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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - My joints seize up in the cold weather.
天气寒冷,我的关节都冻僵了。 - I go faster and the engines seize up.
一旦加速,引擎就会失灵的。