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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。