Company towns seem to favour a more insular type of innovation as a result.

结果公司小镇似乎更倾向于内部创新。

This man says to me that my community would kill me, these insular communities.

个人对我说，我的社区会杀了我，些与世隔绝的社区。

Continental Celtic is extinct, whereas Insular  Celtic still exists.

大陆凯尔特人已经灭绝，而岛屿凯尔特人仍然存在。

We guess these are insular countries in terms of sex.

我们猜测些国家在性方面孤立的。

So it was just such an insular boys' club.

所以它样一个与世隔绝的男孩俱乐部。

It's very insular because you don't go through East Anglia, you just go to it.

它非常封闭，因为你不会穿过东盎格利亚，你只到达那里。

'I see no harm in your saying insular, ' smiled Arthur.

“我觉得你说孤立的话没有什么坏处， ” 亚瑟笑着说。

What does " insular" mean in this context?

在种情况，“孤立”什么意思？

The Celtic linguistic group has two main branches:   Continental and Insular.

凯尔特语族有两个主要分支：大陆语系和岛屿语系。

It felt like Europeans had just built an insular outpost in Africa—that's to say, it felt like what it was.

感觉像欧洲人刚刚在非洲建立了一个与世隔绝的前哨基地——说，感觉样。

Any insular area of the United States was considered officially, by the federal government, a non-integral part of the United States.

美国的任何岛屿地区都被联邦政府正式视为美国的非不可分割的一部分。

The persecuted young woman had but to beckon a finger and Soapy would be practically en route for his insular haven.

位受迫害的年轻女子只需挥动一根手指， 索比几乎正在前往他与世隔绝的避难所的路上。

The US had to come up with an entirely new classification of land just for these guano islands: the insular areas.

美国不得不为些鸟粪岛提出一个全新的土地分类：岛屿地区。

Years turned into decades, and Witt's insular life meant that he wasn't aware of how grumblings about the system had become more persistent.

几年变成了几十年，维特与世隔绝的生活意味着他没有意识到对个制度的抱怨已经变得更加持久。

It also simply helps you get outside of yourself, pulling you out of the insular cycle of your own negative thought patterns by connecting and interacting with others.

还能帮助你跳出自我，通过与他人的联系和互动，摆脱个人消极思想模式的孤立循环。

A certain style dignified its grime; heavy, clumsy, arrogant, purse-proud, but not cheap; insular but large; barely tolerant of an outside world, and absolutely self-confident.

某种风格使它的污垢显得高贵； 沉重，笨拙，傲慢，钱包骄傲，但不便宜； 与世隔绝但很大； 几乎不能容忍外面的世界， 而且绝对自信。

So even in a place that we think of as very culturally insular, right, even there, you've got a large-scale migration.

所以即使在一个我们认为在文化上非常孤立的地方，对，即使在那里，你会有大规模的迁移。

The distress of a breakup activates the insular cortex, a region that processes pain— both physical, like spraining your ankle, as well as social, like the feelings of rejection.

分手的痛苦会激活岛叶皮层，一个处理疼痛的区域——身体上的，比如扭伤脚踝，还有社交上的，比如被拒绝的感觉。

Nostalgia was also able to recruit a wide network of brain regions in prefrontal, frontal, cingulate, insular, parietal, occipital and subcortical brain regions that span nearly all of our cognitive faculties.

怀旧还能够在前额叶、 额叶、 扣带回、岛叶、 顶叶、 枕叶和皮层大脑区域招募广泛的大脑区域网络， 些区域几乎涵盖了我们所有的认知能力。

And so I think over time, the insular nature of the oil and gas companies meant that they were not necessarily as open to opportunities outside of the traditional core business.

因此，我认为随着时间的推移，石油和天然气公司的孤立性质意味着它们不一定对传统核心业务之外的机会持开放态度。