The hotel was completely burnt out. Only the walls remained.
旅館完全燒空了,僅餘四壁。
We passed several burnt out cars.
我們從幾輛被燒成空殼的汽車旁邊經過。
c)burn something ↔ out to remove something by burning it 燒掉
The cancer cells are burnt out using a laser beam.
用激光束把癌細胞燒死。
d)TIREDto work so hard over a period of time that you become unable to continue working because you are tired, ill, or unable to think of any new ideas 耗盡體力;耗盡心思
It’s a high-pressure job and you could burn out young.
e)ENGINEDAMAGEif an engine or electricwire burns out or is burnt out, it stops working because it has been damaged by getting too hot 〔引擎或電線〕燒壞
The plugs are wired so that if one burns out, the others will still start the engine.
火花塞由電線相連,因此要是一個燒壞,其他幾個仍能將引擎發動起來。
burn something ↔ out
I think you’ve burnt out one of the gaskets.
我想你是把其中一個密封墊燒壞了。
f)AIRCRAFTTTATTWif a rocket or jet burns out, it stops working because all its fuel has been used 〔火箭或噴氣式飛機〕燃油耗盡 →burnout(2)
Examples from the Corpus
burn itself out• It's only a small fire - we can leave it to burn itself out.• Below a given voltage, the compressor in a refrigeratorburns itself out.• If this is allowed to go on, it will burn itself out.• In time, like all corruptible passions of the flesh, this one would simply burn itself out.• Firefighters are hoping the blaze will burn itself out before dawn.• Even the sun had to burn itself out, one day.• His love for Eloise had been unhealthy, red-hot, bound to burn itself out sooner or later.
be burnt out• As a result many people are burnt out.• This time more than 20 carswere burnt out.• One lorrywas burnt out and a fire officers car was also damaged.• Garage fire: One car was burnt out and two others damaged in a garage blaze near Northallerton.• Instead of resting in dressing-rooms between shows, the Girlswere burnt outcoping with double and tripling.• All over Bosnia, dwellingsare burnt out, uninhabitable, or simply not there any more.
burn yourself out• Below a given voltage, the compressor in a refrigerator burns itself out.• I've seen people burn themselves out.• If this is allowed to go on, it will burn itself out.• In time, like all corruptible passions of the flesh, this one would simply burn itself out.• Our feelings seem almost too powerful, the sort that burn themselves out.• Lynda La Plante is in gravedanger of burning herself out and it's no laughingmatter.• Even the sun had to burn itself out, one day.