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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When at last we reached the door and peeped through we found him crouching at the window, candle in hand, his white, intent face pressed against the pane, exactly as I had seen him two nights before.
-- The lamp beat upon his face, and so intent was it and so still that it might have been that of a clear-cut clas-sical statue, a personification of alertness and expectation.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet his smile, in spite of its sweetness, was a little thin, if I may so call it, and showed his teeth too evenly; his gaze though decidedly good-humoured and ingenuous, was a trifle too inquisitive and intent to be altogether agreeable.
-- Once more Gania fixed him with intent and questioning eyes.
-- The prince continued to regard Nastasia with a sorrow-ful, but intent and piercing, gaze.
-- She stood by the fire and waited, with her intent gaze fixed upon him.
-- His glittering eyes watched the prince with an intent stare.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Brave Menelaus pitied them in their fall, and made his way to the front, clad in gleaming bronze and brandish-ing his spear, for Mars egged him on to do so with intent that he should be killed by Aeneas; but Antilochus the son of Nestor saw him and sprang forward, fearing that the king might come to harm and thus bring all their labour to nothing; when, therefore Aeneas and Menelaus were set-ting their hands and spears against one another eager to do battle, Antilochus placed himself by the side of Menelaus.
-- Hec-tor thereon with a loud cry sprang from his chariot to the ground, and seizing a great stone made straight for Teucer with intent kill him.
-- Deiphobus son of Priam went about among them intent on deeds of daring with his round shield before him, under cover of which he strode quickly forward.
-- Thus did he fall with his bronze-dight armour ringing harshly round him, and Teucer sprang forward with intent to strip him of his armour; but as he was doing so, Hector took aim at him with a spear.
-- He was intent on trying to get near Hector, for he had set his heart on spearing him, but Hector's horses were now hurrying him away.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.
-- With one intent all the combined rival boats were pointed for this one fish, because not only was he the largest, and therefore the most valuable whale, but he was nearest to them, and the other whales were going with such great velocity, moreover, as almost to defy pursuit for the time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Intent upon this innocent amusement, Noah put his feet on the table-cloth; and pulled Oliver's hair; and twitched his ears; and expressed his opinion that he was a 'sneak'; and furthermore announced his intention of coming to see him hanged, whenever that desirable event should take place; and entered upon various topics of petty annoyance, like a malicious and ill-conditioned charity-boy as he was.
-- Carelessly at first; but, lighting on a passage which attracted his attention, he soon became intent upon the volume.
-- 'If she lasts a couple of hours, I shall be surprised,' said the apothecary's apprentice, intent upon the toothpick's point.
-- At a table behind him sat the Artful Dodger, Master Charles Bates, and Mr. Chitling: all intent upon a game of whist; the Artful taking dummy against Master Bates and Mr. Chitling.
-- One beautiful evening, when the first shades of twilight were beginning to settle upon the earth, Oliver sat at this window, intent upon his books.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I walked as far as I could upon the shore to have got to her; but found a neck or inlet of water between me and the boat which was about half a mile broad; so I came back for the present, be-ing more intent upon getting at the ship, where I hoped to find something for my present subsistence.
-- - Went to the wreck again, not with an intent to work, but found the weight of the wreck had broke itself down, the beams being cut; that several pieces of the ship seemed to lie loose, and the inside of the hold lay so open that I could see into it; but it was almost full of water and sand.
-- One would have thought I could not have had the least reflection upon my mind of my circumstances while I was making this boat, but I should have immediately thought how I should get it into the sea; but my thoughts were so intent upon my voyage over the sea in it, that I never once considered how I should get it off the land: and it was re-ally, in its own nature, more easy for me to guide it over forty-five miles of sea than about forty-five fathoms of land, where it lay, to set it afloat in the water.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The effect of his discourse on the lady too, could not escape her observation, for though she was too honorable to listen, and had even changed her seat, on purpose that she might NOT hear, to one close by the piano forte on which Marianne was playing, she could not keep herself from seeing that Elinor changed colour, attended with agitation, and was too intent on what he said to pursue her employment. Still farther in confirmation of her hopes, in the interval of Marianne's turning from one lesson to another, some words of the Colonel's inevitably reached her ear, in which he seemed to be apologising for the badness of his house.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were so intent upon getting somewhere.
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