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intervene

/in-ter-veen/US // ˌɪn tərˈvin //UK // (ˌɪntəˈviːn) //

介入,插手,插手干预,干预

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·ter·vened, in·ter·ven·ing.

    • : to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
    • : to occur or be between two things.
    • : to occur or happen between other events or periods: Nothing important intervened between the meetings.
    • : to occur incidentally so as to modify or hinder: We enjoyed the picnic until a thunderstorm intervened.
    • : to interfere with force or a threat of force: to intervene in the affairs of another country.
    • : Law. to interpose and become a party to a suit pending between other parties.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmediate
Forms: intervened, intervenes, intervening

Examples

  • The weekly reports have always been published by scientists and other public health professionals alone, without other branches of the government intervening.

  • Hancock said the new rule will be “rigorously enforced by police,” who currently have no powers to intervene when up to 30 people gather.

  • In the next few years, the company also plans to work to identify specific employees who may be at risk for developing a certain conditions and intervene, according to Lee.

  • It points to Russia, where Yandex was reportedly able to make mobile gains against Google, after antitrust regulators intervened, as provisional evidence for this predicted outcome.

  • NBC 7 got its hands on all three of the legal reviews, and after publishing a story last week detailing the failures of officials who brokered a deal that disproportionately benefited developers, Elliott’s office intervened.

  • Nothing in it was meant to change the basic operations of the capitalist economy or to intervene aggressively in class relations.

  • Please, Your Excellencies, consider my case with justice and intervene on my behalf.

  • Starr stresses that universities are required under Title IX to investigate and intervene in sexual assault cases.

  • Many Syrian rebels remain furious with what they view as a cynical U.S. decision to intervene in Syria against ISIS but not Assad.

  • Even if he had wanted to intervene, he couldn't have as he is "no Arnold Schwarzenegger," as he says.

  • Now and then Fortunio had to intervene, to make plainer to this ignorant Piedmontese mind the Marquise's questions.

  • His lordship would not intervene; he swore he hoped the cub would be flayed alive by Wilding.

  • The attack was so sudden that Walker went down, and Sanny was on top of him before anyone could intervene.

  • She looked at him, yet across her eyes, as across her soul, the same misty curtain seemed to intervene.

  • Vanderbank had just debated, recalling engagements; which gave Mrs. Brook time to intervene.