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intensify(v.)

1817年(及物动词),源自 intense + -ify,最早见于柯勒律治的作品中,代替了 intend,因为后者不再与 intense 相关。不及物意义始于1845年。中古英语使用 intensen(动词)“增加(某物),加强,强化”,早在15世纪。相关词汇: Intensifiedintensifying

I am aware that this word [intensifying] occurs neither in Johnson's Dictionary nor in any classical writer. But the word, "to intend," which Newton and others before him employ in this sense, is now so completely appropriated to another meaning, that I could not use it without ambiguity: while to paraphrase the sense, as by render intense, would often break up the sentence and destroy that harmony of the position of the words with the logical position of the thoughts, which is a beauty in all composition, and more especially desirable in a close philosophical investigation. I have therefore hazarded the word, intensify; though, I confess, it sounds uncouth to my own ear. [Coleridge, footnote in "Biographia Literaria," 1817]
我知道这个词[intensifying]既不在约翰逊的词典中,也不在任何古典作家的作品中出现。但是牛顿和他之前的其他人在这个意义上使用的“to intend”这个词现在已经完全被另一个意思所占用,我不能使用它而不产生歧义:而将其意思解释为 render intense,则经常会破坏句子的结构,破坏单词的逻辑位置与思想的逻辑位置之间的和谐,这是所有作品中的美感,尤其是在紧密的哲学研究中更为理想。因此,我冒险使用了 intensify 这个词,尽管我承认,这个词听起来很奇怪。[柯勒律治,《文学传记》,1817年]

该词起源时间:1817年