新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

isolateIELTS重点词汇

英 [ˈaɪsəleɪt]

[VERB]

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VERB. 动词

isolates , isolating , isolated
1. [T 及物动词] 孤立
To isolate a person or organization means to cause them to lose their friends or supporters.
双语例句
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. [T 及物动词] 使孤立 , 孤立
If you isolate yourself, or if something isolates you, you become physically or socially separated from other people.
近义词
cut off
双语例句
例：
She seemed determined to isolate herself from everyone, even him.
她似乎决心要与每个人都切断联系，甚至是他也不例外。
例：
His radicalism and refusal to compromise isolated him.
他的激进主义和拒绝让步使他受到了孤立。
3. [T 及物动词] 单独考虑
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.
反义词
integrate
双语例句
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。
例：
attempts to isolate a single factor as the cause of the decline of Britain.
对分离出引起英国衰退的唯一原因所作的尝试。
4. [T 及物动词] 使离析 , 分离
To isolate a substance means to obtain it by separating it from other substances using scientific processes.
近义词
separate
双语例句
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分离出来。
例：
Researchers have isolated a new protein from the seeds of poppies.
研究者们已从罂粟的种子中分离出了一种新的蛋白质。
5. [T 及物动词] 隔离
To isolate a sick person or animal means to keep them apart from other people or animals, so that their illness does not spread.
双语例句
例：
Patients will be isolated from other people for between three days and one month after treatment.
治疗结束后，患者将与其他人隔离3天到1个月的时间。