Insulate

insulate







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【物】使絕緣,使隔熱,使隔音



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–verb (used with object)

1. to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, 

or 

leakage of heat, electricity, or sound: to insulate an [electric] wire with a rubber sheath; to insulate a coat with [down]. 

2. to place in an isolated situation or condition; segregate. 





 　

Yet those vacillations are something to see. 



Unlike many child actors who’ve made the successful [transition] to grown-up roles, DiCaprio hasn’t evolved in predictable ways—there are no clear [lines] of demarcation. His boys were unusually centered, his adults unusually boyish. 



His wide face still carries some insulating baby-fat, like Elvis Presley’s and Bill Clinton’s (before the latest weight loss), and Mendes uses that insulation against him, sometimes cruelly: What was self-assured and [spring]-heeled in Titanic now looks dodgy. 





seclude (v.)

cf. recluse (a. n.)

deracinate

insulate

to insulate an [electric] wire with a rubber sheath. 

to insulate a coat with [down]. 



hermit

hermetic

within a hermetically [sealed] world where everyone shares the same values and expectations

Avert