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

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  1. 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 body seizes 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。
  2. PHRASAL VERB (发动机等)停止运转，发生故障
    If something such as an engine seizes 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。
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  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。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. 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。
  6. 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。
  7. 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。
  8. 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。
  9. 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。
  10. 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。
  11. 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。
  12. 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。
  13. 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。
  14. My joints seize up in the cold weather.
    天气寒冷，我的关节都冻僵了。
  15. 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。
  16. 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。
  17. 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。
  18. 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。
  19. I go faster and the engines seize up.
    一旦加速，引擎就会失灵的。
  20. 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。
  21. 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。
  22. 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。
  23. 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。
  24. 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。
  25. 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。
  26. 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。
  27. 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。
  28. 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。
  29. 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。
  30. Your back may seize up.
    你的背部可能会转动困难。
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