：
a. Eager, earnest, close, closely fixed, resolutely bent.
n. Design, purpose, intention, aim, end, meaning, drift, purport, object, scope, mark, purview.
艾利森手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Eager, fixed, Urgent
ANT:Indifferent, diverted, distracted
录入:萨姆纳
解释:
adj. having the mind bent on: fixed with close attention: diligently applied.—n. the thing aimed at or intended: a design: meaning.—n. Inten′tion a fixing of the mind on any object: fixed direction of mind: the object aimed at: design: purpose.—adjs. Inten′tional Inten′tioned with intention: intended: designed.—advs. Inten′tionally with intention; Intent′ly in an intent manner.—adj. Inten′tive (Bacon) attentive.—n. Intent′ness.—To all intents and purposes in every respect.—Well- (or Ill-) intentioned having good (or ill) designs.
整理:莱缪尔
例句:
- The cuttle-fish had a face that stared straight from the heart of the light, very fixed and coldly intent. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- And now her face became more intent. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- So when their report puts at its head that absolute annihilation of prostitution is the ultimate ideal, we may well translate it into the real intent of the Commission. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- His eyes are large, and grave, and gray; their expression is intent and meditative, rather searching than soft, rather thoughtful than genial. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He is intent upon various new expenses,--horses, and carriages, and lavish appearances of all kinds. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- One beautiful evening, when the first shades of twilight were beginning to settle upon the earth, Oliver sat at this window, intent upon his books. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Bradley leaned his elbows on his knees, and his head upon his hands, and looked at the fire with a most intent abstraction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- His eyes stood still, and settled into that former intent unmeaning stare. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- You are a little depressed, too, said madame, whose quick eyes had never been so intent on the accounts, but they had had a ray or two for him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- If she lasts a couple of hours, I shall be surprised,' said the apothecary's apprentice, intent upon the toothpick's point. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Veneering pervades the legislative lobbies, intent upon entrapping his fellow-legislators to dinner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- When I did at last turn my eyes in Wemmick's direction, I found that he had unposted his pen, and was intent upon the table before him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- So intent upon your book? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I was convinced, from his intent face and his purposeful manner, that at last he was upon a clue. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- After some cogitation, accompanied with an intent look at his patron, Mr. Cruncher conceived the luminous idea of replying, Agicultooral character. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Pure she was of soul, and all her intents were holy. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- You have settled it already, to all intents and purposes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- We were born in the same year; consequently he is still a boy, while I am a woman--ten years his senior to all intents and purposes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
手打:玛丽安