intervene
英[?nt?'vi?n]
美[,?nt?'vin]
- vi. 干涉；調(diào)停；插入
英英釋意
- 1. get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force;
- "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?"
- 2. be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events;
- "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"
- "Eight days intervened"
- 3. occur between other event or between certain points of time;
- "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"