with obj.
1- cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others使隔离; 使孤立; 使脱离：
a country which is isolated from the rest of the world.
一个与世隔绝的国度。
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- identify (something) and examine or deal with it separately孤立处理：
you can't isolate stress from the management context.
你不能把压力从管理的大环境中孤立出来对待。
1.2
- Chemistry & Biology obtain or extract (a compound, micro-organism, etc.) in a pure form【化, 生】使离析; 使分离。
1.3
- cut off the electrical or other connection to (something, especially a part of a supply network)使绝缘。
1.4
- place (a person or animal) in quarantine as a precaution against infectious or contagious disease使隔离（免受疾病传染）。
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- a person or thing which has been or become isolated被隔离的人（或物）：
social isolates often become careless of their own welfare.
与社会隔绝的人往往对他们自己的福利毫不关心。
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- Biology a culture of micro-organisms isolated for study【生】（用于研究的）分离菌, 隔离群。
派生词
isolable
adjectiveisolatable
adjectiveisolator
noun词源
early 19th cent. (as a verb)： back-formation from ISOLATED.