isolate

1. V-T To isolate a person or organization means to cause them to lose their friends or supporters. 孤立

This policy could isolate the country from the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. 這項政策可能會將這個國家從聯郃國安理會的其他常任理事國中孤立出來。

2. isolatedADJ 孤立的

They are finding themselves increasingly isolated within the teaching profession. 他們發現自己在教育界中越來越孤立。

3. V-T If you isolate yourself, or if something isolates you, you become physically or socially separated from other people. 使孤立; 孤立

She seemed determined to isolate herself from everyone, even him. 她似乎決心要與每個人，甚至是他割斷聯系。

His radicalism and refusal to compromise isolated him. 他的激進和拒絕讓步使他受到了孤立。

4. V-T 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. 單獨考慮

Our anxieties can also be controlled by isolating thoughts, feelings and memories. 我們的焦慮也可以通過對思想、感情和記憶分別進行考慮來加以控制。

5. V-T To isolate a substance means to obtain it by separating it from other substances using scientific processes. 使離析[技術]

We can use genetic engineering techniques to isolate the gene that is responsible. 我們可以用遺傳工程技術將起作用的基因離析出來。

6. V-T To isolate a sick person or animal means to keep them apart from other people or animals, so that their illness does not spread. 隔離

Patients will be isolated from other people for between three days and one month after treatment. 治療之後，患者將被與他人隔離3天到1個月。

7. isolationN-UNCOUNT 隔離[oft N n]

Hayley contracted tuberculosis and had to be put in an isolation ward. 海利感染了肺結核而不得不被送進一個隔離病房。