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seize up

英 [siːz ʌp]

美 [siːz ʌp]

(身体某部分因紧张或上了年纪而)发僵,无法动弹; (发动机等)停止运转,发生故障

柯林斯词典

  • PHRASAL VERB (身体某部分因紧张或上了年纪而)发僵,无法动弹
    If a part of your bodyseizes up, it suddenly stops working, because you have strained it or because you are getting old.
    1. After two days' exertions, it's the arms and hands that seize up, not the legs...
      两天的辛苦劳累过后,发僵的是胳膊和双手,腿倒没事。
    2. We are all born flexible but as we grow older, we tend to seize up a little.
      我们刚生下来时身体都很灵活,但随着年龄的增长,手脚会变得有些僵硬。
  • PHRASAL VERB (发动机等)停止运转,发生故障
    If something such as an engineseizes up, it stops working, because it has not been properly cared for.
    1. She put diesel fuel, instead of petrol, into the tank causing the motor to seize up.
      她往油箱里加了些柴油而不是汽油,致使发动机发生故障。

双语例句

  • The story is the same in almost every developed country: the bursting of the real estate bubble has caused property values to plummet, credit markets to seize up, and deal-flow to grind to a halt.
    几乎每个发达国家的情形都一样:房地产泡沫破裂,导致房产价值暴跌、信贷市场失灵以及交易日趋枯竭。
  • Its problem is not a lack of resources, but the political unwillingness of Member States to finance each other when markets seize up.
    它的问题不是缺乏资金,而是在市场失灵时各成员国缺乏互相融资的政治意愿。
  • It was their sudden withdrawal that caused the market in asset backed commercial paper ( ABCP) to seize up.
    正是由于短期债券的突然撤出才导致了资产支持商业票据的失灵。
  • Perhaps you could engage a taxi driver in a minute of conversation before you seize up.
    或许你可以与出租车司机聊上1分钟,然后就张口结舌了。
  • The Treasury will stand ready to buy bonds issued by biggish firms should markets seize up.
    如果市场抓住该机会的话,财政部将会准备好去购买大企业发售的债券。
  • In1998 there was the Russian default crisis and then there was some seize up of that maybe resembles what is happening now.
    998年,俄罗斯拖欠债务危机爆发,那时有一些失灵,那个状况有些像现在发生的状况。
  • My joints seize up in the cold weather.
    天气寒冷,我的关节都冻僵了。
  • Still, the fad machine is unlikely to seize up any time soon, and eternal vigilance is required to monitor its output.
    不过,制造时尚的机器任何时候都不太可能很快失灵,我们需要对它的产物永远保持警惕。
  • She put diesel fuel, instead of petrol, into the tank causing the motor to seize up.
    她往油箱里加了些柴油而不是汽油,致使发动机发生故障。
  • However, the counterparty problem poses a real risk that the cogs of the system could start to seize up again in the coming days.
    然而,对手问题形成了真正的风险,未来数日,金融体系的齿轮可能再次被卡住。