英语词汇“to run out of gas”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. to run out of steam (in later use also to run out of gas, etc.): (of a person) to exhaust one's energy, impetus, ideas, etc.; similarly of a process, movement, etc.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > become weary or exhausted [verb (intransitive)] > exhaust one's strength or energy

to break one's back or necka1616

to melt one's grease1645

break1726

to run out of steam1836

to overdo it1853

to peg out1887

1836 J. C. Newman Harmonies of Creation p. xiv Whenever I hear a politician boasting of what he has achieved, and flattering the people with what he intends to do,..I am sure to say to myself—‘Quick promisers are generally very slow performers’—Poor man, you will surely run out of steam!

1907 ‘W. Standish’ Jack Lorimer's Champions xi. 99 Roxbridge [sc. a rowing team] had shot her bolt..and was running out of steam. In the next fifty yards Millvale lapped her.

1924 N.Y. Times 8 Aug. 8/3 At that point [in the game] the Indian offensive ran out of steam.

1954 Jet 8 Apr. 53 Chicago's Du Sable High School basketball team..ran out of gas in its fight for the Illinois state championship.

1973 D. Francis Slay-ride vii. 78 When I'd run out of steam, they would begin to nod while they listened.

1985 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Entertainment section) Will the rock musician run out of juice? When will Brandon Tartikoff give up?

2003 Foreign Affairs May 69 Even Chile..had run out of steam, averaging barely three percent growth between 1999 and 2002.

单词	to run out of gas
释义	> as lemmas to run out of gas c. to run out of steam (in later use also to run out of gas, etc.): (of a person) to exhaust one's energy, impetus, ideas, etc.; similarly of a process, movement, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > become weary or exhausted [verb (intransitive)] > exhaust one's strength or energy to break one's back or necka1616 to melt one's grease1645 break1726 to run out of steam1836 to overdo it1853 to peg out1887 1836 J. C. Newman Harmonies of Creation p. xiv Whenever I hear a politician boasting of what he has achieved, and flattering the people with what he intends to do,..I am sure to say to myself—‘Quick promisers are generally very slow performers’—Poor man, you will surely run out of steam! 1907 ‘W. Standish’ Jack Lorimer's Champions xi. 99 Roxbridge [sc. a rowing team] had shot her bolt..and was running out of steam. In the next fifty yards Millvale lapped her. 1924 N.Y. Times 8 Aug. 8/3 At that point [in the game] the Indian offensive ran out of steam. 1954 Jet 8 Apr. 53 Chicago's Du Sable High School basketball team..ran out of gas in its fight for the Illinois state championship. 1973 D. Francis Slay-ride vii. 78 When I'd run out of steam, they would begin to nod while they listened. 1985 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Entertainment section) Will the rock musician run out of juice? When will Brandon Tartikoff give up? 2003 Foreign Affairs May 69 Even Chile..had run out of steam, averaging barely three percent growth between 1999 and 2002. extracted from runv. < as lemmas
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