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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - My joints seize up in the cold weather.
天气寒冷，我的关节都冻僵了。 - 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。 - 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。 - Your back may seize up.
你的背部可能会转动困难。