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

burn out

1Cease to function as a result of excessive heat or friction: the clutch had burned out...

The first successful light bulbs marketed by Edison in the 1880s produced so much heat that they burnt out very rapidly.
Measures like this ensure the chip will not burn out as it heats up from use.
Three days later he got a second SMS saying that she had got as far as Parys but her clutch had burnt out and could he let her have R800 more for the repairs.

2Ruin one’s health or become completely exhausted through overwork: social pressures that can cause career women to burn out (as adjective burned out) a burned-out undercover cop...

She had died at the age of 45 from exhaustion, burnt out by the hardships of life.
But for a burned out cop like Mitch, it was just what the proverbial doctor had ordered.
Rather than improving technique, burned out dancers may report debilitating fatigue, loss of enthusiasm, and injuries.

Synonyms

work too hard, work like a Trojan/horse/slave, work/run oneself into the ground, wear oneself to a shadow, work one's fingers to the bone, drive oneself into the ground, sweat, sweat blood, work day and night, burn the candle at both ends, burn the midnight oil, overtax oneself, overtax one's strength, kill oneself, do too much, overdo it, strain oneself, overburden oneself, overload oneself, drive/push oneself too hard

informal knock oneself out, work one's tail off

vulgar slang work/sweat one's balls off

See parent entry: burn

单词	burn out
释义	burn out 1Cease to function as a result of excessive heat or friction: the clutch had burned out... The first successful light bulbs marketed by Edison in the 1880s produced so much heat that they burnt out very rapidly. Measures like this ensure the chip will not burn out as it heats up from use. Three days later he got a second SMS saying that she had got as far as Parys but her clutch had burnt out and could he let her have R800 more for the repairs. 2Ruin one’s health or become completely exhausted through overwork: social pressures that can cause career women to burn out (as adjective burned out) a burned-out undercover cop... She had died at the age of 45 from exhaustion, burnt out by the hardships of life. But for a burned out cop like Mitch, it was just what the proverbial doctor had ordered. Rather than improving technique, burned out dancers may report debilitating fatigue, loss of enthusiasm, and injuries. Synonyms work too hard, work like a Trojan/horse/slave, work/run oneself into the ground, wear oneself to a shadow, work one's fingers to the bone, drive oneself into the ground, sweat, sweat blood, work day and night, burn the candle at both ends, burn the midnight oil, overtax oneself, overtax one's strength, kill oneself, do too much, overdo it, strain oneself, overburden oneself, overload oneself, drive/push oneself too hard informal knock oneself out, work one's tail off vulgar slang work/sweat one's balls off See parent entry: burn
随便看	out-of-round out-of-roundness out of season out-of-series out of service out of sight out of sight, out of mind out of sorts out of square out-of-state out-of-stater out of temper out of the blue out of the box out of the common out of the frying pan into the fire out of the game out of the handicap out of the ordinary out of the (or one's) road out of the picture out of the question out of the way out-of-the-wayness out of (the) whole cloth