Insular

(adj.) narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; 'little sympathy with parochial mentality'; 'insular attitudes toward foreigners' .

(adj.) suggestive of the isolated life of an island; 'an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist'- Leonard Michaels .

(adj.) relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; 'insular territories'; 'Hawaii's insular culture' .

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• So much of my early life has been passed abroad, that I have quite cast my insular skin in that respect. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The continental female is quite a different being to the insular female of the same age and class: I never saw such eyes and brows in England. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Astounding insular audacity! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Oh, in the old days I was rather a celebrity in the islands,—a kind of insular Lord Byron,—and of course had my followers. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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