come between so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events
(为防止或改变某事件结果或过程)插入,插手,介入;干预,干涉
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he acted outside his authority when he intervened in the dispute 他越权介入这场纠纷
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[with infinitive]
their forces intervened to halt the attack .他们的部队插手中止了这次攻击。
(of an event or circumstance)occur as a delay or obstacle to something being done
(造成延缓或阻碍的事件或情形)发生,来到于其间
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Christmas intervened and the investigation was suspended .这期间圣诞节来到了,调查暂停。
interrupt verbally
插话,打岔
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[with direct speech]
‘It's true!’ he intervened .“这是真的!”他插话说。
【律】 (作为第三方)介入诉讼。
[usu. as adj.
前后两件事间发生
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to occupy the intervening months she took a job in a hospital .为了打发期间的这几个月她在医院里找了份工作。
be situated between things
位于(事物)之间
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they heard the sound of distant gunfire, muffled by the intervening trees .他们听到了远处传来的枪声,只是由于树林间隔,枪声减弱了。
"late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘come in as an extraneous factor or thing’): from Latin