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Protected from losing or gaining heat, electricity, or sound, usually by a special material wrapped around something - like an insulated jacket that keeps you warm, or insulated wires that keep electricity from leaking out and causing a shock. It can also describe a person or place that is protected or kept separate from a problem or difficulty, like 'insulated from the effects of the recession.'
隔熱／絕緣的；（比喻）受到保護、不受影響的
組成insulate (from Latin insula, island - the idea of making something like a separate 'island,' cut off) + -ed.
同家族的字
- insulatethe base verb
- insulationthe noun form, the material or process used
- isolatecomes from the same Latin root insula (island), meaning to separate something from others
- peninsulaalso shares insula - a piece of land 'almost an island'
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
insulatedadj
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Protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.
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Placed or set apart.
- an insulated house or column
- the special and insulated situation of the Jews
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Isolated or separated from other conducting materials, or sources of electricity.
- Early insulated wires were covered in silk rather than plastic.
- Speed by now was now down to 25 m.p.h., but that universal tool, the insulated screwdriver, with its business end gingerly applied to the relay coil, enabled us to keep going as far as Grantham, where a more permanent remedy could be effected.
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datedastronomynatural-sciencesSituated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the effect of their mutual attraction is undetectable.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。