intervene
柯林斯詞典
1. V-I If you intervene in a situation, you become involved in it and try to change it. 干預(yù)
The situation calmed down when police intervened. 警察干預(yù)后，局勢(shì)平靜了下來。
2. V-I If you intervene, you interrupt a conversation in order to add something to it. 插話
Hernandez intervened and told me to stop it. 賀爾南德茲插話，不讓我再說下去。
3. V-I If an event intervenes, it happens suddenly in a way that stops, delays, or prevents something from happening. 干擾
The mailboat arrived on Friday mornings unless bad weather intervened. 除非受到惡劣天氣的干擾，郵船于星期五上午到達(dá)。
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intervene /??nt??vi?n/ (intervening,intervened,intervenes)
劍橋詞典
- There is increasing demand for the United Nations to intervene in trouble spots throughout the world .
- I'd like to help but I don't have the power to intervene in this dispute .
- The army's potentiality to intervene in politics remains strong .
- Their only hope now is that the outside world will intervene but it is an increasingly forlorn hope .
- The Bank of England intervened this morning to defend the pound .
intervene verb [I] (GET INVOLVED)
to intentionally become involved in a difficult situation in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse干涉，干預(yù)；調(diào)停
The Central Bank intervened in the currency markets today to try to stabilize the exchange rate . 中央銀行今天對(duì)貨幣市場(chǎng)進(jìn)行了干預(yù)，試圖穩(wěn)定匯率。
[ 動(dòng)詞后面接一個(gè)帶to的不定式 ] The minister intervened personally to stop the museum from being closed . 部長(zhǎng)親自干預(yù)以阻止博物館的關(guān)閉。
例句
intervene verb [I] (COME BETWEEN)
to happen between two times or between other events or activities
發(fā)生于其間
Two decades intervened between the completion of the design and the opening of the theatre . 從設(shè)計(jì)完成到戲院投入使用相隔20年。 返回 intervene