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单词 splendid isolation
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splendid isolation

Used to emphasize the isolation of a person or thing: the stone stands in splendid isolation near the moorland road...
  • We are here as a senior club in an area of splendid isolation in a sense.
  • We preferred to decline in splendid isolation rather than prosper in a mundane community of Continentals under the Treaty of Rome which set up the European Economic Community.
  • ‘It stands in splendid isolation,’ the tome says of an accomplishment deemed ‘the greatest single achievement in the long Rangers story’.
Late 19th century: first applied to the period of 1890–1907 when Britain pursued a policy of diplomatic and commercial non-involvement
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