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
- Weapons will jam and misfire, cannons will seize up and explode as the field of conflict becomes strewn with the bodies of wounded and dying men, lacerated and dismembered by pike, bayonet and shot.
武器将拥挤成肉搏战，以致难以开火，加农炮将失灵和爆炸，此时战场冲突拖曳着受伤者和垂死者的身躯，已被长枪、刺刀、子弹所划破和肢解。 - 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。 - 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。 - What they're really doing is just we're facing this seize up of our financial system so we have banks that we've just seen the failure of Bear Stearns which is actually a broker-dealer.
他们真正在做的只是，我们正处于金融体系失灵的阶段，所以我们有这种银行，我们刚刚目睹了经纪自营商，贝尔斯登的失败。 - The Chinese leadership is scared to death about the consequences if the domestic credit markets were to seize up as they have in other places, according to people familiar with the debate.
据一位知情人士表示，假如中国信贷市场象其它地方那样冻结，中国领导层对由此产生的后果是会吓坏的。 - Without a credit boom, the bursting of the bubble does not cause the financial system to seize up and so does much less damage.
没有信贷繁荣，泡沫破裂就不会造成金融体系失灵，造成的危害也就会小得多。 - If the banking system collapses, the whole economy could seize up because of a lack of credit.
如果银行系统崩溃，那么整个经济便会因缺少信贷而停滞。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。