run out phrasal verbphr v a) i. FINISH/USE ALL OF somethingto use all of something and not have any more left 用完,耗尽〔某物〕 I’ve got money you can borrow if you run out. 如果你钱用光了,我有钱可以借给你。
of They ran out of money and had to abandon the project. 他们的钱用光了,不得不放弃这个项目。
He’d run out of ideas. 他已经想不出任何办法了。
ii. FINISH/USE ALL OF somethingif something is running out, there will soon be none left 〔某物〕即将用完 We must act now because time is running out. 时间不多了,我们必须立即行动。
My patience was running out. 我快没耐心了。
His luck had run out (=there was none left). 他的好运到头了。
c) run out of steam informal (also run out of gas American English)FINISH/USE ALL OF something to have no more energy or no longer be interested in what you are doing 筋疲力尽;对…失去热情 The team seemed to have run out of gas. 球队似乎已经筋疲力尽了。
d) run somebody out of town old-fashionedLEAVE A PLACE to force someone to leave a place, because they have done something wrong 〔因某人做错事而〕把某人赶走,把某人驱逐出去 e) run somebody ↔ outDSC to end a player’s innings in the game of cricket by hitting the stumps with the ball while they are running 〔板球比赛中以球触三门柱〕使〔正在跑的击球手〕出局 run of• But graves registration had run out of body bags, and the corpses were stacked without them.• He had run out of clothespins.• But this company has been doing business for 26 years and shows no sign of running out of energy or new ideas.• We ran out of gas on the freeway last night.• We're starting to run out of ideas.• We've run out of milk. Could you stop at the store on your way home?• Can people ever run out of new uses for computers?• I hope we don't run out of paint.• The gauges showed he was pulling maximum power, and we were running out of room.• I turned away, feeling sick, and ran out of the room.• If they leave the taps running they will run out of water until it rains again.• By the time they got back to the camp, they had nearly run out of water. run somebody out of town• Or at least run them out of town.