burn out

基本解释

If we answer this call to often we burn out.
如果我们总是接这样的电话，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，那么只需要坐在那里看着，它会自己燃烧。
Once lava spouts, it will burn out all weeds, and trees, then nothing will rot.
熔岩一旦喷出，将烧尽一切野草，以及乔木，于是并且无可朽腐。
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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.
如果你知道自己还剩下50年，你不会英年早逝-,或者说你不会油尽灯枯，英年早逝-,如果你知道,你可以活到97岁高龄，你就会为自己选择另一种生活。
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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.
热力学中的一些观点,甚至被应用到经济学中，非平衡态系统，比如像安永那样大公司,彻底偏离平衡态,最后破产了。
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This could be an early indication of a franchise that will burn out quickly.
FORBES: Did Zynga Buy OMGPOP Literally the Day It Peaked?

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