He said that given how interconnected the region is, Honduras can isolate, and hurt itself,in as he put it, some pretty dramatic ways.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

It's a way of breaking the code up into modules. Modules that makes sense on their own. Modules that we can reuse in multiple places. Modules that, if you like, Isolate components of the process.

能将代码分解为模块,模块能够独自运作,我们能在很多地方再利用这些模块,如果你喜欢的话，模块可以被看作是过程独立的组成部分。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In 13th century India, they knew how to isolate metallic zinc.

在13世纪的印度，我们知道了如何提取金属锌。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Researchers in Melbourne hope to isolate the most effective compounds for use in a potential vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

Airline industry and port authorities around Asia are monitoring arriving passengers, hoping to detect,and isolate, anyone infected with swine flu, which broke out in Mexico in recent weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Obama administration officials said they don't want to get involved in verbal sparring with North Korea but they did call its latest threats provocative and say Pyongyang stands only to further isolate itself from the world community if it follows through with them.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

"I think that the Americans want to improve their relations with Syria to weaken Iran and to further isolate it in the region, so I don't think the Americans need Syria as a mediator with Iran, because that would improve relations between Tehran and Damascus,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.18