isolate

verb

/ˈaɪsəleɪt/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they isolate	/ˈaɪsəleɪt/ /ˈaɪsəleɪt/
he / she / it isolates	/ˈaɪsəleɪts/ /ˈaɪsəleɪts/
past simple isolated	/ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd/ /ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd/
past participle isolated	/ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd/ /ˈaɪsəleɪtɪd/
-ing form isolating	/ˈaɪsəleɪtɪŋ/ /ˈaɪsəleɪtɪŋ/

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to 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。
Topics Medicineb2
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）
- It is possible to isolate a number of factors that contributed to her downfall.可以找出造成她垮台的一些因素。
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
- Researchers are still trying to isolate the gene that causes this abnormality.研究人员仍然在试图分离导致这种畸形的基因。

Word Originearly 19th cent. (as a verb): back-formation from isolated.