这是是人的能量耗尽了的表现，这就像死死地踩住一辆没油的汽车的油门踏板，更准确的说，是正确的种类的汽油。

It's like ramming the accelerator pedal in a car that has run out of petrol. Or, strictly speaking, of the right sort of petrol.

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他们的燃料快耗尽了。

They were low on fuel.

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用于软件的$2500很快被各种花销耗尽了。

$2,500 for software is soon swallowed up in general costs.

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It's a little bit like Aristotle's idea of catharsis, which can be understood in a variety of ways, but Milton at the end of Samson Agonistes understands it in one way when he says, Now we have as a result of this tragedy "calm of mind, all passion spent."

这有点像亚里士多德的精神发泄法理论，我们可以通过各种方法来理解，但是米尔顿在《力士参孙》一书的结尾,有另一种理解，他写道，这个悲剧使我们拥有了,“平静的精神，耗尽的热情“

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