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。

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The water slurped in the tank.

水在箱里嘶嘶地响。

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She puts water and rocks in the tank.

她把水和石头放进水箱里。

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Engineers had to boil off the remaining oxygen by turning on a heater in the tank.

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Putting hydrogen onboard an automobile, it's one thing to have hydrogen in the tank.

如何把氢气装在汽车里，一个办法是把氢气装在一个罐子里面。

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But you don't know that you are floating in the tank.

但你不知道自己飘浮在容器里。

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"It isn't worth squat to have the fastest car at the racetrack if there ain't any gas in the tank and that's why the work that Ready for Hillary PAC is doing is absolutely critical, " Carville said.

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No exact figures but after a week of city driving, I had well over three-quarters of a tank left in the can.

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As the Constitutional Accountability Center, a think tank, revealed, the judges in the majority had previously attended legal junkets, on a Montana ranch, that were arranged by the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment a group funded by Koch family foundations.

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