insular
insular 英 [ˈɪnsjələ(r)] 美 [ˈɪnsələr]
adj. 孤立的；与世隔绝的；海岛的；岛民的
- Insular means "having a narrow view of the world," like insular people who never leave their small town, which enables them to believe that every place in the world is the same and the people are all just like them.
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- adj. 孤立的；与世隔绝的；海岛的；岛民的
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1. It was very insular, a walled garden.
它很孤立，像一座有围墙的花园。
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2. Conservatives will not be able to understand the elusive nature of Obamaism and counter its formidable appeal until they remove the impediment of their own insular, rigid ideology.
在消除自身孤立、死板的意识形态之前，保守主义者们无法理解奥巴马主义的逃避本质，也无法反击他那令人畏惧的诉求。
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3. The tsunami brought India’s insular fishing community in touch with the outside world for the first time.
海啸使得印度的这个与世隔绝的渔村首次与外界取得联络。
- insular (adj.) 1610s, "of or pertaining to an island," from Late Latin insularis "of or belonging to an island," from Latin insula "island" (see isle). Metaphoric sense "narrow, prejudiced" is from 1775, from notion of being isolated and cut off from intercourse with other nations or people (an image that naturally suggested itself in Great Britain). The earlier adjective in the literal sense was insulan (mid-15c.), from Latin insulanus.
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