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单词 intent
释义
intent
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈtent/us
/ɪnˈtent/
giving allyourattentionto something:
专心致志的，专注的
an intentstare目不转睛的注视
She had an intentlookon herface.她的面部表情非常专注。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Cautious and vigilant
  • abundance
  • an abundance of cautionidiom
  • askance
  • attentive
  • attentively
  • conservative
  • conservatively
  • diligence
  • diligent
  • discreet
  • meticulous
  • meticulously
  • meticulousness
  • mindful
  • minutely
  • sedulous
  • sedulously
  • slowly
  • super-cautious
  • super-conservative
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be intent onsomething/doingsomething
C2
to bedeterminedto do orachievesomething:
执意要做；决意要达成
I'vetriedpersuadingher not to go but she's intent on it.我试图劝她不要去，但她坚决要去。
Heseemsintent onupsettingeveryone in theroom!他看来存心要惹恼屋子里的每个人！
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Strong-willed
  • adamant
  • adamantine
  • adamantly
  • aggressive
  • aggressively
  • go-getting
  • going
  • gutsy
  • hard-boiled
  • hard-headed
  • purposeful
  • purposefully
  • pushy
  • recalcitrant
  • redoubtable
  • unbending
  • undaunted
  • unrelenting
  • unrelentingly
  • unyielding
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Related word

intently
intent
noun[U]
lawformalorspecialized
uk
/ɪnˈtent/us
/ɪnˈtent/
C2
thefactthat youwantandplanto do something:
意图，目的
Ispenthalfthemorningon thephone, which wasn't really my intent.我半个上午都花在了打电话上，这可不是我真正想做的。
[+ to infinitive]It was not his intenttohurtanyone.他的本意并不是想伤害谁。
She waschargedwithpossessingweaponswithintenttoendangerlife.她被指控以故意伤人为目的持有武器。
Synonyms
aim(INTENTION)
ambition
aspiration(HOPE)
dream(HOPE)
goal(AIM)
hope
intention
object(PURPOSE)
objective
target(AIM)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Planning, expecting and arranging
  • accidentally
  • accidentally on purposeidiom
  • advertent
  • advisedly
  • aim atsomething
  • bargain
  • I might have knownidiom
  • I'll/we'll cross that bridge when I/we come/get to itidiom
  • insomeone'scrosshairsidiom
  • in the pipelineidiom
  • in the worksidiom
  • planner
  • provision
  • purposely
  • put the cart before the horseidiom
  • puttheirheads togetheridiom
  • rearrange
  • reckon onsomething
  • settle
  • sleeve
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Idiom

to/for all intents and purposes
(Definition ofintentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

intent| American Dictionary

intent
adjective
us
/ɪnˈtent/

intentadjective(GIVING ATTENTION)

giving allyourattentionto something:
an intentlook

intentadjective(DETERMINED)

determined,esp. in a way thatseemssillyorharmful:
Theclimberswereintent onreachingthemountaintopdespitethefreezingtemperatures.
intent
noun[U]
fml
us
/ɪnˈtent/
something that youintendorintendedto do:
There wasclearlyno intent tocauseharm, and thejudgeruledthat theinjurywasaccidental.

Idiom

for all intents and purposes
(Definition ofintentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

intent| Business English

intent
noun[U]
uk
/ɪnˈtent/us
theintentionto do something:
intent to do sthHeannouncedhis intent toresign.
intent of (doing) sthThe intent ofbusinessresearchis toimprovethegeneralunderstandingof thedynamicsof thebusinessenvironment.
aletter/statement/declarationof intent
LAW
anintentionto do somethingillegal:
The two men did notactwithcriminalintent.
(Definition ofintentfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofintent

intent
Communicative intents expressed by parents in interaction with young children.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Communicative intents of parents interacting with their young children.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The social-pragmatic account of this effect rests on the presumption that children have certain expectations about people's referential intents.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Thirdly, relationships between the different communicative intents measures and the amount of talk were addressed.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Despite all intents and purposes, the new language policy has not, save on paper, corrected this legacy.
From theCambridge English Corpus
After retrieving relevant components, the designers select a general method to achieve their intents.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Many scenarios cut across lines of individual intents, expectations, and goals.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Differences were only found in parents' use of directing intents and joint discussions.
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To all intents and purposes they share a setting, but the ways in which they relate to their sites are radically different.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The energy-conserving trapezoidal rule, though, produces a tra jectory which to all intents and purposes is periodic.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Results indicated that parents of both groups engaged in similar proportions of common intents, such as negotiating immediate activities and negotiating mutual attention.
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However, the absence of an effective social security system meant that the government's response to these problems was for all intents and purposes non-existent.
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In addition, widely differing semantic intents may be mapped into the same output construction.
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In all the cases calculated, the pressure fluctuations are, for all intents and purposes, confined to regions inside the jet flow.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We then trained a bootstrapped model, using 13 call-types from the library and a few simple rules written manually for three frequent intents.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithintent

intent

These are words often used in combination withintent.

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aggressive intent
I believe that that aggressive intent is more indirect than direct.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
communicative intent
Within the scheme outlined above the new proposal can be classified as a directed search with strong communicative intent.
From theCambridge English Corpus
criminal intent
Many shopkeepers were prosecuted for contravening these requirements: this was probably explained as much by their incapacity to monitor their own businesses as anycriminalintent.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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