| 单词 | intervene |
| 释义 | intervene (ɪntəʳviːn ) Word forms: intervenes , intervening , intervened 1. verb If you intervene in a situation, you become involved in it and try to change it. The situation calmed down when police intervened. [VERB] The Government is doing nothing to intervene in the crisis. [VERB + in] Synonyms: step in [informal], interfere, mediate, intrude 2. verb If you intervene, you interrupt a conversation in order to add something to it. Hattie intervened and told me to stop it. [VERB] 'I've told you he's not here,' Irena intervened. [VERB with quote] Synonyms: interrupt, involve yourself, put your oar in, interpose yourself 3. verb If an event intervenes, it happens suddenly in a way that stops, delays, or prevents something from happening. The South African mailboat arrived on Friday mornings unless bad weather intervened. [VERB] I pray that death may not intervene to prevent our meeting with my darling children. [VERB to-infinitive] Collocations: police intervene Only then did the riot police intervene. Times, Sunday Times Only when the youth started to defend himself did the city police intervene; they arrested him for disturbing the peace and took him to jail. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He recovers to secure a technical knockout when police intervene after the third round and stop the fight. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Punches flew, along with chairs and tables from a nearby café, before riot police intervened with tear gas to separate the two sides. Times, Sunday Times Inside, customers cowered in fear for 20 minutes before police intervened to break up the mob. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 干预 Japanese: 介入する |
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