喜樂美語

這個拼法是2個不同的字· 2 words spelled “seize up”

  1. 1
    seize up (machine stops moving)（機器、引擎）卡死、突然停擺
  2. 2
    muscles seize up (go stiff)（肌肉、背）僵住、抽緊
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seize up (machine stops moving)

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muscles seize up (go stiff)

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

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seize upverb/ˈsiːz ˌʌp/

  • 1

    To stop functioning; to come to a halt.

    • Iceland's foreign currency market has seized up after the three largest banks collapsed.
    • In the 2004 film A Day Without a Mexican, Sergio Arau imagines, in mockumentary style, what would happen to California if its entire Mexican-immigrant population vanished. With so many housekeepers and farmworkers, teachers and gardeners, line cooks and police gone, the state seizes up.
  • 2

    To stiffen or become tight and difficult to move.

    • It was hard to write as my fingers had seized up with the cold weather.
    • I have had over six years to think about my future and it does not look good. I … can expect no cure or improvement in my condition as my muscles and joints seize up through lack of use.
  • 3

    To stop working suddenly, and become impossible to start again.

    • My car seized up this morning. So I had to catch the bus.

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