burn out

英 [bɜːn aʊt]

美 [bɜːrn aʊt]

燃尽; 烧尽; 熄灭

机械

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

• Even with the demanding classes, it's hard to find a "burn out" at Brown.
  即使对一些要求苛刻的课程，在布朗也很少遇到“焦头烂额”的人。
• 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。
• '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。
• 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；
• 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。
• Bessemer process: a method for making steel by blasting compressed air through molten iron to burn out excess carbon and impurities.
  贝塞麦炼钢法：吹入压缩空气通过熔融的钢铁以燃尽多余的碳和杂质的一种炼钢方法。
• 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。
• It may burn out electrical appliance and cause fire or make people get electric shock.
  它可能烧坏电器，引起火灾，或者使人触电。
• Any electric light bulb will eventually burn out.
  任何电灯泡最后总会烧坏的。
• Fire officials let the fire burn itself out.
  消防官员让火自行熄灭。