| 单词 | isolate |
| 释义 | isolate (aɪsəleɪt ) Word forms: isolates , isolating , isolated 1. verb To isolate a person or organization means to cause them to lose their friends or supporters. This policy could isolate the country from the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. [VERB noun + from] Political influence is being used to shape public opinion and isolate critics. [VERB noun] Synonyms: separate, break up, cut off, detach isolated adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] They are finding themselves increasingly isolated within the teaching profession. Synonyms: solitary, withdrawn, lonely, sheltered isolation (aɪsəleɪʃən ) uncountable noun Diplomatic isolation could lead to economic disaster. ...the public isolation of the Prime Minister. 2. verb If you isolate yourself, or if something isolates you, you become physically or socially separated from other people. When he was thinking out a problem Tweed's habit was never to isolate himself in his room. [VERB pronoun-reflexive] His radicalism and refusal to compromise isolated him. [VERB noun] Police officers had a siege mentality that isolated them from the people they served. [VERB noun + from] But of course no one lives totally alone, isolated from the society around them. [VERB-ed] Suspected patients are isolated and kept under medical observation. [VERB noun] 3. verb If you isolate something such as an idea or a problem, you separate it from others that it is connected with, so that you can concentrate on it or consider it on its own. Our anxieties can also be controlled by isolating thoughts, feelings and memories. [VERB noun] Gandhi said that those who isolate religion from politics don't understand the nature of either. [VERB noun + from] 4. verb To isolate a substance means to obtain it by separating it from other substances using scientific processes. [technical] We can use genetic engineering techniques to isolate the gene that is responsible. [VERB noun] Researchers have isolated a new protein from the seeds of poppies. [VERB noun + from] ...the chemical isolated from brain tissue. [VERB-ed] 5. verb To isolate someone who has or could have an infectious disease means to keep them apart from other people, so that their illness does not spread. If someone who has or could have an infectious disease isolates, they keep apart from other people. She had swine flu and was isolated from her children. [be V-ed from n] You don't have to isolate them from the community. [VERB noun + from] Those who test positive are sent home to isolate for ten days. [VERB for noun] It's time for those not obeying the rules to be forced to isolate. [VERB] Collocations: isolate a community But such freedom cannot be used to isolate a community from the wider stream of national life. The Sun This alternative method was designed to isolate the community and the police less than traditional methods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They said that rail cancellations were likely and that deluged roads could leave communities isolated. Times,Sunday Times Communities isolated by language matter because they are going to remain separate and deprived. Times, Sunday Times Plus factors include the impressive scenery and the claustrophobic quality lent by a blizzard that isolates the community. Times, Sunday Times The extent to which a geological barrier can effectively isolate a population correlates to the mobility of the organism or its offspring. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We will be left with a hospital insufficiently resourced and staffed to provide comprehensive emergency services to our comparatively isolated population. Times, Sunday Times Two isolated populations have been joined, to the genetic enrichment of both. Times, Sunday Times As time passed, these isolated populations, subject to different environments and evolutionary pressures, eventually became two separate species. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Today, fewer than 8,000 survive in the wild in small and isolated populations. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 孤立 Japanese: 孤立させる |
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