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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He and Teddy approached the door together, with intent faces.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was so intent upon these peculiarities that I scarcely noticed the path we followed.
-- Then I would turn aside into some chapel, and even there, such was my disturbance, it seemed that the preacher gibbered 'Big Thinks,' even as the Ape-man had done; or into some library, and there the intent faces over the books seemed but patient creatures waiting for prey.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cora was in the act of speaking, with an intent to advise the woman to abandon the trifle, when the savage relinquished his hold of the shawl, and tore the screaming infant from her arms.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apparently there had been some appalling act of justice recently inflicted, for his scholars were all busily intent upon their books, or slyly whispering behind them with one eye kept upon the master; and a kind of buzzing stillness reigned throughout the schoolroom.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not help laughing at this remark, made in all seriousness; but he went on, walking up and down the room like a caged beast, intent on expressing what he felt, but found such difficulty in putting coherently.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 8Business disposed of, Mr Swiveller was inwardly reminded of its being nigh dinner-time, and to the intent that his health might not be endangered by longer abstinence, dispatched a message to the nearest eating-house requiring an immediate supply of boiled beef and greens for two.
-- He wandered up and down the house and into and out of the various rooms, as if with some vague intent of bidding them adieu, but he referred neither by direct allusions nor in any other manner to the interview of the morning or the necessity of finding some other shelter.
-- Their owners had evidently come to that spot to make some needful repairs in the stage arrangements, for one of them was engaged in binding together a small gallows with thread, while the other was intent upon fixing a new black wig, with the aid of a small hammer and some tacks, upon the head of the radical neighbour, who had been beaten bald.
-- On the contrary, the other three knaves and gamesters by their trade while intent upon their game, were yet as cool and quiet as if every virtue had been centered in their breasts.
-- CHAPTER 44The throng of people hurried by, in two opposite streams, with no symptom of cessation or exhaustion; intent upon their own affairs; and undisturbed in their business speculations, by the roar of carts and waggons laden with clashing wares, the slipping of horses' feet upon the wet and greasy pavement, the rattling of the rain on windows and umbrella-tops, the jostling of the more impatient passengers, and all the noise and tumult of a crowded street in the high tide of its occupation: while the two poor strangers, stunned and bewildered by the hurry they beheld but had no part in, looked mournfully on; feeling, amidst the crowd, a solitude which has no parallel but in the thirst of the shipwrecked mariner, who, tost to and fro upon the billows of a mighty ocean, his red eyes blinded by looking on the water which hems him in on every side, has not one drop to cool his burning tongue.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The indictment wound up as follows: "In view of the aforesaid the defendants, Simon Kartinkin, peasant of the village of Borkoff, thirty- three years of age; burgess Euphemia Ivanova Bochkova, forty-two years of age, and burgess Katherine Maslova, twenty-seven years of age, conspired on the 17th day of January, 188-, to administer poison to merchant Smelkoff with intent to kill and rob him, and did on said day administer to said Smelkoff poison, from which poison the said Smelkoff died, and did thereafter rob him of a diamond ring and twenty-five hundred rubles, contrary to the laws in such cases made and provided.
-- "We find her guilty, but without the intent to rob, and without stealing any property--is that correct?"
-- "Without the intent to rob, and without stealing any property--hence she is not guilty."
-- They were so tired and the arguments had so confused them that it did not occur to any one to add "but without the intent to cause the death of the merchant."
-- The verdict was reached not because the majority of the jury agreed to it, but first because the justiciary had so drawn out his speech that he failed to properly instruct the jury; second, because the colonel's story about his brother-in-law's wife was tedious; third, because Nekhludoff was so excited that he did not notice the omission of the clause limiting the intent in the answer, and thought that the words "without intent to rob" negatively answered the question; fourth, because Peter Gerasimovich was not in the room when the foreman read the questions and answers, and chiefly because the jury were tired out and were anxious to get away, and therefore agreed to the verdict which it was easiest to reach.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I went slowly along, puzzling about the machines, and had been too intent upon them to notice the gradual diminution of the light, until Weena's increasing apprehensions drew my attention.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ursula watched his intent progress.
-- Birkin looked at her, and became intent in his explanation.
-- And if you'd seen the intent look on the faces of these boys, and the way they darted in the filth when a coin was flung really, no vulture or jackal could dream of approaching them, for foulness.
-- Gerald Crich, his face narrowing to an intent gleam, followed up the hill with quick strides, straight after Gudrun.
-- His eyes were lit up with intent lights, absorbed and gleaming.
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