Water may freeze in the winter.
水在冬天会结冰。
We freeze his account.
我们冻结了他的账户。
His hands will freeze doing this.
做这个他的手会冻僵的。
The lake
froze over during the winter, so we could skate on it.
湖在冬天结冰了，所以我们可以在上面滑冰。
The flowers in the garden
froze solid after the sudden frost.
花园里的花在突然的霜冻后都冻僵了。
The refrigerator
froze all our food, so we had to buy more groceries.
冰箱把所有的食物都冻住了，所以我们得再买些食品。
The children begged their parents not to freeze them in time, they wanted to grow up.
孩子们央求父母不要让他们停滞在那个时刻，他们想长大。
The computer
froze when I tried to open that large file.
我试图打开那个大文件时，电脑卡住了。
She
froze in fear when she saw the snake slithering towards her.
她看到蛇向她爬过来时吓得僵住了。
The electricity was cut off due to a freeze, so we had to use candles for light.
因为停电，电力被冻结了，我们只能用蜡烛照明。
The car engine
froze up due to extreme cold, so we had to call for roadside assistance.
汽车引擎因极寒而冻结，我们不得不请求道路救援。
The painter's fingers
froze while he was working outside on a cold winter day.
画家在寒冷的冬日户外作画时手指冻僵了。
The government
froze prices to help struggling families cope with inflation.
政府冻结了物价以帮助困难家庭应对通货膨胀。
Speaking on the sidelines of the annual session of Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Yang Zhigang, chief technology officer for R&D at COMAC, said the company will soon freeze the aircraft design, which means no further changes would be made afterward, including the actual shape, size, structural materials, systems and key system suppliers.
中国商飞研发部门首席技术官杨志刚在上海市政协十三届五次会议期间透露，公司很快将冻结飞机设计，这意味着包括实际形状、尺寸、结构材料、系统及关键系统供应商等此后都不会再有变化。
Boeing, which builds the 737 south of Seattle, said it will not lay off any employees during the production freeze, though the move could have repercussions across its global supply chain and the US economy.
But if it stays on top of the mountains, it would freeze and become a glacier.
PCMs release heat when they freeze, and absorb heat when they melt.
She pointed out that one reason behind the projected lower ranking of the industry in China was the country's nine-month licensing freeze on new games.
The country's licensing freeze lasted nine months till December, contributing to a 15.4 percent year-on-year growth in the mobile games industry last year, compared to the 41.7 percent year-on-year increase in 2017, statistics from Gamma Data showed.
Liu Wei, an analyst from market research company iResearch, said the approval freeze led to thousands of new games being blocked from the market in 2018.
The system has been linked to local public security authorities to help freeze any transactions in doubt.
It posted a better-than-expected 30 percent quarterly profit rise in November despite a gaming regulatory freeze, largely thanks to investment gains.
Feng Shixin, deputy director of the copyright bureau of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said the authorities need some time for the review process due to a large number of applications at a conference on Dec 21, several days before the end of a nine-month approval freeze.
"To be sure, the game licensing freeze in China - the world's largest gaming market - comes as no surprise to our industry and has been known for quite a while.
Chinese Literature, which froze a record amount of HK$526 billion last year, remains the city's second-best-performing IPO behind China Railway Construction Corp. Online car retailer Yixin Group also attracted 300,000 retail investors to place 560 times more orders than the number of shares it had on offer.
The Beijing-headquartered firm owns over 100 popular emojis, including Zhangcao Yantuanzi, or Budding Pop, as well as Zhileng Shaonyu or Freeze Girl.
The firm owns over 100 such popular emojis, including Zhileng Shaonyu or Freeze Girl.
When Zhileng Shaonyu, or Freeze Girl, was created in 2014, she was cast as a student.
With time, the Freeze Girl has grown up, a working woman, so to say.
After identifying its errors, the company has taken the survey offline, "unliked" the post, shut down its six websites and apps in Chinese, and put a freeze on its social media across the world.
The Shanghai High People's Court froze assets worth 1.24 billion yuan owned by Jia and his wife Gan Wei.
With the technique that can freeze fresh products to minus 18 degrees in 20 minutes to keep the freshness and taste of fish, and the $40 million investment, "we can double or triple the production, that means we need hiring additional 300-plus workers," Yu said.
Last month, Shanghai High People's Court froze 15.9 billion yuan worth of Jia's stocks in Leshi due to unpaid interest debt.
The move came as LeEco continues to struggle with cash crunch and unpaid debt, which has prompted a local court to freeze almost all of Jia's shares in Leshi, the Shenzhen-listed unit.
Leshi Internet Information and Technology Corp, the listed video-streaming unit of LeEco, said in a filing on Tuesday that unpaid debts prompted a local court to freeze its founder Jia's 519 million shares, around 26 percent of Leshi's stock.
"To see oil prices going above $80(a barrel) with a supply shortage, and people can freeze all they want, these guys aren't about to dip into much of their spare supply, if there is much.
China has rejected the European Parliament's move to freeze the ratification of the EU-China investment deal if Beijing doesn't remove its sanctions on individuals and entities in the European Union.
Some foreign media outlets said the aircraft delivery is an indication that Boeing is moving a step closer to resuming new deliveries of its B737 MAX — a separate model of aircraft — to China after a more than four-year freeze.
Most companies in this business freeze crayfish to guarantee their health and freshness.
大多数从事这个行业的公司都会冷冻 crayfish 以保证其健康和新鲜度。
Foreign invested pharmaceutical and medical devices reported the highest salary rise this year at 6.5 percent for pharmaceuticals and 6.3 percent for medical devices, the report said, adding that no pharmaceutical companies reported a salary freeze during the period.
报告称，今年外商投资的制药和医疗器械行业薪资增长最高，制药行业为6.5%，医疗器械行业为6.3%。此外，报告还补充说，在此期间没有制药公司报告冻结薪资。
While 20 percent of high-tech firms recorded a salary freeze in the first half, only 5 percent will continue to freeze salary in 2021, indicating optimism of these firms toward future development.
“尽管有20%的高科技公司在上半年实行了工资冻结，但只有5%的公司会在2021年继续冻结工资，这表明这些公司对未来的发展持乐观态度。”
"McQuade said the construction freeze will force investors and developers to rethink previous business models.
Whenever I travel next time, I think I might just succumb to the temptation to spend up to $500 to freeze those memorable moments at picturesque overseas locations in unforgettable images, shot by a professional.
China's licensing freeze lasted nine months till December, resulting in 5.3 percent year-on-year growth in the country's game industry last year, compared to the 23 percent year-on-year increase in 2017, statistics from Gamma Data showed.
“伽马数据统计显示，中国的游戏版号冻结持续了九个月，直至去年12月。受此影响，去年中国游戏产业实现了5.3%的同比增长，而这一数字在2017年为23%。”
After the nine-month licensing freeze, they will continue to spread across the globe, and more companies will target overseas markets.
"According to Liu, after experiencing the long-term licensing freeze, local game companies will pay more attention to their products and cherish each game title they have, which will have positive effects on the industry.
She froze, and refused to move initially, fearing that a small change in posture could trigger a sharp pain.
China's licensing freeze lasted nine months till December, contributing to 5.3 percent year-on-year growth in the country's game industry last year, compared to the 23 percent year-on-year increase in 2017, statistics from Gamma Data showed.
Based on the Global Games Market report, released by gaming analytics company Newzoo in June, the nine-month freeze has heavily impacted China, and as a result the Asia-Pacific region is no longer the fastest in growth.
According to the Global Games Market report, released by gaming analytics company Newzoo in June, the nine-month freeze on game licenses, which ended last December, has heavily impacted China, and thus the Asia-Pacific is no longer the fastest-growing region.
China's licensing freeze lasted nine months till December, contributing to a 15.4 percent year-on-year growth in the country's mobile game industry last year, compared to the 41.7 percent year-on-year increase in 2017, according to a recent report released by gaming database Gamma Data Corp.
"The approval freeze dramatically slowed down the local gaming market, amid concerns over social problems like gaming addiction and a waste of time and money on games.
In addition, external factors, such as a freeze on approvals for video games earlier last year also caused a significant reduction in numbers of newly released games.
New licensing measure suggests 2,000 titles are likely to receive approvalThe Chinese government has resumed issuing approvals for gaming titles after a nine-month freeze.
The approval freeze followed a market shake-up in early 2018, after concerns emerged that gaming was causing social problems like addiction, and wasting of time and money among youth.
The freeze had dramatically slowed the local gaming market.
The firm owns over 100 such popular emoji symbols, including Freeze Girl.
"When Freeze Girl was created in 2014, she was cast as a student.
With time, Freeze Girl has grown up, becoming a working woman.
"Plum blossoms tend to grow sweeter from a harsh winter's freeze.
The proposal from the US Transportation Department and Environmental Protection Agency would freeze fuel efficiency standards at 2020 levels through 2026, and require dramatically fewer electric vehicles as more people continue to drive gasoline-powered vehicles.
The administration said the freeze would boost US oil consumption by about 500,000 barrels of oil a day by the 2030s, and argued it would prevent up to 1,000 traffic fatalities per year by reducing the price of new vehicles and so prompting people to buy newer, safer vehicles more quickly.
But if it stays on top of the mountains and refuses to water the plants at the foot of the mountains, it will freeze and become a glacier.
Economists estimated that the 2 percentage-point increase is likely to freeze about $20 billion in the supply of foreign exchange.
Last year, when financial markets were faced with high levels of uncertainty and the real economy contracted sharply due to the pandemic, the US market and liquidity started to freeze up.
The action was the result of a sudden market freeze and contraction.
A finance ministers' meeting in October agreed to freeze the poorest countries' sovereign debt repayments for six months to 2021, with an examination by the time of the 2021 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group as to whether the economic and financial situation requires an extension of the initiative for another six months.
"These developments have raised the risk that the inability of borrowers to service their debts would put pressure on banks and cause credit markets to freeze up," the report said, adding the pandemic crisis presents "a very serious threat" to the stability of the global financial system.
Since the temporary freeze on IPOs following the stock market rout in 2015, China has sought to normalize IPOs by giving approvals at a faster pace to improve financing efficiency and direct more money into the economy.
The CSRC has accelerated the process for IPO approvals since the A-share market stabilized from a dramatic rout in 2015 that prompted the regulator to freeze new share sales to stem the market plunge.