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Intend   [V I Ed Intended N Verb 动词

英语单词 intend
英美音标 英 [ɪn'tend] 美 [ɪn'tend]
中文释义 vt.想要;打算;意指
英语例句 (1) I haven't been to the exhibition, neither do I intend to go.
(2) I've chosen the main actors and we intend to put it on next January.
(3) How long do you intend to stop with the firm?
(4) The chair was intended for you, but she took it away.
(5) I intended to catch the early train, but I didn't get up in time.
(6) That remark was intended as a joke.
中文例句 (1) 我还没有看展览会,我也不想去。
(2) 我已经选好了主要演员,打算明年一月上演这出戏。
(3) 你打算还为公司工作多久?
(4) 那把椅子原本是为你准备的,但是被她拿走了。
(5) 我本来打算赶早班的火车,但是我起晚了。
(6) 那句话本来只是个玩笑。
vocabulary简明 If you intend to do something, you mean to do it or have it in mind as a goal. Do you plan on getting your holiday cards in the mail before February this year? Then you intend on getting them out early.
vocabulary扩展 The world is full of good intentions, meaning there are lots of people who intend to be nice, eat better, floss more, or pick up their dirty socks. But things don't always go as planned. Your actions could produce results that you didn't expect, specify, or ever intend — that might explain the well-known proverb, "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]想要;打算;计划 If you intend to do something, you have decided or planned to do it.
  [V to-inf]
  [V -ing]
  [V that]
  • She intends to do A levels and go to university...

    她计划先参加高级考试,然后去读大学。

  • I didn't intend coming to Germany to work...

    我没有打算来德国工作。

  • We had always intended that the new series would be live.

    我们一直打算现场直播这部新的电视系列节目。

2
[VERB 动词]准备,预留(作某种用途或给某人用) If something is intended for a particular purpose, it has been planned to fulfil that purpose. If something is intended for a particular person, it has been planned to be used by that person or to affect them in some way.
  [be V-ed for n]
  [be V-ed to-inf]
  [be V-ed as n]
  [usu passive]
  • This money is intended for the development of the tourist industry...

    这笔钱准备用于旅游业的开发。

  • Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status...

    圆柱在建筑中通常用来增添气势和显示地位。

  • Originally, Hatfield had been intended as a leisure complex.

    最初,哈特菲尔德是准备建成一个休闲娱乐中心的。

3
[VERB 动词]意指;意思是 If you intend a particular idea or feeling in something that you say or do, you want to express it or want it to be understood.
  [V n]
  [V n n]
  [V n to-inf]
  [V n prep]
  • He didn't intend any sarcasm...

    他没有任何讽刺的意思。

  • Burke's response seemed a little patronizing, though he undoubtedly hadn't intended it that way...

    伯克的回答有点施恩与人的感觉,尽管他无疑并没有那个意思。

  • This sounds like a barrage of accusation—I don't intend it to be...

    这听起来像是接二连三的指责——这并非我的本意。

  • I think he intended it as a put-down comment.

    我认为他的评论有奚落贬低之意。

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