| 词组 | intention |
| 释义 | intention 1. Intention, intent. Intention and intent are used very nearly interchangeably in many cases: • Dos Passos' trilogy, U.S.A., is thoroughly political in intention —Philip Rahv, Image and Idea, 1949 • ... she didn't have any wish, intention, desire ... to become any kind of a female bum —James T. Far-rell, What Time Collects, 1964 • When a person offers us a piece of his mind, we suspect him of hostile intent —Samuel McChord Crothers, The Cheerful Giver, 1923 • The title is the simple evidence of Maugham's intent —Edmund Fuller, American Scholar, Winter 194647 However, there are a few instances in which intention and intent do not substitute easily for each other in an idiomatic way; a preference for one or the other is evident according to the context: • ... he had returned to lay claim to one of Texas's most curvesome blonds ... and, with no intentions toward marriage, to carry her away to Chicago — Gay Talese, Esquire, December 1979 • His day began with an heroic offering of its every moment of thought or action for the intentions of the sovereign pontiff —James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916 • ... have a general intention to pray for the intentions of the Pope or the Church —Aloysius McDonough, CP., The Sign, July 1959 • She is vitally concerned therefore with human motivation, what trial lawyers call intent —Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, March 1970 • ... the clear intent of the Taft-Hartley law's provision on secondary boycotts — Wall Street Jour., 26 Mar. 1954 2. When intention is used with a preposition, it is used most often with of, which is followed by a gerund or a noun: • "... may we very humbly entreat you to sign this gentleman's manifesto with some intention of putting your promise into practice?" —Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas, 1939 • The great novelists knew that manners indicate the largest intentions of men's souls —Lionel Trilling, in Forms of Modern Fiction, ed. William Van O'Connor, 1948 • The main intention of the poem has been to make dramatically visible the conflict —Allen Tate, On the Limits of Poetry, 1948 Almost as frequently, intention is used with to, which is followed by an infinitive: • ... a young child's statements are often objectively untrue, but without the slightest intention to deceive —Bertrand Russell, Education and the Good Life, 1926 • ... the government's intention to implement the Industrial Training Act —Current Biography, July 1967 Intention has also been used with against, behind, toward, or towards: • "He said the U.S. harbors no military intentions against Saudi Arabian oil fields" —NBC radio newscast, 19 Mar. 1975 • ... in her wise innocence she had divined the intention behind her mother's tolerance —James Joyce, Dubliners, 1914 • ... their keen perception of Soviet actions and intentions toward Yugoslavia —Alex Dragnich, Current History, July 1952 • Recently, Young informed the ICC of his intentions towards the Central—Time, 1 Feb. 1954 |
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