isolate
verb /ˈaɪsəleɪt/
/ˈaɪsəleɪt/
动词形式
| 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/ |
- 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。
- isolate somebody/yourself/something Patients with the disease should be isolated.
- 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。
- It is possible to isolate a number of factors that contributed to her downfall.
- 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。
- Researchers are still trying to isolate the gene that causes this abnormality.
词源early 19th cent. (as a verb): back-formation from isolated.