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isolating

/ahy-suh-ley-ting, is-uh-/US // ˈaɪ səˌleɪ tɪŋ, ˈɪs ə- //UK // (ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪŋ) //

隔离的,隔离,孤立的,隔离式

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Linguistics.

    • : pertaining to or noting a language, as Vietnamese, that uses few or no bound forms and in which grammatical relationships are indicated chiefly through word order.Compare agglutinative, inflectional.

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Examples

  • I feel like a lot of people can relate to this feeling and it’s such an isolating, like daunting, heavy weight that you carry.

  • The jobs are also highly isolating, a situation made worse by the pandemic, when people who had once worked together were spaced out to deter contagion.

  • This kind of thinking isn’t fun, and it won’t necessarily make the reality of the situation less frustrating or isolating, but it can help put risky decisions into a broader context.

  • Identifying patients with an infection, isolating them, and providing quality care, are the key methods needed to stop Ebola.

  • Nomani said her activism, which took root before the emergence of social media, has often been lonely and isolating.

  • She cites military tactics of isolating and compartmentalizing as a way to deal with the transition.

  • Getting my work done required isolating myself in the quietest corner of the library.

  • Were they to amend their posture, they would only be further isolating themselves.

  • I had succeeded without effort or trouble in almost isolating her from her former habits.

  • If you have been in love, you must have felt the need of isolating from this world the being in whom you would live wholly.

  • When we have succeeded in isolating a certain kind of bacterium in a given dish, we are said to have a pure culture.

  • Great Salt Lake has not been so effective in isolating the animals living on the islands as heretofore has been thought.

  • Why then are we astonished at this, since each man, isolating himself from the rest, consults only his own interest?