美 [siːz ʌp]
停止工作：因为移动部件无法再移动而停止工作。
思维停滞：在回答问题时，大脑突然停止思考。
seize up // [ seizing seized seizes ]
动词词组 If a part of your body seizes up, it suddenly stops working, because you have strained it or because you are getting old. (人体某部位) 发僵
After two days' exertions, it's the arms and hands that seize up, not the legs.
两天的劳累之后，突然发僵的是胳膊和手，并不是双腿。
动词词组 If something such as an engine seizes up, it stops working, because it has not been properly cared for. (机器) 失灵
She put diesel fuel, instead of petrol, into the tank causing the motor to seize up.
她把柴油代替汽油灌入油箱，造成发动机失灵。
中止(seize up), 此释义来源于网络辞典。
... seize on 利用 seize up (机器等)卡住，停顿 seldom ad. 很少 ...
She put diesel fuel, instead of petrol, into the tank causing the motor to seize up.
她把柴油代替汽油灌入油箱，造成发动机失灵。
After two days' exertions, it's the arms and hands that seize up, not the legs.
两天的劳累之后，突然发僵的是胳膊和手，并不是双腿。
In 1998, there was the Russian default crisis and then there was some seize up of that maybe resembles what is happening now.
1998年，俄罗斯发生了债务违约危机，然后出现了一些停顿，可能与现在的情况类似。
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。
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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。
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Georgia introduced assignee liability, only to back-pedal after the state's subprime market started to seize up.
Reassuringly, the government has acted quickly to stop liquidity from drying up as credit markets seize up elsewhere.
Every time another country hits the wall, auto sales there and in countries nearby tend to seize up.
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