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.- 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。 - 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。
- After two days' exertions, it's the arms and hands that seize up, not the legs...
- 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.- 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。
- She put diesel fuel, instead of petrol, into the tank causing the motor to seize up.
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。