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| 1 | I/T if water freezes or something freezes it , it gets very cold and changes into ice （使）结冰 |
| The lake freezes in winter. 冬天湖水会结冰。 |
| frozen solid (=completely hard) The water in the cat’ s bowl was frozen solid. 冻硬的 |
| | 1a | if a liquid freezes or something freezes it , it becomes solid because it has reached a low temperature （使）（液体）凝固 | | Liquid nitrogen freezes at minus 209 degrees Celsius. 液态氮在零下209摄氏度凝固。 | |
| | 1b | if a substance freezes or something freezes it , it becomes very cold and hard （使）变得极冷；（使）冻硬 | | The soil was frozen. 泥土被冻硬了。 | |
| | 1c | if a pipe freezes or the weather freezes it , the water inside it becomes ice （使）（管道）被冰堵塞，结冰 | |
| | 1d | if something such as a lock or a machine freezes or something freezes it , it gets stuck and cannot move （使）（锁或机器等）冻结，凝住 | | The blanket had frozen to the windscreen. 毯子冻在挡风玻璃上了。 | |
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| 2 | T to preserve food or drink by making it extremely cold in a freezer （用冰箱）冷冻（食品） |
| I’ ll freeze the other pack of sausages. 我要把另一包香肠冷冻起来。 |
| | 2a | I if food freezes, it is preserved in this way （食品）冷冻 | | Strawberries don’ t freeze very well. 草莓不太适于冷冻。 | |
| | 2b | T if you freeze a human body or a part of the body , you preserve it by making it extremely cold 冷冻（人的尸体或器官） | | The embryos are frozen at minus 20 degrees and stored. 胚胎用零下20度的温度冷冻储存。 | |
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| 3 | I to feel extremely cold 感到极冷；寒冷彻骨 |
| You’ ll freeze if you go out in that thin coat. 你穿那么薄的大衣出去会冻坏的。 |
| freeze to death (=die from being very cold) The lambs looked as if they had frozen to death in the snow. 冻死 |
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| 4 | I if it freezes, the temperature of the air goes down to 0 degrees Celsius or below （气温）降到零摄氏度以下 |
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| 5 | I to stop moving and keep completely still 呆住；发愣；一动不动 |
| Freeze! Don’ t move a muscle! 不准动！呆在那里别动！ |
| Kate froze in horror when she saw all the blood. 凯特看到那滩血时吓呆了。 |
| frozen to the spot (=unable to move because you are frightened or shocked) I stood frozen to the spot, unable to believe my eyes. （恐惧或震惊得）呆住的，一动不动的 |
| | 5a | I to stop moving or making progress 停顿；凝固 | | Their wine glasses frozen in mid-air, they all stared at me. 他们把酒杯停在半空中，目不转睛地看着我。 | | It seemed as though time had frozen. 时间仿佛凝固了。 | |
| | 5b | I/T if a computer screen freezes or something freezes it , the images on it become completely still and you cannot move them because there is something wrong with the computer （使）（电脑画面）定格；（使）死机 | |
| | 5c | T to stop a video or film from moving forward , especially so you can look closely at one particular picture 使（录像或电影画面）定格 | |
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| 6 | T to say officially that the rate or level of something must stay the same and not increase 冻结（工资、物价等）；宣布…维持不动（或不准增加） |
| Wages were frozen until the end of December. 工资被冻结到12月底。 |
| We are freezing prices at 2001 levels. 我们将价格维持在2001年的水平不变。 |
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| 7 | T to legally stop a supply of money from being available to someone 冻结（资金） |
| The courts have frozen her bank account. 法庭冻结了她的银行账户。 |
| freeze sb’ s assets (=stop someone selling their property to make money) The company’ s assets could be frozen by the banks. 冻结某人的资产 |
| PHRASAL VERBS |
| - | ˌfreeze ˈout |
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| | to prevent someone from taking part in something 不让（某人）参加；逐出 | He was frozen out of official life. 他被逐出了官场。 | |
| - | ˌfreeze ˈover |
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| | to become covered with a layer of ice 被冰覆盖；冰封 |
| - | ˌfreeze ˈup |
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| 1 | if something freezes up it becomes so cold that it does not work or cannot move 被冻结；被封冻 | All the locks had frozen up. 锁全都被冻住了。 | |
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| 2 | to be unable to think of anything to say , especially because you are nervous （尤指因紧张而）呆住，发愣 |
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