intend的用法

一.用作动词

1.意欲，打算，计划，想要

Do you intend to go to the town by the northern route?

你打算由北边的路去城里吗？

2.打算使，想让…做

I intend that he shall be a physician.

我打算使他成为医生。

I intend it as a stop-gap.

我想拿它凑数。

3.意指，怀有某种意图或目的

What do you intend by this remark?

你这话是什么意思？

二.intend多用作及物动词。其后可接名词、动名词、动词不定式或由that引导的从句作宾语,也可接由“to be/as+ n. ”或动词不定式充当补足语的复合宾语。有时还可以接双宾语,其间接宾语可转化为介词for的宾语。可用于被动结构。intend后接的that从句中,谓语动词须用虚拟语气。

三.intend for (v.+prep.)希望…加入…

Having always been musical from an early age, the singer seems to have been intended for the concert stage.

这位歌手自幼爱好音乐,看来他一直曾被期望着成为一名歌唱家。

His son is intended for the medical profession.

他想让他的儿子将来从医。