The hotel was completely burnt out. Only the walls remained.
旅馆完全烧空了,仅余四壁。
We passed several burnt out cars.
我们从几辆被烧成空壳的汽车旁边经过。
c)burn something ↔ out to remove something by burning it 烧掉
The cancer cells are burnt out using a laser beam.
用激光束把癌细胞烧死。
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 耗尽体力;耗尽心思
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 〔引擎或电线〕烧坏
The plugs are wired so that if one burns out, the others will still start the engine.
火花塞由电线相连,因此要是一个烧坏,其他几个仍能将引擎发动起来。
burn something ↔ out
I think you’ve burnt out one of the gaskets.
我想你是把其中一个密封垫烧坏了。
f)AIRCRAFTTTATTWif a rocket or jet burns out, it stops working because all its fuel has been used 〔火箭或喷气式飞机〕燃油耗尽 →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.