喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold it: lifting one thing out and setting it down where nothing else touches it. Everything around it is cleared away — the other people, the other causes, the other cells — so that what is left stands alone. Sometimes that is done to protect, sometimes to study, sometimes it just happens to someone.

可以想成把一樣東西單獨提出來，放在四周都碰不到它的地方：其他人、其他原因、其他細胞都被移開，剩下的那一個就自己站在那…更多收起可以想成把一樣東西單獨提出來，放在四周都碰不到它的地方：其他人、其他原因、其他細胞都被移開，剩下的那一個就自己站在那裡。有時候這樣做是為了保護，有時候是為了研究，有時候則是一個人不知不覺變成那樣。

From the picture

單獨拿出來看

同樣是把一個東西移出來，但目的變成看清楚它：其他因素先擱在旁邊，才知道問題出在哪一個。

consider on its own · verb · B2

to look at one idea, problem, or cause on its own, away from the other things it is joined to.

單獨考慮；抽出來看

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separate, keep apart · verb · B1

to keep one person, group, or thing apart from the others around it.

隔開；使孤立

原始詞典資料9 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。

isolateverb/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt/

  • 1

    To set apart or cut off from others.

    • By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items.
    • Iran could not be happier. The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel’s colonialism rather than Iran’s nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.
  • 2

    To place in quarantine or isolation.

  • 3

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.

    • To isolate the petroline the condensed oil is distilled again until fifty per cent. of oil has been obtained, and what is left in the still is petroline.
  • 4

    To insulate, or make free of external influence.

    • One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
  • 5

    biologymicrobiologynatural-sciencesTo separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.

  • 6

    To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.

  • 7

    To self-isolate.

isolatenoun/ˈaɪ.sə.lət/

  • 1

    Something that has been isolated.

    • We used electropherotypes in order to differentiate the original parental strains or isolates from the finally tumor cell-adapted isolates.

isolateadj

  • 1

    literaryisolated.

    • He said in his heart, the day his beard was shaven he was beaten, lost. He identified it with his isolate manhood.
    • Its snaky acid kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.

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。