intense
英検2級・大学受験強烈な・激しい
意味
- (感情・性質などが)激しい,強烈な,熱心な
例文
The pain was so intense that I couldn't sleep.
痛くて痛くて、眠れなかった。
The effects of the drug are intense but brief.
その薬の効果は強烈だが短い。
Due to the intense sunlight, his back was sunburnt.
強い日差しで彼の背中はひどく焼けた。
語源
in-〜へ＋tense張る
ラテン語intendere「ぴんと張る」から。張りつめた「激しい・強烈な」。
tension（緊張）、intend（意図する）と同じ仲間。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Late Middle English intens, intense (“ardent, fervent; extreme, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intense (modern French intense), or directly from its etymon Latin intēnsus (“strained, stretched tight; intense; attentive; violent; (rare) eager, intent”), the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)).