cramped up

基本解释

My leg cramped up.
我的腿抽筋了。
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Cold cold wind a few leaves to swaying cramped up in my window, in this season of scene after scene from the War years.
阴冷阴冷的风吹得树叶儿局促地摇曳起来，在我的窗外，在这一幕一幕的季节离殇里。
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None of the young players, who had all grown up in cramped, overcrowded apartments, had seen anything like the Rosens' condo, with its sprawling floor plan spanning five levels.
这帮小球员都是在狭窄拥挤的公寓里长大的，谁也没见过像罗斯家这样的高档公寓。

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But his 23-year-old brother, Simon(ph), ended up in a cramped apartment with two other Lost Boys.
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For now, he's flattening the ground to start a garden, but he's fed up with the cramped church-run shelter he's called home for the past year.
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