| 单词 | isolate |
| 释义 | isolate (once / 258 pages) v When you remove or set apart one thing from others, you isolate it. You could isolate yourself from people by living in a remote hut or, if you're a biologist, you could isolate a chromosome. The verb isolate comes from the adjective isolated, which comes from the Latin insulatas, meaning “made into an island.” You may have heard the John Donne quote, “No man is an island.” Donne was claiming that no matter how much you might try to isolate yourself from the rest of humanity, in the end people are all connected to one another. Humanity’s need for connectedness may, in fact, be illustrated by the fact that jailers frequently isolate criminals as punishment. WORD FAMILYisolate: isolable, isolated, isolates, isolating, isolation+/isolated: isolatedly/isolation: isolationism, isolations/isolationism: isolationist, isolationistic/isolationist: isolationists USAGE EXAMPLESHe also said he would ratchet up pressure on China to further isolate North Korea if necessary. Wall Street Journal(Jan 03, 2017) His contentious Twitter posts belie his relative calm when he is at Mar-a-Lago compared with when he is isolated inside Trump Tower. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Isolating a moment of inspiration in a film is an interesting challenge. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) 1v place or set apart They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates Syn|Hypo|Hyper insulate segregate separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others ghettoise, ghettoizeput in a ghetto cloisterseclude from the world in or as if in a cloister seclude, sequester, sequestrate, withdrawkeep away from others quarantineplace into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons maroonleave stranded on a desert island without resources discriminate, separate, single out treat differently on the basis of sex or race 2v set apart from others Syn|Hyper keep apart, sequester, sequestrate, set apart disunite, divide, part, separate force, take, or pull apart 3v obtain in pure form The chemist managed to isolate the compound Hypo|Hyper preisolate isolate beforehand acquire, get come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 4v separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them Hyper assort, class, classify, separate, sort, sort out arrange or order by classes or categories |
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