the intervening years/months/period etcBETWEENtime that passes between two events 〔两件事情之间的〕那些年/数个月/那段时期等 I hadn’t seen him since 1980, and he had aged a lot in the intervening years. 我自1980年以来就没见过他，这些年里他老了不少。
→ the intervening years/months/period etc at intervening(1)