Isolation

(noun.) the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others.

(noun.) a country's withdrawal from international politics; 'he opposed a policy of American isolation'.

(noun.) a feeling of being disliked and alone.

(noun.) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it.

(noun.) a state of separation between persons or groups.

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• The counterpart of the isolation of mind from activities dealing with objects to accomplish ends is isolation of the subject matter to be learned. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The soft isolation of the falling day enveloped them: they seemed lifted into a finer air. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• To call them virtues in their isolation is like taking the skeleton for the living body. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Their isolation, and consequently their purely arbitrary going together, is canceled; a unified developing situation takes its place. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Thus we see her in a strange state of isolation. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The isolation of aims and values which we have been considering leads to opposition between them. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Our geographical isolation preserves us from any vivid sense of national contrast: our imaginations are not stirred by different civilizations. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The look suggested isolation, but it revealed something more. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Yet who does not feel its isolation in that brutal city? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• How perfect it was, how VERY perfect it was, this silvery isolation and interplay. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Alas, this isolation--this banishment from my kind! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• They experienced a violent revulsion towards that policy of isolation that had broken down in 1917. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Soon tiring of idleness and isolation he sent a cry from Macedonia to his old friend Milt Adams, who was in Boston, and whom he wished to rejoin if he could get work promptly in the East. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Governesses,' she observed, 'must ever be kept in a sort of isolation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They ignored the great possibilities of blended races and of special local isolations and variations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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