intervention
n
~ (in sth) [C, U]
(instance of) interfering or becoming involved, eg to prevent sth happening 干涉, 干预, 介入(如阻止某事发生)
armed intervention by one country in the affairs of another 一国对另一国内政的武力干涉
He had been saved from death as if by divine intervention, ie as though God had taken action to save him. 他得以死里逃生似有神助.
Could any spectacle, for instance, be more grimly whimsical than that of gunners ourselves very seriously what will happen if this twofold use of knowledge, with its ever-increasing power, continues.