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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• Your back may seize up.
  你的背部可能会转动困难。
• 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。
• If the lubrication system is not functioning properly, the working parts may seize up.
  在润滑系统作用失常时，运转部件可能卡住。
• 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。
• 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。