One way to picture it: something is running along in a line — a sentence, a game, a horizon — and something cuts in from the side and breaks that line. Not an ending; a gap in the middle.
From the word’s history
From Latin interrumpere: inter- ('between') + rumpere ('to break', as in rupture) — literally 'to break in between', which is still the modern picture.
拉丁文 interrumpere 由 inter-（在…之間）加 rumpere（破裂、折斷，同源於 rupture、erupt）組成，字面就是「從中間打破」——正好是現代這個「切進去、把連續的東西弄斷」的畫面。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'interrupt'
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
interruptionnoun/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/
- 1
The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
- One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"[…]and so on.
- 2
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesthe act of breaking into someone else’s speech.
- 3
A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。