英语单词 | exhaust |
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英美音标 | 英 [ɪɡ'zɔːst] 美 [ɪɡ'zɔːst] |
中文释义 | v.使筋疲力尽;耗尽;详尽论述 n.排气装置;废气 |
英语例句 | (1) Caring for young children can exhaust you physically and mentally. (2) The expedition was forced to turn back when it exhausted its food supply. (3) He failed to exhaust this subject. (4) The car needs a new exhaust. |
中文例句 | (1) 照顾小孩子会使你身心疲惫。 (2) 没有了食物,这个探险队不得不返航。 (3) 他没能对这个题作详尽无遗的论述。 (4) 这辆车需要换一个新的排气管。 |
vocabulary简明 | The noun exhaust refers to what comes out of your car's tailpipe. It consists of the burned gases and particulate matter that are created by the engine. As a verb, the word exhaust means to use something up, such as a food supply or your energy. |
vocabulary扩展 | The exhaust system in your car is the part that takes the waste created by the car in the form of gas or smoke and expels it through the tailpipe. The noun exhaust appeared in the 19th century, after the invention of the engine. Before that, the word, as a verb, referred only to depleting something, such as a natural resource. Miners deplete a mineral deposit and exhaust the resource. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]使精疲力竭;使疲惫不堪 If something exhausts you, it makes you so tired, either physically or mentally, that you have no energy left. [V n]
exhausted
exhausting
2 [VERB 动词]耗尽;用光 If you exhaust something such as money or food, you use or finish it all. [V n] [V-ed]
3 [VERB 动词]详尽地讨论;详尽无遗地论述 If you have exhausted a subject or topic, you have talked about it so much that there is nothing more to say about it. [V n]
4 [N-COUNT 可数名词]排气管 The exhaust or the exhaust pipe is the pipe which carries the gas out of the engine of a vehicle. [mainly BRIT 主英] 5 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]尾气;废气 Exhaust is the gas or steam that is produced when the engine of a vehicle is running. [also N in pl]
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