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
- 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。 - Its problem is not a lack of resources, but the political unwillingness of Member States to finance each other when markets seize up.
它的问题不是缺乏资金，而是在市场失灵时各成员国缺乏互相融资的政治意愿。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - If you fail to oil the engine regularly, it could seize up without warning.
如果你不定期给机器加油，它随时可能停止运转。 - Still, the fad machine is unlikely to seize up any time soon, and eternal vigilance is required to monitor its output.
不过，制造时尚的机器任何时候都不太可能很快失灵，我们需要对它的产物永远保持警惕。 - 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 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。 - 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。