| 单词 | intervening |
| 释义 | intervening (once / 1113 pages) adj Intervening means happening between other things. Middle school is an intervening phase between elementary school and high school. Intervening is an adjective that comes from the Latin intervenire, from inter-, meaning “between,” and venire, meaning “come.” That which is intervening comes between. The intervening period of your life between high school and college could involve a stint in the circus. You never know. WORD FAMILYintervene: intervened, intervenes, intervening, intervenor, intervention+/intervenor: intervenors/intervention: interventions, nonintervention USAGE EXAMPLESBy intervening, however, the central government would risk reigniting the passions that flared in 2014 when demonstrators paralysed business districts with sit-ins for several weeks. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) In the intervening time, they say, they will somehow keep people from losing insurance. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) As a result, governments are intervening more frequently in exchange markets, often in nontransparent ways that raise suspicions of currency manipulation. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) adj occurring or falling between events or points in time so much had happened during the intervening years Syn middle between an earlier and a later period of time |
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