intent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (目光) 不能移的, 集中的, 专心的; 坚决的 n. 意图, 意向, 目的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No Sons and Loverswind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
-- The Spirit touched him on the arm, and pointed to his younger self, intent upon his reading.
-- 'But he was very light to carry,' she resumed, intent upon her work,' and his father loved him so, that it was no trou-ble: no trouble.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He walked up hill in the mire by the side of the mail, as the rest of the passengers did; not because they had the least relish for walking exercise, under the circumstances, but because the hill, and the harness, and the mud, and the mail, were all so heavy, that the horses had three times already come to a stop, besides once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath.
-- To go on ' 'But this is my father's story, sir; and I begin to think' the curiously roughened forehead was very intent upon him 'that when I was left an orphan through my mother's surviving my father only two years, it was you who brought me to England.
-- As the captive of many years sat looking fixedly, by turns, at Mr. Lorry and at Defarge, some long obliterated marks of an actively intent intelligence in the middle of the fore-head, gradually forced themselves through the black mist that had fallen on him.
-- Her forehead was painfully anxious and intent as she gave this evidence, and, in the pauses when she stopped for the Judge to write it down, watched its effect upon the counsel for and against.
-- His face had become frozen, as it were, in a very curi-ous look at Darnay: an intent look, deepening into a frown of dislike and distrust, not even unmixed with fear.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 17,015 and 18,038, from December 5, 1863, and June 7, 1864, acted in direct contravention of the intent of the law T...Act 18, and the note to Act 36.
-- said the prince, who had a long while been intent on the conversation, his little comical eyes twinkling.
-- Anna was disconcerted by the intent look of inquiry Dolly fixed upon her.
-- she suddenly recalled the word that had stung her most of all, not so much the word itself as the intent to wound her with which it was said.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He fixed a strained intent look on his sister, but did not hear or did not understand her words.
-- Ras-kolnikov's burning and intent eyes grew more penetrating every moment, piercing into his soul, into his conscious-ness.
-- She looked with sick but intent and penetrating eyes at Sonia, who stood pale and trembling, wiping the sweat from her brow with a handker-chief.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Whythen I'll as good as bet a guinea,' said Peggotty, intent upon myface, 'that she'll let us go.
-- So I saw her afterwards, in my sleep at school- a silentpresence near my bed- looking at me with the same intent face-holding up her baby in her arms.
-- And yet my thoughts were idle; not intent on the calamity thatweighed upon my heart, but idly loitering near it.
-- It appeared to me that he neverthought of being observed by any one; but was so intent upon her,and upon his own thoughts in connection with her, as to be quiteabsorbed.
-- He was so intent upon his ownreflections that he was quite unconscious of my approach.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harriet was too intent on the lines to hear.
-- After a few minutes of entire silence between them, John Knightley began with 'I never in my life saw a man more intent on being agree-able than Mr. Elton.
-- 290 EmmaChapter XThe appearance of the little sitting-room as they entered, was tranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usu-al employment, slumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near her, most deedily occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax, standing with her back to them, intent on her pianoforte.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A close criticism might have detected signs proving that she was intent on the latter alternative.
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