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insular

/in-suh-ler, ins-yuh-/US // ˈɪn sə lər, ˈɪns yə- //UK // (ˈɪnsjʊlə) //

孤陋寡闻,孤立的,孤立无援的,孤僻的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : narrow-minded or illiberal; provincial: insular attitudes toward foreigners.
    • : standing alone; detached; isolated: an insular building.
    • : of or relating to an island or islands: a nation's insular possessions.
    • : dwelling or situated on an island.
    • : forming an island: insular rocks.
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of islanders or isolated people: insular tribes;insular sects.
    • : Pathology. occurring in or characterized by one or more isolated spots, patches, or the like.
    • : Anatomy. pertaining to an island of cells or tissue, as the islets of Langerhans.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an inhabitant of an island; islander.

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Examples

  • Even if the judiciary’s leaders say they can police themselves, Minor said in the brief, the insular culture of the judiciary prohibits that.

  • Stories set in the Ivory Tower are often understood to be insular and low-stakes, with little to offer anyone who doesn’t possess a postgraduate degree.

  • They were a closed insular class but they were nonetheless connected to the world around them.

  • Yet the insular worlds of think-tanks and academia have the potential to be echo chambers, as does the human rights community that includes HRW.

  • The insular industry has a long way to go toward spreading the wealth, from expanding POC presence in product development and cultivation to expanding education around how to acquire medical cannabis licenses.

  • The Pritzker transforms architects from being merely good practitioners in a fairly insular field into global celebrities.

  • But the sad reality is that the comics industry is too insular to foster any kind of radical change.

  • All this observation and self-observation possibly says something very depressing about how insular and self-obsessing we are.

  • Doing so, he highlighted the degree to which creationism is a decidedly incurious, insular worldview.

  • The Executive is elected in broad national elections in which discrete and insular minorities carry less weight.

  • From this point of view, the superiority of the continental over the insular colonies was not to be doubted.

  • Horses and dresses are found in the insular forms, but, so far, I have not found a single instance of the tournament.

  • The true causes of the depression were not within the control of the Insular Government or of any ruling factor.

  • Of the taxes accruing to the Insular Treasury under the above law, 10 per cent.

  • The insular failing is elsewhere frequently displayed by the poet in the trying light cast from a misanthrope genius.