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单词 jaded
释义
jadedja‧ded /ˈdʒeɪdɪd/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINjaded
Origin:
1600-1700 jade ‘to make (a horse) tired with too much work’ (17-19 centuries), from jade ‘worn-out horse’ (14-21 centuries)
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • After two years of the same routine I was feeling jaded.
  • Mick Jagger arrived at the airport looking jaded after almost a year of touring.
  • New York musicians are jaded and tough.
  • The beauty of St. Petersburg will impress even the most jaded tourist.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • His limpid style and flashes of wit overcame Labour heckling, tickled the press and brought a smile to jaded Tory backbenchers.
  • I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin.
  • In Sly's jaded mood she seemed to be a living embodiment of freshness and vitality.
  • Its vistas leave a warm and timeless imprint on even the most jaded memory.
  • She felt jaded and in need of emotional uplift.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who is liked more than other people
to feel tired, bored, and annoyed, especially because something annoying keeps happening or something has continued for too long: be fed up with: · He tells me he's fed up with school. Maybe that's why his grades have been so bad.be fed up with doing something: · I'm fed up with watching what I eat.get fed up: · He waited for two hours, then he got fed up and left.· I'm getting fed up with this cold weather.
to be fed up because you have been doing something or have experienced something boring, annoying etc for too long: · He just seems to be tired of the whole thing.be tired of doing something: · Gabrielle was tired of staying at home with the children.get tired of something: · Well, if you get tired of life in the city, you can always come back home.· I'm getting tired of chicken for dinner every night.
to be very fed up and annoyed, especially with a situation or someone's behaviour that has continued for much too long: · After living here for ten years, we're sick of Los Angeles.be sick of doing something: · I'm sick of living with my parents.be sick and tired of something/be sick to death of something (=use this when something is extremely annoying or boring): · You must be sick and tired of having to deal with other people's problems all day.· I'm sick to death of all these stupid questions about my private life.
if you have had enough of someone's behaviour, the way someone is treating you etc, you are very fed up with it and will not accept it any longer: · The work was boring and the office was depressing. By the end of the first week she had had enough.have had enough of: · Stop interrupting. I've had just about enough of you and your stupid remarks.· After thirty years, MacMillan had had enough of management.
spoken say this when you are so fed up with someone's behaviour or a situation that you cannot accept it any longer: · I've had it. I'm taking the kids and going to Mom's.have had it with: · She's looking for another job -- she's just about had it with this place.have had it up to here: · I tell you, I've just about had it up to here -- what with all the staffing problems and now the computer breaking down. I feel like quitting.have had it up to here with somebody/something: · Dave's had it up to here with the kids. They've been complaining and arguing all day.
informal to be very fed up - use this only in informal situations and to people you know well: · I think you'd better try and cheer her up. She's really pissed off.be pissed off with: · She's pissed off with him for calling her all the time.
British /be at the end of your rope American to be so worried, tired, and unhappy that you feel you can no longer deal with a difficult, unpleasant, or upsetting situation: · I had no money, my husband was sick, and I couldn't get a job. I was at the end of my tether.· She didn't know what to do to stop the baby crying -- she was at the end of her rope.
fed up with an activity or job because you have been doing it for a very long time and you no longer find it interesting or exciting: · After two years of the same routine I was feeling jaded.· The beauty of St. Petersburg will impress even the most jaded tourist.· Mick Jagger arrived at the airport looking jaded after almost a year of touring.
someone who is jaded is no longer interested in or excited by something, usually because they have experienced too much of it:  The concert should satisfy even the most jaded critic.
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