There is only so much fuel in the tank and if you burn it up too quickly you are in trouble.

油罐里只有这么多燃料了，如果你用得太快，就有麻烦了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The plane circled the airport to burn up excess fuel.

飞机在机场上空盘旋以耗掉多余的燃料。

《牛津词典》

In August, a technical glitch led the spacecraft to burn up half of its remaining fuel - a moment that endangered the entire project for several weeks.

今年八月，一个技术故障导致LCROSS探测器耗尽剩余燃料的一半——这使整个项目在之后的几个星期之内濒于危机之中。

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Nuclear engineers have long known of increased risks from high burn-up fuels, but scientists at Argonne have been sounding the alarm about storage dangers in recent years after their research ( pdf) showed high burn-up fuels may result in fuel rods becoming more brittle over time.

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