Runs Out of Charge, be running on empty, karate, karaoke, hot air

Tesla Motors will cut an undisclosed number of jobs in China after seeing slow sales. One challenge: Families live in apartments, complicating the set-up of a home charger.

Tesla Runs Out of Charge in China

Telsa Motors will cut jobs in China as it continues to grapple with slow sales there.

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好萊塢影片《功夫夢》（The Karate Kid）


《中英對照讀新聞》Are Zeppelins about to take off again-or is it just hot air? 齊柏林飛船準備再度升空…還是只是膨風？

Running on empty but determined to finish. Marathon runner crawls to finish line after collapsing.
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hot air：片語，沒有實際成果的空談。例句：The politicians’ promises are regarded as just hot air.（這些政客的承諾被當做只是空談。）◎ 管淑平

 Charge
4.2 [MASS NOUN] Energy stored chemically for conversion into electricity.

run out of gas

Definition of run out of gas in English:

North American informal Run out of energy; losemomentum:as a humorist he ran out of gas years ago

hot air
n. Slang
Empty, exaggerated talk.
karate
n.
A Japanese art of self-defense in which sharp blows and kicks are administered to pressure-sensitive points on the body of an opponent.

[Japanese : kara, empty + te, hand.] 空手道

karateist ka·ra'te·ist n.

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karaoke
n.

1. A music entertainment system providing prerecorded accompaniment to popular songs that a performer sings live, usually by following the words on a video screen.
2. The performance of such music.

[Japanese : kara, void, empty + oke(sutora), orchestra (from EnglishORCHESTRA).]

be running on empty

Definition of be running on empty in English:

Have exhausted all of one’s resources:

he was running on empty and even the alcohol had worn off