isolate
verbto separate somebody/something physically or socially from other people or things (使)隔离,孤立,脱离 - isolate somebody/yourself/something
Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。 Engineers isolated the gas supply to the house. 工程师们切断了房子的煤气供应。 - isolate somebody/yourself/something from somebody/something
He was immediately isolated from the other prisoners. 他被立刻与其他囚犯隔离开来。 This decision will isolate the country from the rest of Europe. 这一决定会使国家孤立于欧洲其他国家。
- isolate somebody/yourself/something
- isolate something (from something) (formal)
to separate a part of a situation, problem, idea, etc. so that you can see what it is and deal with it separately 将…剔出(以便看清和单独处理) - isolate something (from something) (specialist)
to separate a single substance, cell, etc. from others so that you can study it 使(某物质、细胞等)分离;使离析
Word Originearly 19th cent. (as a verb): back-formation from isolated.