Panicked trading on March 15th prompted worries of the market seizing up.

3月15日恐慌之下的交易引发了人们对市场失灵的担忧。

I jumped out—well, more of a hobble, really, as my legs were seizing up from the morning's run—and bought a packet, thinking how odd it was to buy cigarettes from a pharmacy.

我跳了出来——嗯， 更像是一个蹒跚的人，真的，因为我的腿从早上的跑步中被抓住了——买了一包， 想着从药店买香烟是多么奇怪。

By making it illegal for Western firms to deal with big Russian banks, except in the energy trade, and expelling them from the global-payments plumbing, the flow of money across borders is seizing up.

它们通过将西方公司与俄罗斯大银行（能源贸易除外）的交易定为非法，并将卢布从全球支付系统中驱逐出去，使得跨境资金流动正在停滞不前。

The Jew stepped back in this emergency, with more agility than could have been anticipated in a man of his apparent decrepitude; and, seizing up the pot, prepared to hurl it at his assailant's head.

犹太人在这种紧急情况下向后退了一步，他的敏捷程度超出了一个明显衰老的人的预期。并且，拿起锅，准备将它扔向袭击者的脑袋。