| 单词 | to run out of steam |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run out of steam c. to run out of steam (in later use also to run out of gas, etc.): (of a person) to exhaust one's energy, impetus, ideas, etc.; similarly of a process, movement, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > become weary or exhausted [verb (intransitive)] > exhaust one's strength or energy to break one's back or necka1616 to melt one's grease1645 break1726 to run out of steam1836 to overdo it1853 to peg out1887 1836 J. C. Newman Harmonies of Creation p. xiv Whenever I hear a politician boasting of what he has achieved, and flattering the people with what he intends to do,..I am sure to say to myself—‘Quick promisers are generally very slow performers’—Poor man, you will surely run out of steam! 1907 ‘W. Standish’ Jack Lorimer's Champions xi. 99 Roxbridge [sc. a rowing team] had shot her bolt..and was running out of steam. In the next fifty yards Millvale lapped her. 1924 N.Y. Times 8 Aug. 8/3 At that point [in the game] the Indian offensive ran out of steam. 1954 Jet 8 Apr. 53 Chicago's Du Sable High School basketball team..ran out of gas in its fight for the Illinois state championship. 1973 D. Francis Slay-ride vii. 78 When I'd run out of steam, they would begin to nod while they listened. 1985 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Entertainment section) Will the rock musician run out of juice? When will Brandon Tartikoff give up? 2003 Foreign Affairs May 69 Even Chile..had run out of steam, averaging barely three percent growth between 1999 and 2002. to run out of steam d. In phrases descriptive of the working of a steam-engine, esp. of a locomotive; often used figuratively; e.g. (at) full (half, etc.) steam; with full or all one's steam on; to have (all, much, etc.) steam on; to get up steam, put on steam; to blow off steam, shut off steam, turn off steam; under steam, with steam up, in steam, with the engine working or ready to start working; under one's own steam; like steam (Australian), furiously; to let off steam: frequently figurative, to relieve one's pent-up energy by vigorous activity; to give vent to one's feelings, esp. harmlessly; to run out of steam: see to run out of —— 1c at run v. Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [adjective] > working or ready to start working in steam1768 under steam1860 with steam up1870 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > operate steam engine [verb (intransitive)] > turn off or let off steam shut off steam1824 to let off steam1831 turn off steam1878 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > operate steam engine [verb (intransitive)] to get up steam1832 put on steam1878 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest itself [verb (intransitive)] > give vent to feelings acangc1225 to run out1719 to let off steam1857 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > power of indicated (horse-) power1875 (at) full (half, etc.) steam1878 the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy with (also in) mood and maineOE vigour13.. with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330 with (one's) forcec1380 like anything1665 hammer and tongs1708 like stour1787 (in) double tides1788 like blazes1818 like winking1827 with a will1827 like winky1830 like all possessed1833 in a big way1840 like (or worse than) sin1840 full swing1843 like a Trojan1846 like one o'clock1847 like sixty1848 like forty1852 like wildfire1857 like old boots1865 like blue murder1867 like steam1905 like stink1929 like one thing1938 like a demon1945 up a storm1953 the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [phrase] > with no aid from others under one's own steam1912 1768 Watt in Muirhead Invent. Watt (1854) I. 18 I am now getting an apparatus ready for setting it [the engine] wholly in steam as before. 1824 ‘R. Stuart’ Descr. Hist. Steam Engine 132 The motion of the piston was equalized by shutting off the steam sooner or later from the cylinder. 1831 Rep. Select Comm. Steam Carriages 20 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 324) VIII. 203 Are you frequently obliged to let off steam? 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. iii. 39 I have..a way of going a-head, by getting up the steam..—and the fuel is brandy. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlvii. 512 Get on a little faster; put a little more steam on, Ma'am, pray. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow I. xi. 144 The widow..sat..fuming and blowing off her steam. 1844 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 301 Get up your steam, if this weather lasts, and have a ramble in Wales. 1851 Blackburn Standard 5 Nov. 2/5 The steamer's officers ordering full steam ahead. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. ii. 261 Now jumping the old iron-bound tables,..then joining in some chorus of merry voices; in fact, blowing off his steam, as we should now call it. 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 216 Orders were given..to let the ship go under easy steam. 1863 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 249/1 This is a free country, and a few eloquent or blustering Radicals serve to ‘let off the steam’ of their class. 1869 H. James Let. 16 Apr. in J. Strouse Alice James (1980) viii. 138 I feel an irresistible need to let off steam periodically & to confide to a sympathetic ear the impressions which the week has generated in my soul. 1870 Remin. Amer. 203 Their steam fire-engines..are always kept in readiness with steam up and the horses harnessed. 1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. June 392/2 The Forward was under steam, ready to seize the first opening to make her exit. 1878 W. H. G. Kingston Three Admirals xviii. 416 Full steam was put on. 1878 W. H. G. Kingston Three Admirals xviii. 417 The engineer having thoughtfully turned off the steam to prevent the boilers from exploding. 1881 M. Reynolds Engine-driving Life 112 Of course his engine is in steam. All is done for him. 1883 G. M. Fenn Middy & Ensign xxxix. 237 Every effort being made by the firemen to get up steam. 1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 107 ‘And he [the bull] came for you?’ ‘When he'd got up steam he did.’ 1893 Times 14 Aug. 8/6 Captain Hicks immediately ordered full steam astern, and at the same moment the helm to be put a starboard. 1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 82 I naturally went to grass through having too much steam on to be able to pull up in time. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 71 Half-steam ahead by guess and lead, for the sun is mostly veiled. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 147 A result of some previous shutting off of nervous steam. 1905 H. Lawson Coll. Verse (1968) II. 4 We was draftin' 'em out for the homeward track and sharin' 'em round like steam. 1912 Conrad in English Rev. XI. 311 We are not allowed to bring them in under their own steam. 1916 H. J. Laski in Holmes-Laski Lett. (1953) I. 25 I intend to write you a weekly letter to Washington—for I must let off steam somewhere. 1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. 70 Commonsense says that it is better..‘to let off steam’ than to ‘eat your heart out’. 1920 Times 9 Apr. 10/1 Mr Chamberlain yesterday received the order to go full steam ahead with his budget. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 737/3 She..wrote sedate and quite readable novels to the prescribed pattern—but let off steam in stormy poems privately printed. 1949 J. Symons Bland Beginning 142 ‘Would you be kind enough to..see Miss Cleverly home.’ ‘That's not necessary... I can move under my own steam.’ 1976 J. I. M. Stewart Young Pattullo iii. 72 It's just a dining club letting off steam. 1979 B. Hardy World owes Me Nothing 102 I hammered at the door like steam and over he came and opened it. 2012 Foreign Affairs 91 iii. 129 As Western governments have scaled back their support for renewable power, China has been pushing full steam ahead. < as lemmas |
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