If something has intrinsic value or intrinsic interest, it is valuable or interesting because of its basic nature or character, and not because of its connection with other things.
例句
The paintings have no intrinsic value except as curiosities...這些油畫除了作為古董,本身沒有什么內在價值。The rate is determined by intrinsic qualities such as the land's slope.速度由諸如地面坡度這樣的內在因素決定。
英漢詞典釋義
adv.
從本質上(講)
I did not expect the job to be intrinsically rewarding.我并沒有期望這份工作本身會有什么好處。The Romantics believed that the life of the imagination was intrinsically valuable.浪漫主義作家認為想像的生命力本身就很重要。