英语词汇“to run on empty”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) to run on empty: (of a vehicle or engine): to operate with little or no fuel in the tank. Hence: (of a person) to function despite having little or no energy left.In quot. 1965 used of a supply of gasoline which is becoming exhausted.

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1965 Gastonia (N. Carolina) Gaz. 25 July 4 a/7 (heading) Gas well running on empty... Elizabeth City's ‘gasoline well’ is still producing but at a diminishing flow... Investigators have speculated that the fluid may be coming from tanks left in the area during World War II.

1967 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 1 Apr. (Weekend Comics section) Heavens! We've been running on ‘empty’ for miles.

1985 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 30 May e1 When you add on top of that the real stress of bad things that can happen, you're asking people who are all used up to try harder to run on empty, and they collapse.

2004 J. Wilcockson 23 Days in July (2005) ii. 38 Then, partway up the hill, Merckx suddenly slowed. He was running on empty, as if he had the symptoms of what cyclists call ‘the bonk’ or hunger knock.

单词	to run on empty
释义	> as lemmas to run on empty (b) to run on empty: (of a vehicle or engine): to operate with little or no fuel in the tank. Hence: (of a person) to function despite having little or no energy left.In quot. 1965 used of a supply of gasoline which is becoming exhausted. ΚΠ 1965 Gastonia (N. Carolina) Gaz. 25 July 4 a/7 (heading) Gas well running on empty... Elizabeth City's ‘gasoline well’ is still producing but at a diminishing flow... Investigators have speculated that the fluid may be coming from tanks left in the area during World War II. 1967 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 1 Apr. (Weekend Comics section) Heavens! We've been running on ‘empty’ for miles. 1985 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 30 May e1 When you add on top of that the real stress of bad things that can happen, you're asking people who are all used up to try harder to run on empty, and they collapse. 2004 J. Wilcockson 23 Days in July (2005) ii. 38 Then, partway up the hill, Merckx suddenly slowed. He was running on empty, as if he had the symptoms of what cyclists call ‘the bonk’ or hunger knock. extracted from runv. < as lemmas
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