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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。