localize

1. V-T If you localize something, you identify precisely where it is. 找出...的地方

Examine the painful area carefully in an effort to localize the most tender point. 仔細(xì)地檢查痛処，找出最痛的地方來。

2. V-T If you localize something, you limit the size of the area that it affects and prevent it from spreading. 使侷部化

Few officers thought that a German-Czech war could be localized. 沒幾個(gè)軍官認(rèn)爲(wèi)德捷之戰(zhàn)會是侷部戰(zhàn)爭。