| 词组 | intend |
| 释义 | intend Here are the chief constructions (besides the simple direct object) that are used with intend: It may be followed by an infinitive: • They never intended to strike Jacksontown —E. L. Doctorow, Loon Lake, 1979 It may be followed by a direct object and an infinitive phrase. • ... seems to have intended the happy ending to show the purification of our corrupt society —John Butt, English Literature in the Mid-Eighteenth Century, edited & completed by Geoffrey Carnall, 1979 It may be followed by a gerund: • ... I saw that the child had reached the fence and intended climbing it —Peter Taylor, The Old Forest and Other Stories, 1985 It may be followed by a clause, with or without that. The verb in the clause will be a subjunctive or the equivalent of a subjunctive. This construction seems less common than the foregoing: • ... in everything Richelieu undertook things happened as Richelieu had intended they should happen —Hilaire Belloc, Richelieu, 1930 Intend may take a prepositional phrase introduced by for: • At first intended for the church, he was educated at ... —Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1967 In speech and speechlike writing, it is sometimes followed by on and a gerund: • ... I intend on protecting myself and my loved ones —letter to the editor, Saturday Evening Post, October 1981 Longman 1984 warns against intend followed by for, a noun or pronoun object, and an infinitive with to, as in "I didn't intend for her to hear." We have no examples of this construction in edited prose, and assume that it is a verbal use like intend on. See also design, intend. |
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