单词 | intervention |
释义 | interventionn. 1. a. The action of intervening, ‘stepping in’, or interfering in any affair, so as to affect its course or issue. Now frequently applied to the interference of a state or government in the domestic affairs or foreign relations of another country. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] interventionc1425 interposition1462 striking1530 intercourse1586 entermise1600 intervening1605 intermitter1611 interposal1625 interveniencea1627 intermission1628 interveniency1660 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > [noun] > intervention or non-intervention non-intervention1824 intervention1831 non-entanglement1864 non-interventionism1917 interventionism1923 c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 44 That whatsumeuer..be denayid me of mercy may be fulfillid yn tyme to come by thyn interuencioun and merytys. 1619 Visct. Doncaster Let. in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 201 Though our master's intervention were at first sincerely desired [etc.]. 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 184 I know how much the intervention of the Gods is necessary to an Epick Poem. 1831 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers (1884) II. xvi. 103 The Whigs erected their administration on three legs—non-intervention, retrenchment, reform; they are..at this moment as deep in intervention as any Government ever was. 1866 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) II. 238/1 The intervention of the allied powers between Greece and Turkey in 1827. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 44 We need either a direct intervention of the foreign Powers, or a domestic revolution. b. Law. The action of one, not originally a party, who intervenes in a suit. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > joining of two parties against another > intervention in a suit labour1423 intervention1860 1860 Act 23 & 24 Vict. c. 144 §7 The said Proctor..may..intervene in the Suit, alleging such Case of Collusion..and it shall be lawful for the Court to order the Costs..arising from such Intervention, to be paid by the Parties. 1864 G. Browne Treat. Princ. & Pract. Court for Divorce & Matrimonial Causes 152 There are two kinds of intervention, one ‘by any person’ under the first branch of the section, the second by the Queen's proctor under the latter branch... It appears that at any time before a decree for dissolution of marriage is made absolute, it is competent for one of the public to intervene. 1864 G. Browne Treat. Princ. & Pract. Court for Divorce & Matrimonial Causes 153 The Court will not act on an intervention, when satisfied that it is made at the instance of the respondent or co-respondent. 1883 Wharton's Law-lexicon (ed. 7) 429/1 An intervener must take the cause as he finds it at the time of his intervention. 1952 Stroud's Judicial Dict. (ed. 3) II. 1500 Intervention in divorce proceedings (generally by the King's Proctor) is for (a) collusion, or (b) suppression of a material fact. 2. Intermediate agency; the fact of coming in or being employed as an intermediary. a. Of persons. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency > specifically of persons intermediation1602 intervention1659 inter-agency1728 internuncioship1748 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 156 Adam was framed immediately by God, without the intervention of man or woman. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xvii. 255 Injuries to the rights of property can scarcely be committed by the crown without the intervention of it's officers. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ii. 366 The Supreme Council resolved to treat with the ministers at Poona by an agent of their own, without the intervention of the Presidency of Bombay. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxxii. 441 Then by the intervention of Petersen, I called on Kalatunah for his story. b. Of things. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency mediationc1425 interventure1578 intermise1612 refraction1614 intercedence1640 intervent1657 intervention1665 intermediacy1713 intermedium1805 intermediary1859 mediumship1871 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iii. ii. sig. R2 Loggs, on which the Fire could take no hold, but by the intervention of..smaller Sticks. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iv. §3. 123 Things which cause pain operate on the mind, by the intervention of the body. 1881 B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort New Test. in Orig. Greek II. Introd. i. 13 A text was constructed..without the intervention of any printed edition. 3. a. The fact of coming or being situated between in place, time, or order. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] interventure1578 intercourse1589 intercession1605 interjacency1646 interventiona1650 interveniency1660 interjacence1864 betweenness1892 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > middle > [noun] > quality or fact of being intermediate intervenue1636 interventiona1650 intermediacyc1840 intermediateness1854 a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) xxi. 165 The heat never being very great, and..often interrupted by the intervention of the foul weather. 1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 84 The Trade Winds..are frequently impeded by the intervention of Islands, and Crosse Winds. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 251 Notwithstanding the intervention of one or two dear years. View more context for this quotation 1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. xix. 248 Those masses..are connected with it loosely, by the intervention of cellular membrane. 1875 P. Le P. Renouf Egypt. Gram. 8 The intervention of a vowel must be understood. b. An intervening thing, event, or period of time. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > intervening occurrence intercourse1589 intercurrence1603 intercurrency1670 intervention1676 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > middle > [noun] > intermediate thing intermediate1650 intervention1676 1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine: 2nd Pt. 127 The Publick Imployments, that..have been put upon me, and many other Interventions. 1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 8 597 Not..to entirely read them, but to turn them over with interventions of study. Derivatives interˈventional adj. of or pertaining to intervention. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [adjective] interventional1829 interventive1890 1829 J. Bentham Justice & Codification Petitions iv. 61 Under every system, appeal is for cause assigned, namely..mis-decision, either ultimate or interlocutory, or say interventional. interˈventionism n. the principle or policy of intervening, esp. in international and economic affairs. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > [noun] > intervention or non-intervention non-intervention1824 intervention1831 non-entanglement1864 non-interventionism1917 interventionism1923 1923 Glasgow Herald 29 Mar. 5 The methods of interventionism..are contrary to the spirit of cooperation. 1940 Economist 6 July 2/2 It was not primarily because of this advocacy of support for Britain that Mr. Willkie was nominated... We cannot go further than to say that Mr. Willkie's interventionism did not prevent his success. Moreover, there are severe limitations on interventionism even of the Willkie type... For example, there is the almost universal qualification that aid must stop ‘short of war’. 1945 K. R. Popper Open Society II. xvii. 117 We must demand that laissez-faire capitalism give way to an economic interventionism. 1945 K. R. Popper Open Society, Notes 318 I suggest using the name laissez-faire capitalism for that period which Marx analysed..and the name interventionism for our own period. The name ‘interventionism’ could indeed cover the three main types of social engineering in our time: the collectivist interventionism of Russia; the democratic interventionism of Sweden and the ‘Smaller Democracies’ and the New Deal in America. 1967 Economist 30 Sept. 1162/1 The new interventionism is an economic theory that came into vogue with some Labour intellectuals about three years ago, and with some core of justification. Its kernel was the entirely true argument that the governments of some countries with successful postwar economic records (e.g. France, Japan, Italy) have had greater scope for influencing the course of major industrial investment than have the less successful governments of postwar Britain. 1969 Observer 26 Jan. 8/4 America has never swung back..to isolationism and Russia has never regressed to all-out revolutionary interventionism. 1970 Times 2 July 8/3 It will not be easy to persuade the country to prefer government interventionism to the freedom which is Mr. Heath's aim. interˈventionist n. one who approves of intervention, esp. in international affairs; one who favours a doctrine of intervention; one who favours intervention with the course of a disease on medical grounds ( Cent. Dict.); also as adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > [noun] > intervention or non-intervention > supporter of non-interventionist1831 interventionist1839 non-interventionalist1859 1839 Morning Herald 23 Apr. Changing the character and offices of mediators into those of warlike interventionists. 1899 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 476 There have been interventionists and anti-interventionists in South Africa. 1915 Morning Post 19 Apr. 8/4 Interventionist, and, in some places, neutralist meetings were held yesterday at Milan. 1921 Glasgow Herald 22 July 7 M. Tchitcherin sees in this fact another ‘interventionist’ manœuvre. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Aug. 648/2 The ‘interventionist’ conception of miracle has passed out of fashion. 1962 Listener 20 Dec. 1040/1 The long-standing tradition [sc. in France] of an active, confident, and interventionist civil service. 1971 Physics Bull. June 261/2 Interventionists such as Joan of Arc, Ralph Nader, Ghandi [sic] and Sir Alan Herbert. 1973 Financial Times 28 Feb. 27/2 The contrast between the philosophy of the Conservative Government that believed so earnestly in the miraculous powers of laissez-faire in 1970 and the interventionist Conservative Government of today. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1425 |
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