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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Your back may seize up.
你的背部可能会转动困难。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - But there still appears to be room for values to rise, provided global credit markets do not seize up.
而且，只要信用市场不收紧，日本的房地产看起来还有不少上升空间。