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/ˌɪntərˈfɪr/ · /ˌɪntəˈfɪə/
To get involved in a situation where you are not wanted or needed, often by giving advice or trying to change what other people do.
干涉；干預
過去式 interfered過去分詞 interfered-ing interfering三單 interferes
核心畫面
Picture someone into a situation that was not theirs — offering advice nobody asked for, trying to change what other people had decided. The key is not the in but the not-being-wanted: help that was invited is not interference. That is why the word almost always carries .
可以想成：有人走進一件本來不關他的事——給沒人問過的建議、想改變別人已經決定好的做法。重點不在「介入」，而在「沒人希…更多收起
可以想成：有人走進一件本來不關他的事——給沒人問過的建議、想改變別人已經決定好的做法。重點不在「介入」，而在「沒人希望他介入」：被邀請的幫忙不叫 interfere。這就是為什麼這個字幾乎一定帶著責備的語氣，說 Don't interfere 等於在說「這不干你的事」。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
interfereverb/ˌɪn.tɚˈfɪɚ/
- 1
To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
- I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs.
- I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at another alder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, an alder branch.
- 2
natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsOf waves, to be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.
- Correlated waves interfere to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without interfering.
- Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations interfere the listener hears nothing but noise.
- 3
Of a horse, to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle by using the legs.
- 4
To sexually molest, especially of a child.
- The investigation found the girls had been interfered with.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。