burn out

英 [bɜːn aʊt]

美 [bɜːrn aʊt]

燃尽; 烧尽; 熄灭

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柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 燃尽；烧尽；熄灭
  If a fireburns itself out, it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn.
  1. Fire officials let the fire burn itself out.
     消防官员让火自行熄灭。
• PHRASAL VERB 耗尽体力；筋疲力尽
  If youburn yourself out, you make yourself exhausted or ill by working too hard.
  1. He might burn himself out and go to an early grave.
     他可能会因为劳累过度而英年早逝。
• See also:burnoutburnt-out

英英释义

verb

• melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
  1. The lightbulbs blew out
  2. The fuse blew
  Synonym:blow outblow

双语例句

• At last, the article has proposed some constructive suggestions to burn out intervention.
  最后，文章还对如何解决警察的工作倦怠问题提出了一些建设性的建议。
• If you do not slow down and take a break, you will burn out very quickly.
  如果你不放慢速度歇一会儿，很快就会没劲的。
• If we answer this call to often we burn out.
  如果我们总是接这样的电话，非得累死不可。
• I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
  我宁愿生命的火花在壮丽的火焰中燃烧殆尽，也不愿在腐朽之物中窒息而死。
• They must burn out at length like used candles;
  他们必须尽可能燃烧自己如用过的蜡烛一般；
• Build some breathing room into your schedule so you don't burn out.
  在安排时间时，要给自己留下调整的余地，这样才不会让你心力交瘁。
• 'I'll take her out skating where I love, where we shall burn out mouth on hot cocoa and will end with sore feet from skating so many rounds.
  我会带她到我喜欢的地方滑冰，我们会喝热得烫口的可可饮料。我们会滑很多圈，最后脚都酸了。
• I'd rather burn out than rust out. I'd rather be used up than die not having done whatever I could* wherever I would.
  我宁可燃烧而不愿锈蚀，我宁可筋疲力尽而不愿一事无成地死去，没有完成自己能做的，没有去过我想去的地方。
• Not exactly disappear, but the sun will eventually burn out and die.
  不是完全消失，太阳的能量最后会耗尽并枯竭。
• I've seen way too many marketing professionals burn out and stray away from the basics.
  我看到过太多的销售专家都已经手足无措，并且远远偏离了基础。