By isolation I mean that we are all the time seeking security, gratification and power.

我说的孤立，意思是我们总是寻求安全感、满足感和权力。

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The pressure-cooker of emotions induced by isolation (the road round the island was completed only in 1974) dispel any stereotypes of Nordic stolidity.

由孤立引起的紧张的压力情绪（环岛公路在1974年才建成），消除了北欧对其任何冷淡的成见。

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The hotel stands in splendid isolation , surrounded by moorland.

那旅馆岿然独立，周围是一片荒原。

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The fighting was halted by a 1953 armistice but with no peace treaty, the two Koreas remain technically at war, amid decades of isolation and hostility.

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Because sometimes the value of a combination is different then the value you would get by just thinking about each one of the parts in isolation and then adding them up.

因为有时一个组合的价值会不同,那么你得到的价值是只单独考虑每一部分,然后把它们相加所得。

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'And by isolation, I mean the sense of isolation, while having all the culture of the city, too.

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The region's giant, South Africa, was largely protected by its isolation from the rest of the world during the apartheid years.

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However, this tiny hamlet on the island of Karpathos is the bastion of a distinct culture, protected for centuries from the outside world by its isolation and strategic location.

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