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isolate

verb
 
🔊/ˈaɪsəleɪt/
🔊/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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  1.  
    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.工程师们隔离了房子的天然气供应。
    • 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
  2.  
    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。🔊🔊
  3. 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。🔊🔊
    4. Word Originearly 19th cent. (as a verb): back-formation from isolated.