interject
verb🔊/ˌɪntəˈdʒekt/
🔊/ˌɪntərˈdʒekt/
[transitive, intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they interject | 🔊/ˌɪntəˈdʒekt/ 🔊/ˌɪntərˈdʒekt/ |
| he / she / it interjects | 🔊/ˌɪntəˈdʒekts/ 🔊/ˌɪntərˈdʒekts/ |
| past simple interjected | 🔊/ˌɪntəˈdʒektɪd/ 🔊/ˌɪntərˈdʒektɪd/ |
| past participle interjected | 🔊/ˌɪntəˈdʒektɪd/ 🔊/ˌɪntərˈdʒektɪd/ |
| -ing form interjecting | 🔊/ˌɪntəˈdʒektɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌɪntərˈdʒektɪŋ/ |
- + speech | interject (something)
to interrupt what somebody is saying with your opinion or a remark 打断（别人的讲话）；插话 Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin interject- ‘interposed’, from the verb interjicere, from inter- ‘between’ + jacere ‘to throw’.