isolate /ˈaɪsəleɪt/ CET4 TEM4 ( isolating, isolated, isolates )

• 1. 

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

  例：

  This policy could isolate the country from the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

  这项政策可能会将这个国家从联合国安理会的其他常任理事国中孤立出来。

• 2. 

  isolated ADJ 孤立的

  例：

  They are finding themselves increasingly isolated within the teaching profession.

  他们发现自己在教育界中越来越孤立。

• 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

  例：

  She seemed determined to isolate herself from everyone, even him.

  她似乎决心要与每个人，甚至是他割断联系。

  例：

  His radicalism and refusal to compromise isolated him.

  他的激进和拒绝让步使他受到了孤立。

• 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. 单独考虑

  例：

  Our anxieties can also be controlled by isolating thoughts, feelings and memories.

  我们的焦虑也可以通过对思想、感情和记忆分别进行考虑来加以控制。

• 5. 

  V-T To isolate a substance means to obtain it by separating it from other substances using scientific processes. 使离析 [技术]

  例：

  We can use genetic engineering techniques to isolate the gene that is responsible.

  我们可以用遗传工程技术将起作用的基因离析出来。

• 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. 隔离

  例：

  Patients will be isolated from other people for between three days and one month after treatment.

  治疗之后，患者将被与他人隔离3天到1个月。

• 7. 

  isolation N-UNCOUNT 隔离 [oft N n]

  例：

  Hayley contracted tuberculosis and had to be put in an isolation ward.

  海利感染了肺结核而不得不被送进一个隔离病房。