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interpose

/in-ter-pohz/US // ˌɪn tərˈpoʊz //UK // (ˌɪntəˈpəʊz) //

插话,穿插,插队,穿插进行

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·ter·posed, in·ter·pos·ing.

    • : to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
    • : to put between or in the way of.
    • : to put in in the midst of a conversation, discourse, or the like.
    • : to bring to bear between parties, or on behalf of a party or person.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·ter·posed, in·ter·pos·ing.

    • : to come between other things; assume an intervening position or relation.
    • : to step in between parties at variance; mediate.
    • : to put in or make a remark by way of interruption.

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Examples

  • In a sweeping injunction issued on June 5, Judge Seybourn Lynne forbade Wallace from “physically interposing his person” to block the entrance of the students.

  • Mr. Pontellier declined to interfere, to interpose either his influence or his authority.

  • The Canadian tried to interpose, but the Chief sternly imposed silence on him.

  • I felt it was time to interpose, and said that I did not see that it would help us very much to go into that matter in detail.

  • But when Meg proposed to take the girl immediately back to Gray Gables, he did not interpose the least objection.

  • There is a proverb which foretells peril to such as interpose in the quarrels of others.