intend基本信息
读法：英 [ɪn"tend] 美 [ɪn"tɛnd]
释义：
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英英释义
Verb:
"I only meant to help you"
"She didn"t think to harm me"
"We thought to return early that night"
"what do his words intend?"
"An example sentence would show what this word means"
中英词源
intend 打算，计划
in-,进入，使，-tend,延伸，词源同tend,extend.引申词义打算，计划。
- intend
- intend: [14] The Latin verb intendere (a compound formed from the prefix in- ‘towards’ and tendere ‘stretch’) had a variety of metaphorical meanings, some of which have come through into English. Principal among them was ‘form a plan or purpose’, an extension of an earlier ‘direct or ‘stretch’ one’s thoughts towards something’, which has given English intend and the derived intention [14].
The noun intent [13] belongs with this group too, but the adjective intent [17] looks back to the earlier ‘direct one’s mind towards a particular thing’, and intense [14] comes from the even more literal ‘stretched tight’. A medieval Latin addition to the meanings of intendere was ‘understand’, which English adopted in the 14th century. It had largely died out in English by the end of the 17th century, but it has persisted in the Romance languages, and has even developed further to ‘hear’ (which is what French entendre means).
=> intense, intention, tense - intend (v.)
- c. 1300, "direct one"s attention to," from Old French entendre, intendre "to direct one"s attention" (in Modern French principally "to hear"), from Latin intendere "turn one"s attention, strain," literally "stretch out, extend," from in- "toward" (see in- (2)) + tendere "to stretch" (see tenet). Sense of "have as a plan" (late 14c.) was present in Latin. A Germanic word for this was ettle, from Old Norse ætla "to think, conjecture, propose," from Proto-Germanic *ahta "consideration, attention" (cognates: Old English eaht, German acht). Intended (n.) "one"s intended husband or wife" is from 1767.
词态变化
第三人称单数 intends;
过去式 intended;
过去分词 intended;
现在分词 intending;
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权威造句
- 1. England intend fielding their strongest team in next month"s World Youth Championship.
- 英格兰意欲在下月的世界青年锦标赛中推出他们的最强阵容。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. It"s only fair to let her know that you intend to apply.
- 告诉她你打算申请，这才算公平嘛。
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- 3. They intend to claim for damages against the three doctors.
- 他们打算向那3位医生索要损害赔偿。
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- 4. I don"t intend to be a meal-ticket for anyone.
- 我无意供养任何人。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. We have the initiative; we intend to keep it.
- 我们拥有主动权；我们不打算放弃它。
来自柯林斯例句
近反义词
相似短语
单词分析
这两个动词均有“想要，打算”之意。intend较正式用词，但常用，指对未来的行动做出打算，并力争实现。
mean口语多用，指怀有作某事的想法或希望得到某物，特别用于效果不好而动机良好的场合。
记忆方法
1. in- + tend-
2. 含义：stretch into sth, stretch on sth. => direct one"s attention into sth, direct one"s attention on sth.
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