insular

1 But, Keegan noted, the fact that Testard reads fiction in French and Spanish, as well as in English, made him able to spot authors whom other editors in Britain’s “monoglot, insular” publishing world might miss.

2 Now it was a publishing industry that was as insular as he suspected, politely showing him the door one more time.

3 Hierarchal and insular in the extreme, every track a kingdom unto itself, which may be why “Luck” brings to mind ornate court ritual.

4 “But I wasn’t really looking for anything, was just looking to meet people outside of the law school, which can be pretty insular of a community. I thought, ‘This was fun.

5 The British are often accused of being insular.

英国人常被指责为思想褊狭。

6 All were slogging around a tiny scene that had become dementedly insular: "We're influenced by everything from Genesis to Marillion," explained one musician, entirely without irony.

7 For starters, both plays begin with young men fantasizing about breaking away from the insular, landbound world where they’ve been living, and hitting the open water.

8 But within a few years, the group took on the feeling of an insular, hierarchical cult, with leaders overseeing even the most intimate details of the members’ lives.

9 It was one of those strange moments when the stodgy, humorless, official world was acknowledging an insular corner of the underground.

10 He reminds us that in a decade when we were convinced that we were becoming more European, more cosmopolitan, more globalised, we actually became more insular.

11 A third mother, from a rich enclave in the hills above, infiltrates their coffee klatch, bringing a certain measure of negativity, as well as some hard truths into their insular mom-bubble.

12 That changed in 1996, when he decided that the program had become, as he saw it, too insular.

13 Insular, or just broke?

是孤立，还是破产？

14 But a simpler moniker stuck: The Band, which seemed to suit the quintet's insular demeanor.

15 But there’s an insular quality to the work, and sometimes a smug in-jokiness.

16 “Togetherness” is an insular bildungsroman for grown-ups written by authors who understand that anything too self-serious can be stamped with that most dismissive of labels, “white people problems.”

17 Island cultures tend to be insular, which is why music developed there can feel so unique—it’s often conceived of and honed in relative isolation.

18 For a show that its creators have described as inspirational and feel-good, how will it handle some unsavory parts of the game and a culture that can be insular and sexist?

19 North Korea, by contrast, is insular, centralised and destitute.

相比之下, 朝鲜孤立 、 集权化而且贫穷.

20 They just felt derivative and insular, a self-referential grab bag of “cool” visual style — often involving bloody violence — in service to narratives that were either flimsy or just plain shallow.

1 保守

conservative guard blue right-wing hidebound unenterprising unprogressive hardshell horse-and-buggy keep stuffy backward-looking buttoned-down strait-laced reaction conservatism old-fashioned inertia middle-aged

2 岛的

island

3 岛国性

insularity

4 狭隘

narrow provincial trivial illiberal small-minded blinkered narrowness provincialism small-mindedness

5 岛屿

island I

6 褊狭的

local narrow provincial suburban intolerant small-town parochial confining single-track hidebound one-track cabined

7 无变化

flat uniform unchanged unaffected monotonous humdrum unconverted monotonic changeless uninflected unvarying unvaried monotone

8 孤独的

alone lonely lone desolate lonesome

9 岛

island isle insularity I. inch insula

10 孤立的

alone stray isolating out on a limb lone lonely detached solitary pocket isolated sporadic withdrawn standoff

11 狭隘的

narrow introverted illiberal provincial trivial small-minded blinkered

12 隔绝

private seclusion insulate sequester close seclude deracinate secluded insulation

13 岛民

islander on-islander islandman

14 有成见的

squint-eyed

15 隔绝的

private secluded

16 与世隔绝的

isolated hermetic cloistered sequestered enclosed secluded in splendid isolation

17 与世隔绝

cloister enclosed secluded cloistered sequestered in splendid isolation in a vacuum

18 胰岛

island islet

19 岛国的

island

20 脑岛

island

21 孤立

lone isolation isolate enisle lonely stray isolating detached solitary insulation standoff island insulate quarantine maroon pocket isolated sporadic withdrawn isle stand alone

22 保守的

blue stuffy conservative closed button-down backward-looking unprogressive verkrampte right-wing hidebound unenterprising hardshell horse-and-buggy buttoned-down strait-laced old-fashioned middle-aged

23 散开的

dispersed

24 散开

dispersed dispersion fall-off open extend spread deploy disperse unravel unwrap straggle ravel squander ted

25 褊狭

local narrow provincial suburban intolerant small-town parochial confining single-track hidebound one-track cabined insularity provincialism provinciality

26 无变化的

flat uniform unchanged unaffected monotonous humdrum unconverted monotonic changeless uninflected unvarying unvaried

27 偏狭

narrow provincial parochial provincialism suburban intolerant hidebound pettily intolerance bigotry pettiness parochialism philistinism parochiality local sectarian narrow-minded narrow-gauge one-track small-bore

28 故步自封

rest on your laurels

29 岛国根性

insularity insularism

30 偏狭的

narrow provincial parochial suburban intolerant hidebound local sectarian narrow-minded narrow-gauge one-track small-bore