isolate [ˈaɪsəleɪt] v.(使)孤立,隔离,分离;分隔,区别看待(观点、问题等)
例句 Child development is relational, which is why, in one experiment, nine month-old babies who received a few hours of Mandarin instruction from a live human could isolate specific phonetic elements in the language while another group of babies who received the exact same instruction via video could not.【2018-7《大西洋月刊》】
儿童的成长与此相关,这就是为什么在一项实验中,那些 9 个月大
的宝宝从真人那里接受几个小时的普通话训练之后能够将这种语言
中的特定语音元素分隔开来,而另一组通过视频接受完全相同的训
练的宝宝无法做到这一点。
派生 isolation[ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃ(ə)n] n. 隔离,分离;孤独;孤立
isolated[ˈaɪsəˌleɪtɪd] adj.(建筑物、村庄等)孤零零的,偏僻的;(人)孤单的,孤独的;(行动、事件、例子等)单独的,个别的