to 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。
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。
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。

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