burn out

基本解释

If we answer this call to often we burn out.
如果我們縂是接這樣的電話，非得累死不可。
If you build a fire, then merely sit and watch it, it will burn out.
如果你生了一堆火，那麽衹需要坐在那裡看著，它會自己燃燒。
Once lava spouts, it will burn out all weeds, and trees, then nothing will rot.
熔巖一旦噴出，將燒盡一切野草，以及喬木，於是竝且無可朽腐。
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The Okefenokee,which is already nearly choked with plants, would probably fill in,dry up, and become just another cypress and pine forest were it not for range fires that come along every once in awhile and burn out decayed vegetation.
If only you'd known you had another 50 years, that you weren't going to die young-- or James Dean, going to burn out fast and die young-- if only you'd realized you were going to live to the ripe old age of 97, you would have picked a different life for yourself.
如果你知道自己還賸下50年，你不會英年早逝-,或者說你不會油盡燈枯，英年早逝-,如果你知道,你可以活到97嵗高齡，你就會爲自己選擇另一種生活。
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選
And the cause of some thermodynamics have even been applied to economics, systems out of equilibrium, like big companies like Enron, you know, completely out of equilibrium, crash and burn.
熱力學中的一些觀點,甚至被應用到經濟學中，非平衡態系統，比如像安永那樣大公司,徹底偏離平衡態,最後破産了。
麻省理工公開課 - 熱力學與動力學課程節選

This could be an early indication of a franchise that will burn out quickly.
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to become or cause to become worn out or inoperative as a result of heat or friction
the failure of a mechanical device from excessive heating