| 单词 | intently |
| 释义 | intently (once / 659 pages) adv If you're studying something intently, you're probably leaning forward and you're oblivious to whatever is going on around you. Your attention is focused like a laser. If you're gazing intently into someone's eyes, you're hanging on to every blink of the eye, every nuance of expression. Maybe you're in love. When you do something intently, you do it with intensity. It's not a coincidence that intently sounds a lot like intensity, as they both come from the Latin intendere, made up of in- ("toward") and tendere ("stretch"). So when you're listening intently to a Bartók string quartet, you're stretching and straining to hear every note. WORD FAMILYintent: intently, intentness, intents USAGE EXAMPLESThe race for president focused intently on the millions of people living in the United States illegally, and whether to let most of them stay. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) Aune, like a growing number of scientists and clinicians, is focusing intently on “late effects” of cancer treatments. Washington Post(Dec 25, 2016) When Ghebar asked the counsellor for advice, he was told to try to focus intently on the present. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) adv with strained or eager attention listened intently stood watching intently |
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