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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - My joints seize up in the cold weather.
天气寒冷，我的关节都冻僵了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。