• vt. 使隔離；使孤立；使絕緣
• n. [生物] 隔離種群
• vi. 隔離；孤立
• adj. 隔離的；孤立的

來自isle,島，引申詞義使成孤島，隔離，孤立，詞源同insulate.

isolate (v.)

by 1786, a new formation from isolated (q.v.).

The translation of this work is well performed, excepting that fault from which few translations are wholly exempt, and which is daily tending to corrupt our language, the adoption of French expressions. We have here evasion for escape, twice or more times repeated; brigands very frequently; we have the unnecessary and foolish word isolate; and, if we mistake not, paralize, which at least has crept in through a similar channel. Translators cannot be too careful on this point, as it is a temptation to which they are constantly exposed. ["The British Critic," April 1799]

As a noun from 1890, from earlier adjectival use (1819).

1. Political influence is being used to shape public opinion and isolate critics.

政治影響正被用來左右公眾輿論，使批評家們陷于孤立。

來自柯林斯例句

2. A chemist can isolate the oxygen from the hydrogen in water.

一個化學家能把水中的氧和氫分解.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

3. Do not isolate yourself from others.

不要把自己孤立起來.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. We should never isolate ourselves from the masses.

我們永遠不能脫離群眾.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

5. Their solution was to isolate specific clones of B cells and fuse them with cancer cells.

他們的解決方案是分離出特定的B細胞克隆，然后將它們和癌細胞結合。

來自柯林斯例句