If a person or animal is in quarantine, they are being kept separate from other people or animals for a set period of time, usually because they have or may have a disease.
例句
She was sent home to Oxford and put in quarantine...她被送回牛津的家中隔離起來。No mammals other than people may enter the country without lengthy quarantine.除人之外，所有的哺乳動物進入這個國家都必須經過長期隔離。
VERB
對…進行隔離檢疫
If people or animals are quarantined, they are stopped from having contact with other people or animals. If a place is quarantined, people and animals are prevented from entering or leaving it.
例句
Dogs have to be quarantined for six months before they'll let them in.狗要進行6個月的隔離檢疫之后才被允許進入。
英漢詞典釋義
n.
(人或動物生病之后被隔離的)檢疫期
The ship is still in rigorous quarantine.該船仍在接受嚴格的隔離檢疫。The health officials placed the ship’s crew in quarantine.衛生官員將該船的全體船員隔離, 進行檢疫。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease
2. isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease
Verb
1. place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons;
"My dog was quarantined before he could live in England"