insularity

despite the culture's insularity and remoteness from us, the japanese often dress and style themselves in a way that clearly states their social membership in categories of rocker, matron, intellectual, etc., and these identities can be easily "read" by a tourist from the united states.

尽管日本是个距我们很远的岛国，但那里人的着装服饰清楚表达出他们的社会归属：摇滚人、主妇、文化人，等等。美国旅游者可以轻易认出这些人的身份。

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。

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。