Intervene

[ɪntə'viːn] or [,ɪntɚ'vin]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) occur between other event or between certain points of time; 'the war intervened between the birth of her two children'.

(verb.) get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; 'Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?'.

(verb.) be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events; 'This interludes intervenes between the two movements'; 'Eight days intervened'.

黛博拉校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

(v. i.) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.

(v. i.) To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.

(v. i.) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.

(v. t.) To come between.

(n.) A coming between; intervention; meeting.

阿加莎手打

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. [1]. Interfere, come between.[2]. Happen (in the mean time), occur, befall.

埃文編輯

解釋/意思:

v.i. to come or be between: to occur between points of time: to happen so as to interrupt: to interpose.—v.t. (rare) to separate.—adj. Interven′ient being or passing between: intervening.—ns. Interven′tion intervening: interference: mediation: interposition; Interven′tionist one who advocates interference with the course of disease rather than leaving it to nature; Interven′tor a mediator in ecclesiastical controversies: (U.S.) a mine-inspector.

編輯:马丁