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When something is intentional, a person did it on purpose. They knew what they were doing, and they chose it. The word often turns up when the act hurt someone — a cruel joke, a foul in sport, a crime. In court it is a heavy word: “intentional harm” means you meant the hurt, not that it just happened. Though actually, at the dinner table people use it more softly. If you knock a cup down, you say “Sorry — that wasn’t intentional.” You are not talking about crime. You only mean you did not plan it. Friends more often say “on purpose”; “intentional” sounds a bit more careful and formal.
蓄意的（偏傷害、法律）；日常多說故意的。道歉常說「不是故意的」，不一定帶惡意。
組成intention + -al. Borrowed from Medieval Latin intentiōnālis.
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- intentionthe noun this adjective is built from
- intentionallythe adverb: in an intentional way
- intendthe verb behind intention
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
intentionaladj/ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/
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Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.
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Reflecting intention; marking an expenditure of will in the shape of a matter.
- It should, however, be borne in mind that even in the cohortative proper, the -ah does not add to the simple imperfect the ‘intentional’ signification expressed by that mood: the signification is already there, and the new termination merely renders it more prominent.
- When Kafka’s novels are analyzed with the autistic frame of reference in mind the behavior of his protagonists make more sense and will reveal that Kafka’s protagonists focus on external behavioral cues which are guided by Kafka’s education and mindset of a lawyer. As such Kafka’s protagonists are a reflection of the thinking and behavior of Kafka the author. Critics and literary scholars misinterpret Kafka’s work by focusing on aspects such as the psychological and mental state of the characters, which are of limited actual concern for the externally intentional focus of the writer Kafka.
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lawDone with intent.
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obsoletehuman-sciencesphilosophysciencesObject to intention, only appearing due to wilful perception.
intentionalnoun/ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/
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archaichuman-sciencesphilosophysciencesSomething that has no essential underlying structure but apparition only as defined by perception; object only because consciousness is directed to it.
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsThe cohortative mood as found in Hebrew (terminology borrowed from Julius Friedrich Böttcher † 1863 and now outmoded), and constructions of similar purpose in even more exotic languages.
- Tariana distinguishes interrogative and imperative moods. Interrogative mood is marked through a separate set of evidentials fused with tense (see §14.2). Imperatives are discussed in §16.1. Modalities include: frustrative (§16.2), intentional (§16.3), apprehensive (§16.4), uncertainty (§16.5), conditional (§16.6), purposive (§16.7) and counter-expectation (§16.8). […] The intentional is marked with the clitic -kasu. It can occur with any group of verbs, marking imminent action, as in 16.60 and intention, as in 16.61.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。