1. 使孤立;使脫離(朋友、支持者)
    To isolate a person or organization means to cause them to lose their friends or supporters.

    e.g. This policy could isolate the country from the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council...
           這一政策可能會(huì)使該國(guó)孤立于聯(lián)合國(guó)安全理事會(huì)其他常任理事國(guó)之外。
    e.g. 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(píng)家們陷于孤立。

2. 使隔離;使與世隔絕
    If you isolate yourself, or if something isolates you, you become physically or socially separated from other people.

    e.g. When he was thinking out a problem Tweed's habit was never to isolate himself in his room...
           思考問題的時(shí)候,特威德從來沒有把自己關(guān)在房間里的習(xí)慣。
    e.g. His radicalism and refusal to compromise isolated him...
           他的激進(jìn)主義與拒絕妥協(xié)使他受到孤立。

3. 單獨(dú)考慮;區(qū)別看待
    If you isolate something such as an idea or a problem, you separate it from others that it is connected with, so that you can concentrate on it or consider it on its own.

    e.g. Our anxieties can also be controlled by isolating thoughts, feelings and memories...
           我們也可以通過將一些想法、感情與記憶分開考慮以控制焦慮情緒。
    e.g. ...attempts to isolate a single factor as the cause of the decline of Britain...
           試圖分離出一種因素作為英國(guó)衰退的原因

4. 使離析;分離
    To isolate a substance means to obtain it by separating it from other substances using scientific processes.

isolate的解釋

    e.g. We can use genetic engineering techniques to isolate the gene that is responsible...
           我們可以使用基因工程技術(shù)把相關(guān)基因分離出來。
    e.g. Researchers have isolated a new protein from the seeds of poppies.
           研究人員已經(jīng)從罌粟種子里分離出一種新的蛋白質(zhì)。

5. 隔離(病人、生病動(dòng)物)
    To isolate a sick person or animal means to keep them apart from other people or animals, so that their illness does not spread.

    e.g. Patients will be isolated from other people for between three days and one month after treatment...
           治療結(jié)束后,病人將與其他人隔離3天到1個(gè)月的時(shí)間。
    e.g. You don't have to isolate them from the community.
           你沒必要把他們與社區(qū)隔離。