Isolate

(verb.) place or set apart; 'They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates'.

(verb.) obtain in pure form; 'The chemist managed to isolate the compound'.

(verb.) separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them.

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• Davy studied later the compounds of fluorine, and though un able to isolate the element, conjectured its likeness to chlorine. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Object lessons tended to isolate the mere sense-activity and make it an end in itself. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• His occupation tended to isolate him, and isolated he was mostly seen to be. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• To yield to this temptation means to narrow and isolate the thought of the self--to treat it as complete. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There was something positively exasperating in Bertha's attitude of isolated defiance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Then they could get into no touch with the isolated little sculptor. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• This desecration was not the act of some isolated fanatic; it was the official act of the church. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Memphis therefore was practically isolated from the balance of the command. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The cheapness of calcium carbide has made it possible for the isolated farmhouse to discard oil lamps and to have a private gas system. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But the perfect silence was most terrifying, isolating the soul, surrounding the heart with frozen air. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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