The word "isolate" functions as a verb with several definitions: to cause separation from friends or supporters, to become physically or socially separated from others, to consider an idea or problem independently, to obtain a substance through scientific separation, and to quarantine a sick individual. It can also mean to separate or disconnect something from other things.
The word "isolate" is a verb with multiple meanings, including causing someone or something to be alone or separate from others, making oneself physically or socially separate, considering something on its own, separating a substance through scientific processes, and quarantining a sick person or animal to prevent the spread of illness.
[VERB 动词]使孤立；使脱离(朋友、支持者) To isolate a person or organization means to cause them to lose their friends or supporters.
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This policy could isolate the country from the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council...
这一政策可能会使该国孤立于联合国安全理事会其他常任理事国之外。
Political influence is being used to shape public opinion and isolate critics.
政治影响正被用来左右公众舆论，使批评家们陷于孤立。
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They are finding themselves increasingly isolated within the teaching profession.
他们发现自己在教育界越来越孤立无助。
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Diplomatic isolation could lead to economic disaster.
外交孤立可能导致经济灾难。
...the public isolation of the Prime Minister.
首相受到公众的冷落
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[VERB 动词]使隔离；使与世隔绝 If you isolate yourself, or if something isolates you, you become physically or socially separated from other people.
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When he was thinking out a problem Tweed's habit was never to isolate himself in his room...
思考问题的时候，特威德从来没有把自己关在房间里的习惯。
His radicalism and refusal to compromise isolated him...
他的激进主义与拒绝妥协使他受到孤立。
Police officers had a siege mentality that isolated them from the people they served...
警察们有一种受围心态，这使得他们脱离了所服务的群众。
But of course no one lives totally alone, isolated from the society around them.
但是，当然没人是完全脱离周围社会一个人生存。
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[VERB 动词]单独考虑；区别看待 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.
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Our anxieties can also be controlled by isolating thoughts, feelings and memories...
我们也可以通过将一些想法、感情与记忆分开考虑以控制焦虑情绪。
...attempts to isolate a single factor as the cause of the decline of Britain...
试图分离出一种因素作为英国衰退的原因
Gandhi said that those who isolate religion from politics don't understand the nature of either.
甘地说过，那些主张政教分离者对两者的本质都不了解。
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[VERB 动词]使离析；分离 To isolate a substance means to obtain it by separating it from other substances using scientific processes.
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We can use genetic engineering techniques to isolate the gene that is responsible...
我们可以使用基因工程技术把相关基因分离出来。
Researchers have isolated a new protein from the seeds of poppies.
研究人员已经从罂粟种子里分离出一种新的蛋白质。
...the chemical isolated from brain tissue.
从脑组织里分离出的一种化学物质
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[VERB 动词]隔离(病人、生病动物) To isolate a sick person or animal means to keep them apart from other people or animals, so that their illness does not spread.
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Patients will be isolated from other people for between three days and one month after treatment...
治疗结束后，病人将与其他人隔离3天到1个月的时间。
You don't have to isolate them from the community.
你没必要把他们与社区隔离。
Oxford
isol·ateAWL/ˈaɪsəleɪt; NAmEˈaɪsəleɪt/verb1to separate sb/sth physically or socially from other people or things （使）隔离，孤立，脱离isolatesb/yourself/sth ◆Patients with the disease should be isolated.这种病的患者应予以隔离。isolatesb/yourself/sth from sb/sth ◆He was immediately isolated from the other prisoners.他被立刻与其他囚犯隔离开来。◆This decision will isolate the country from the rest of Europe.这一决定会使国家孤立于欧洲其他国家。2isolatesth (from sth) ( formal) to separate a part of a situation, problem, idea, etc. so that you can see what it is and deal with it separately 将…剔出（以便看清和单独处理）◆It is possible to isolate a number of factors that contributed to her downfall.可以找出造成她垮台的一些因素。3isolatesth (from sth) ( technical 术语) to separate a single substance, cell, etc. from others so that you can study it 使（某物质、细胞等）分离；使离析◆Researchers are still trying to isolate the gene that causes this abnormality.研究人员仍然在试图分离导致这种畸形的基因。isolateisolatesisolatedisolatingisol·ate/ˈaɪsəleɪt; NAmEˈaɪsəleɪt/
1to separate one person, group, or thing from other people or things: The town was isolated by the floods. The US has sought to isolate Cuba both economically and politically.isolate somebody from somebody Presley’s phenomenal early success isolated him from his friends.isolate somebody from something Newborn babies must be isolated from possible contamination.2if you isolate an idea, problem etc, you consider it separately from other things that are connected with itisolate something from something It is impossible to isolate political responsibility from moral responsibility.3technical to separate a substance, disease etc from other substances so that it can be studiedisolate something from something The hepatitis B virus has been isolated from breast milk.
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[ˈaɪsəleɪt]isolated, isolating, isolates
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isolated[7183] isolating[574]
隔离(87%)，使孤立(6%)，孤立的(4%)，单独的(3%)
n.[生物] 隔离种群
vt.使隔离；使孤立；使绝缘
adj.隔离的；孤立的
vi.隔离；孤立
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