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  1. The thief froze when he heard the footsteps approaching.
    小偷听到走近的脚步声,吓得呆住了。
  2. We ate some of the fruits and froze the rest.
    我们吃了一些水果,把剩下的冷藏起来。
  3. Ann froze with terror as the door opened silently.
    门一声不响地开了,把安吓呆了。



Froze \Froze\,
imp. of {Freeze}.


Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. {Froze} (fr[=o]z); p. p. {Frozen}
(fr[=o]"z'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Freezing}.] [OE. fresen,
freosen, AS. fre['o]san; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G.
frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius
cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient,
cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushv[=a]
ice, prush to spirt. ? 18. Cf. {Frost}.]
1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid
to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be
hardened into ice or a like solid body.

Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's
thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] below zero.

2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer
loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood
freezes in the veins.

{To freeze up} (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor.
[Colloq.]

  1. After Iraq seized Kuwait, several governments, including those of the United States, England and France, froze Kuwaiti investments and assets in their countries to protect them from the Iraqis.
  2. Britain recalled its ambassador, expelled six Iraqi military cadets, froze official visits and canceled a trade mission in protest after Bazoft's execution.
  3. It also froze $115 billion in savings accounts and money market deposits for 18 months.
  4. As part of its effort to force Noriega to leave, the United States froze Panamanian government deposits in U.S. banks, barred payments to the Panamanian government and increased its military strength in the Canal Zone.
  5. The bomb squad soon arrived at the scene, froze the bag with liquid nitrogen and transported it to a nearby river bank for further investigation.
  6. Air New Zealand's entry into the Australian domestic market, as a second competitor alongside Ansett, would almost certainly have disrupted Qantas's domestic revenue flow. Australia 'froze' the memorandum unilaterally two weeks ago.
  7. Britain and France froze Kuwaiti assets to keep the country's new Iraqi-installed government from seizing them.
  8. Under a so-called Economic Solidarity Pact with labor and business, the president in February froze the minimum wage, prices for goods and services, and the peso-dollar currency exchange rate.
  9. The company last year froze salaries and transferred hundreds of employees from manufacturing to sales jobs.
  10. It says it will review the position in June. Trafalgar House Construction froze the pay of its 3,500 UK staff last October.
  11. The cold destroyed much of Florida's valuable citrus crop and froze an estimated 65 percent of Texas' oranges and grapefruit on the trees.
  12. An Amtrak passenger train carrying 300 people was stuck in Devils Lake, N.D., for three hours Saturday morning when the fuel in the engines froze, a Burlington-Northern Railroad spokesman said.
  13. Sanctions adopted by the European Economic Community on Saturday froze Iraqi assets and suspended the purchase of oil from the two Arab countries.
  14. In Washington, a falling tree killed a Bainbridge Island man in his backyard and a man apparently froze to death at a transient encampment underneath a highwy along Seattle's waterfront.
  15. It was the most extreme anti-inflation measure since another socialist government froze prices and wages ten years ago.
  16. But when it earlier froze the Chargit funds, the savings bank claimed that Chargit had been failing to remit funds to customers on a timely basis.
  17. He apparently had been following a deer when things went awry and he froze to death.
  18. The deep freeze taxed utilities, filled shelters for the homeless and gave some students a holiday when furnaces quit or buses froze. Schools were closed today in more than a dozen Kentucky counties because of snow-slickened roads.
  19. After the verdict U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson froze the men's assets.
  20. The Energy Department subsequently froze nearly $5 million in bonus payments to the operator of the Rocky Flats facility, Rockwell International Corp.
  21. The conflict with the car companies goes back to last year's anti-inflation Cruzado Plan, when then-Finance Minster Dilson Funaro froze prices below the car companies' real costs.
  22. The United States last fall briefly froze further liberalization of high technology transfers to China to protest alleged sales of Chinese Silkworm missiles to Iran.
  23. The Soviet Union said Monday it might negotiate with Lithuania if the Baltic republic froze its March 11 declaration of independence for two years and agreed to adhere to the Soviet constitution for achieving independence.
  24. Rainwater seeped in and froze.
  25. Some of the plant's sensitive equipment froze during a cold snap. Shareholders' funds, following a SFr300m boost from a revaluation of fixed assets and liquidation of hidden reserves, were SFr351m at the end of 1993, 14.5 per cent of total assets.
  26. No. Would all the people who lost their jobs because the U.S. froze Panamanian assest get their jobs back?
  27. The agreement froze the assets of five American companies _ Amerada Hess, Marathon Oil, W.R. Grace, Occidental Petroleum and Concoco Petroleum.
  28. Relations had started to cool as word circulated that Kidder might cooperate; they froze the day this newspaper reported that Kidder had staved off indictment by agreeing to cooperate.
  29. The station froze the last live shot of Dole and kept it on the screen while viewers also heard his voice.
  30. Attorney General Gamal Shouman ordered detention of 49 of its officers, their family members and the company's accountants and froze their assets on grounds their illegal operations jeopardized depositors' funds.
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