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intend

verb
 OPAL W
🔊/ɪnˈtend/
🔊/ɪnˈtend/
Word Family
  • intend verb
  • intended adjective (≠ unintended)
  • intention noun
  • intentional adjective (≠ unintentional)
  • intentionally adverb (≠ unintentionally)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they intend
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he / she / it intends
🔊/ɪnˈtendz/
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past simple intended
🔊/ɪnˈtendɪd/
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past participle intended
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-ing form intending
🔊/ɪnˈtendɪŋ/
🔊/ɪnˈtendɪŋ/
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  1.  
     [intransitive, transitive] to have a plan, result or purpose in your mind when you do something打算；计划；想要
    • We finished later than we had intended.我们完成时已超出原定时间。🔊🔊
    • intend to do something I fully intended (= definitely intended) to pay for the damage.我确实诚心想赔偿损失。🔊🔊
    • I never intended to hurt you.我从来都没想伤害你。
    • The train we had originally intended to catch had already left.我们原本打算乘的火车已经走了。
    • intend somebody/something to do something The writer clearly intends his readers to identify with the main character.作者显然想使读者能与主人公产生共鸣。🔊🔊
    • intend doing something (British English) I don't intend staying long.我不打算长期逗留。🔊🔊
    • intend something The company intends a slow-down in expansion.公司准备放慢扩展速度。🔊🔊
    • intend somebody something He intended her no harm (= it was not his plan to harm her).他无意伤害她。🔊🔊
    • it is intended that… It is intended that production will start next month.计划在下个月开始生产。🔊🔊
    • intend that… We intend that production will start next month.我们计划下个月开始生产。🔊🔊
    More Like This Verbs usually followed by infinitivesVerbs usually followed by infinitives
    Extra Examples
    • She fully intends to continue her sporting career once she has recovered from her injuries.她一心打算一旦伤愈就继续自己的运动生涯。
    • He intends to retire at the end of this year.他打算今年年底退休。
    • I don't intend to make the same mistake again.我可不想再犯同样的错误。
    • She didn't intend to kill him.她本来没打算杀死他。
    • They stayed much longer than they'd originally intended.他们逗留的时间比原定的长得多。
    • What do you intend to do now?你现在想做什么？
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • fully
    • clearly
    • originally
    • …
    preposition
    • for
    See full entry
  2.  
     [transitive] (rather formal) to plan that something should have a particular meaning意指 synonym mean
    • intend something by something What exactly did you intend by that remark?你那句话到底想说什么？🔊🔊
    • intend something as something He intended it as a joke.他只想开个玩笑。🔊🔊
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • fully
    • clearly
    • originally
    • …
    preposition
    • for
    See full entry
    3. Word OriginMiddle English entend (in the sense ‘direct the attention to’), from Old French entendre, from Latin intendere ‘intend, extend, direct’, from in- ‘towards’ + tendere ‘stretch, tend’.