核心畫面
Picture something running along without a break — a sentence, a process, a straight line of hedge — and something else cutting into it so the run stops there. Interrupt is that cutting-in. The thing interrupted was continuous, and after the cut it either starts again or is left with a gap in it.
可以想成：有樣東西正一路不間斷地進行——一句話、一個流程、一排整齊的樹籬——然後另一樣東西插進來，那個「一路下去」就…更多收起
可以想成：有樣東西正一路不間斷地進行——一句話、一個流程、一排整齊的樹籬——然後另一樣東西插進來，那個「一路下去」就在那裡斷了。interrupt 講的就是這個插入。被打斷的東西本來是連續的，被切之後要嘛重新開始，要嘛就留下一個缺口。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。
interruptverb/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/
- 1
To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
- A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.
- Do not interrupt me in my course.
- 2
To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
- The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
- 3
computingengineeringmathematicsTo assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
- The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.
interruptnoun/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/
- 1
businesscomputingelectrical-engineeringAn event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
- The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.
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。