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
- But if depositors all demanded their cash at once, the banking system would fail and the economy seize up overnight.
但如果所有储户同时提取现金，银行体系就会崩溃，经济也将在一夜之间停止运转。 - My joints seize up in the cold weather.
天气寒冷，我的关节都冻僵了。 - 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。 - And yet it happens that the machinery jams, the gears seize up.
然而，所发生的这一切，让司法机器发生了故障，司法的齿轮卡住了。 - The important lesson is that bank regulators cannot fully or accurately forecast whether, for example, subprime mortgages will turn toxic, or a particular tranche of a collateralised debt obligation will default, or even if the financial system will seize up.
重要的教训是银行监管机构无法全面准确的进行预测，例如，次债是否会成为有毒资产，或某一笔特定的担保债务凭证是否违约，甚或某一金融体系是否会失灵。 - The moves signal that although bankers view the internationalisation of the Chinese currency as a big opportunity, they see a risk that the small but fast-growing offshore renminbi market could seize up.
这些举动显示，尽管银行家们把人民币国际化视为一个重大机遇，但他们也看到了一个风险：即规模较小、但增长迅速的离岸人民币市场有可能运转不畅。 - The engineers, being a conservative bunch, thought that after a few thousand steps the motor would seize up.
那些工程师们是一伙保守人士，认为移动几千步以后电机就会失灵。 - Your engine will seize up if you don't put some more oil in.
你再不加些润滑油，发动机就要卡住了。 - As a result investment managers fear that bond markets could seize up if falling prices or a financial crisis prompt investors to pull their money out of bond funds.
投资经理人担心，这导致的结果是，在价格下跌或金融危机促使投资者将资金撤出债券基金时，债券市场会出现失灵。 - After a couple of hours of working on the figures his brain started to seize up.
处理数据几小时后他的脑子开始发蒙了。