英语释义

1. to stop working because the moving parts can no longer move
The engine/brakes suddenly seized up. —sometimes used figuratively
Her brain seized up when she tried to answer the question.

片语

get pick up seize执持

to seize up运转不畅

It jumped up to seize跳起来把它抓住

lock锁；车锁；（机器部件等的）锁定；前轮转向角度；船闸；一缕头发；（并列争球的）第二排前锋；（对某物的）完全控制；（摔跤及武术用语）抱，夹；（交通） 堵塞；完全转向；枪栓；毛撮

surround and seize round up从四下里包围搜捕

stop停止；堵塞；断绝

英汉例句

• Your engine will seize up if you do not put some more oil in.

  你再不加些润滑油，发动机就要卡住了。

• In 1998 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。

• My joints seize up in the cold weather.

  天气寒冷，我的关节都冻僵了。

• The downturn has temporarily eased the traffic on Britain「s clogged roads, but they will seize up again as the recovery gathers pace (see article).

  经济衰退暂时缓解了英国公路交通堵塞情况，但随着经济复苏，交通将还会运转不畅（见文章）。

• He would seize up on any excuse to justify himself.

  他会利用任何借口为自己辩解。

• 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。

• When they start to seize up a lot of non-linear effects-processes in which small causes have disproportionate effects-come into play, making it much harder to see what is going to happen next.

  当气流开始运转不畅时，很多非线性效应——在这些效应过程中，细微因素能产生不相称的影响- - -发挥作用，进而更难以预测接下来会发生何事。

• It may seize up and spatter and generally be disagreeable.

  糖浆会结块并且飞溅起来，这通常让人恼火。

• Even cash-rich banks will hoard their money if they fear that the interbank market will seize up and cut them off from sources of future supply.

  即使是有很多现金的银行也是守着那些钱，如果他们担心银行间市场会停顿，并切断今后的向他们提供款项。

• Anxiety about the war has been declining since August 2008, according to Rasmussen, when America「s financial system began to seize up and the severity of the recession became clear.

  据拉斯姆森的研究表明，自从2008年8月份以来，当美国金融体系运转不畅，经济衰退的严重性开始明显起来，对于战争的忧虑一直在降低。

• If you fail to oil the engine regularly, it could seize up without warning.

  如果你不按时给发动机上油，它就会突然失灵。

• By raising interest rates into the teeth of the storm last month, Frankfurt has made it that much more likely that parts of Europe」s credit system will seize up as defaults snowball next year.

  通过上个月提高利率入风暴的牙，法兰克福做了它更多可能欧洲的信用制度的部分将占领和默认雪球明年。

• If you fail to oil the engine regularly, it would seize up without warning.

  如果你不定期给发动机注油，它不定那天就会突然卡住。

• Climate change will shift the patterns of circulation in some ways, but there is no strong reason to believe that it will lead them to seize up more often.

  在某种程度上，气候在改变这种循环模式，但没有强有力的证据来证明这将致使他们抓住了更大的利润。