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Isolate 3995.Isolate 英 Aɪsəleɪt]美 Aɪsəlɪt 释义 Vt 使隔离;使孤立;使绝缘n

正面 3995.isolate
英 ['aɪsəleɪt]美 ['aɪsəlɪt]

背面
释义:
vt. 使隔离;使孤立;使绝缘n. [生物] 隔离种群vi. 隔离;孤立adj. 隔离的;孤立的
例句:
1. 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。

1. 感觉如此孤独,只因爱来如此晚 (i (爱) + so + late).
isolate 隔离,孤立来自isle,岛,引申词义使成孤岛,隔离,孤立,词源同insulate.
isolate (v.)by 1786, a new formation from isolated (q.v.). The translation of this work is well performed, excepting that fault from which few translations are wholly exempt, and which is daily tending to corrupt our language, the adoption of French expressions. We have here evasion for escape, twice or more times repeated; brigands very frequently; we have the unnecessary and foolish word isolate; and, if we mistake not, paralize, which at least has crept in through a similar channel. Translators cannot be too careful on this point, as it is a temptation to which they are constantly exposed. ["The British Critic," April 1799] As a noun from 1890, from earlier adjectival use (1819)."

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