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    /ˌɪntərˈvenʃən/ · /ˌɪntəˈvenʃən/

    The act of getting involved in a situation in order to change what is happening, often to stop a problem.

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核心畫面

You can picture 'intervention' as in between — something was heading one way, and you come into the middle of it to change where it goes, usually to stop a problem from getting worse.

可以把 intervention 想成『踏進中間』：事情本來往某個方向走，你從中間插進去、改變它的走向，通常是為了阻…更多收起可以把 intervention 想成『踏進中間』：事情本來往某個方向走，你從中間插進去、改變它的走向，通常是為了阻止一個問題繼續惡化。

From the word’s history

From Latin intervenire, inter- 'between' + venire 'to come' — literally 'to come between'. An intervention is the act of coming into the middle of something already in motion.

來自拉丁文 intervenire，inter-（之間）加 venire（來），字面就是『來到中間』。intervention 就是踏進一件已經在進行的事情中間的那個動作。

etymonline.com/word/intervention (Online Etymology Dictionary)

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。

interventionnoun/ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/

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    The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.

    • Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.
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    lawA legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.

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    An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.

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    medicinesciencesAn action taken or procedure performed; an operation.

    • As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.
    • “It goes with my mantra of there is ‘no magic pill’ to prevent cognitive decline,” said Isaacson, who was not involved in the new study. “At my clinic, we check nutritional blood measures and personally tailor interventions, and in doing so we don’t tend to recommend multivitamins since we address the individual deficiencies.”

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。