| 词组 | intent |
| 释义 | intent I See intention 1. II When the adjective intent is used with a preposition, it is usually on: • ... he would walk right past purple cows, so intent was he on his quest —James Thurber, Fables for Our Time, and Famous Poems Illustrated, 1940 • ... the author is so intent on being clever that he usually forgets to be anything more —Babette Deutsch, Yale Rev., December 1953 Less frequently, intent is used with upon: • ... comes Fred MacMurray, so intent upon making his way in the corporation —Lee Rogow, Saturday Rev., 23 Oct. 1954 Intent has also been used, but not very often, with in or to plus the infinitive: • ... several lanes of traffic ... intent in tracing the most direct route between two given points —Emily Hahn et al., Meet the British, 1953 • The Federalists were intent to create a strong government —Claude G. Bowers, Atlantic, January 1953 |
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