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intensely

/in-tens-lee/US // ɪnˈtɛns li //

激烈地,强烈地,浓烈的,激烈的

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : to a high or extreme degree: Many ingredients are rolled into this intensely flavorful and very versatile curry paste.
    • : acutely, strongly, or vehemently: We should all be intensely angry about what is happening, and should do something besides just sitting at our computers absorbing information.I disliked the book intensely.
    • : earnestly or strenuously; in a highly engaged or involved way: The first time I watched the documentary, all I saw was these four people talking intensely about their music.

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  • They also prevent the build-up of small trees, shrubs and woody material, which otherwise cause the fires that do spark to become especially large and intense.

  • This has attracted intense interest in the last decades, as physicists started considering a variety of approaches toward the construction of a theory of quantum gravity.

  • Far outside our galaxy, 500 million light-years away, intense, random bursts of radio waves have been flashing for four days at a time.

  • Despite the intense focus on a vaccine, some worry it’s the wrong priority.

  • China, which reopened with temperature checks and intense monitoring, has seen a few bumps in the road but no massive problems.

  • The Babadook is the shape of grief: all-enveloping, shape-shifting, black, here intensely, terrifying, then gone.

  • Not surprisingly, this laid-back ball of nerves is also both intensely rational and explosively emotional.

  • Washington was a passionate advocate for an intensely practical education for ex-slaves and their descendants.

  • I was actually experiencing insomnia pretty intensely, and that experience informed that song.

  • There is one intensely sexual passage in which the protagonist cannot tell if he is sleeping or awake.

  • It was a fatal error, for though the Spanish people might despise their King, they were intensely proud of their nationality.

  • Later on he became intensely critical of his own work, and finally bought up all the copies he could lay hands on and burnt them!

  • The fighting section of the Filipinos was intensely irritated at not having been allowed to enter and sack the capital.

  • The day had been intensely cold, with a biting north-east wind and black frost.

  • Such conduct is not only excessively ill-bred, but intensely selfish.