insularity

1. The principles of his management style are simple: he values merit over rank, excellence over mediocrity, competition over insularity, and accountability over promises.
   其管理风格的原则其实非常简单：在他眼里，功绩胜过头衔，杰出胜过平庸，竞争胜过封闭，责任胜过承诺。
2. So accustomed were they to success that they allowed the car business to become secondary to the bureaucracy and insularity that would bring the company down in 2009.
   他们对成功习以为常，因此让汽车业务变成官僚机构和固步自封状态的附庸，这最终导致公司在2009年一蹶不振。
3. It was the old tragedy of insularity trying to serve as mentor to the universal.
   这是一个古老的悲剧：目光短浅者偏要充当胸襟辽阔者的导师。
4. Yet the United States is starting to overcome the linguistic insularity responsible for its text signs.
   不过，美国正开始试图改变这种狭隘的语言观念。
5. And, in a sign that the new boss wants to go further in ending insularity, people who have worked with him say he has an insatiable interest in the start-ups and new ideas bubbling up elsewhere in the tech industry.
   而且有迹象显示，这位新老板想要进一步结束僵化局面&曾与他共过事的人说，纳德拉对科技行业冒出的初创企业和新创意都有浓厚兴趣。
6. Recruiters are looking for evidence in job applications that graduates can overcome such institutional insularity.
   招聘公司在求职申请中寻找证据，证明毕业生能够克服这些制度方面的狭隘。
7. America has always been deeply individualistic, and individualism has presumed the insularity and autonomy of persons and, thus, a natural rivalry among them.
   美国一直带有浓厚的个人主义意识，个人主义曾经假定个人与世隔绝而意识自主，所以彼此之间就有自然而然的对立。
8. Their approaches to last Saturday night's100 m races were similar only in this insularity.
   他们上周六晚100米赛跑的备战策略大体相同。
9. In 2001, disenchanted with the insularity of academia, he accepted an executive job at the Marshall Institute, a conservative environmental think-tank in Washington.
   2001年，他对僵化刻板的学术界不再抱有任何幻想，于是接受了马歇尔学会（MarshallInstitute）的一份主管工作。该学会是一个位于华盛顿的保守派环保智库。
10. Due to their ethnic consciousness and insularity, about half of the Japanese people do not want to live together with refugees.
    日本国内大约半数国民不愿意接收移民与难民，这反映了日本作为岛国的民族特征。
11. The close environment of karst is the necessary condition to keep the insularity of the culture;
    喀斯特环境的封闭性是保留文化孤岛性的必然条件；
12. These regional rankings might also break down the insularity that has long been a mark of Latin American academia.
    诸如此类的大学地区排名也或许消除了对于拉美地区学术研究的偏狭。
13. Cynicism and insularity had long been major barriers to my lasting peace.
    长期以来，愤世嫉俗和偏狭保守是我的内心无法得到持久安宁的主要障碍。
14. Britain always observed balance of power policy towards Europe in neoteric history, which had peculiar cultural tradition, such as conservative insularity psychology, deep empire complex and peculiar nation mentality.
    近代英国对欧洲政策的主要倾向是维持均势，这种均势外交有其独特的历史文化渊源，如保守的岛国心态、深入骨髓的帝国情结、以及独特的民族心理。
15. The culture island have mutual relationship not only with the karst nature environment but also with the karst culture environment. The system of insularity culture has been composed of material culture and behavior culture and energy culture, and they have conformity relationship also.
    孤岛文化不仅与喀斯特自然地理环境存在相互的影响关系，也与喀斯特社会文化环境发生相互整合关系，孤岛文化内部的物质文化、行为文化、精神文化也存在相互的整合关系。
16. And the only way to change the insularity of American conflicts law is to strengthen the comparative study.
    只有加强比较研究，才能从根本上改变美国冲突法的这种岛国心态。

noun

1. the state of being isolated or detached
   1. the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel

   Synonym:    insulationinsularismdetachment