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Exhaust Car Physically Exhausted Food Gas Verb 动词

英语单词 exhaust
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]
  • Don't exhaust him...

    不要把他累坏了。

  • He took to walking long distances in an attempt to physically exhaust himself.

    他开始长距离步行,试图耗尽自己的体力。

exhausted
  • She was too exhausted and distressed to talk about the tragedy.

    她太累了,而且无比悲伤,没法谈论那场悲剧。

exhausting
  • It was an exhausting schedule she had set herself.

    她给自己安排了叫人筋疲力尽的日程。

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]
  • We have exhausted all our material resources...

    我们已经耗尽了所有的物资。

  • They said that food supplies were almost exhausted.

    他们说供应的食物几乎快要吃完了。

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]
  • She and Chantal must have exhausted the subject of babies and clothes.

    她和尚塔尔肯定已经充分讨论过宝宝和衣服的问题。

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]
    • ...the exhaust from a car engine...

      汽车发动机排放的尾气

    • The city's streets are filthy and choked with exhaust fumes.

      那座城市的街道肮脏不堪,弥漫着令人窒息的废气。

    • ...the concentration of car exhausts in the Los Angeles area.

      洛杉矶地区汽车尾气的浓度

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