seize up

基本解释

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。
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。
By selling these, banks have brokered insurance contracts to the new holders of risk that in good times produce steady streams of income, but could require huge payouts if markets ever seize up.
通过出售这种产品，银行为那些新的风险持有者促成了保险合约，这在市场状况好的时候可以产生稳定的收益，但一旦市场失灵，便可能要求巨额的支出。

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.
ECONOMIST: Securitisation
Reassuringly, the government has acted quickly to stop liquidity from drying up as credit markets seize up elsewhere.
ECONOMIST: Wall Street's financial troubles hit Hong Kong

If a part of your body seizes up, it suddenly stops working, because you have strained it or because you are getting old.
If something such as an engine seizes up, it stops working, because it has not been properly cared for.