The heavy snowstorm caused a tie-up of traffic.

大 风雪 造成了交通的暂时停顿。

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Because we really have some trouble. The order we placed with you is comparatively a big one. The tie-up of funds indeed presents us a big problem.

因为我们确实有些困难。我们跟你们做的这笔订单是一个较大的订单。资金的占压让我们确实吃不消。

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My stomach remains empty, and I must tie myself up if I am not to die of hunger.

我的肚子还是空的，如果我不想饿死，我就得把裤带勒紧。

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As a result, the profits needed to justify these acquisitions and the ongoing tie-up of capital needed to support them must come from cost-takeouts, from the squeezing of the Medicaid turnip.

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That would not give Vivendi the cash it wants immediately, but it could sell its stake at some point in the future - or it could borrow the money from its bankers on the strength of that tie-up.

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In contrast with News Corp's sally for Dow Jones, many of the thorny details of the proposed tie-up between Reuters and Thomson, the second- and third-largest providers of financial data respectively, have already been worked out.

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