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isolation

/ahy-suh-ley-shuhn, is-uh-/US // ˌaɪ səˈleɪ ʃən, ˌɪs ə- //UK // (ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən) //

隔离,孤立,孤立性,孤立的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of isolating.
    • : the state of being isolated.
    • : the complete separation from others of a person suffering from contagious or infectious disease; quarantine.
    • : the separation of a nation from other nations by isolationism.
    • : Psychoanalysis. a process whereby an idea or memory is divested of its emotional component.
    • : Sociology. social isolation.

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Examples

  • Perhaps never more than now, in this time of covid-19, do we crave isolation yet chafe at being cloistered in our homes.

  • A babysitter took care of Sam in the family home while Castelo was in isolation, and the father and son used walkie-talkies to communicate.

  • Whenever the mood strikes, I boil or fry them up and lessen my sense of isolation for a bit.

  • As with other solutions to isolation—bus fare to visit a park, tickets to a museum—internet connections also require financial resources that many older adults don’t have.

  • I wanted a more autism-friendly world, but this version, defined by helplessness and isolation, has scarred me as deeply as it has my peers.

  • Isolation has not worked,” said Obama from the White House.

  • Now that they had the isolation chamber, it was up to Phoenix to find a plane to carry it.

  • He was one of six children who had been in the Ebola isolation center that had been overrun.

  • Suspicion of exposure to Ebola, for example, is sufficient to justify mandatory isolation.

  • A former Ebola patient calls the forcible isolation of returning health-care workers from West Africa a ‘police state approach.’

  • The major-general kept him well informed of every movement of the enemy, and pointed out the dangerous isolation of Davout.

  • He experienced a feeling of such utter isolation that he almost started when Isabel spoke.

  • This practical isolation disgusted the several chiefs, who therefore agreed to open the campaign against the invaders.

  • And she was fully alive to the romantic conditions, the wild night, the isolation, the vibrating atmosphere.

  • Her long lashes brushed her cheek; she drew a kind of isolation from the way her manner underlined the office.