| 单词 | tire |
| 释义 | tire I. intransitive verb 1. < tired long before the race was over > < the pitcher seems to be tiring although it is only the seventh inning > 2. < never tires of reading the Bible > < can describe it a thousand times before anyone tires of it — Maxwell Mays > transitive verb 1. < the long hike tired the younger scouts > 2. < the endless chattering tired him and he left the room > 3. < tiring the land by overcultivation > Synonyms: < very tired after the long day's work > weary suggests the cumulative effect of tiring until one is unable or unwilling to continue < I am wearied out — it is too much — I am but flesh and blood, and I must sleep — Edna S. V. Millay > < I am wearied of keeping up deceits — Louis Bromfield > fatigue suggests a tiring out by undue or excessive effort or strain that brings lassitude and enervation < the passengers drooped on the wooden benches, too fatigued even to get the cool drinks — Dan Jacobson > < I rested for the remainder of the daylight in a shrubbery, being, in my enfeebled condition, too fatigued to push on — H.G.Wells > exhaust is the strongest of these words in indicating utter draining or consuming of energy until one is without strength and energy < his bonus system would have speeded up labor in a way to exhaust men in a few years — M.R.Cohen > < capacity for abstract thinking was exhausted by this effort — A.M.Young > jade applies to causing loss of freshness, spirit, animation, or interest and becoming dull, languid, or listless through overexertion or overindulging < next morning I awoke jaded with the sense of having dreamed awful things all through the night — Max Beerbohm > < to minds jaded with debauches of over-emphasis it does contrive to give a thrill — C.E.Montague > fag suggests work or exertion to the point of sagging or drooping with weakness and weariness < with a gasp for breath said, “Lord, what a run. I'm fagged to death” — John Masefield > < the long march up the river had fagged them brutally; overtired, the rest periods did them little good and laboring on the trail was torture — Norman Mailer > tucker is a colloquial expression meaning to fatigue and leave without strength, breath, or resolution < all tuckered out from the long climb > II. 1. tires plural but singular in construction 2. III. 1. obsolete 2. 3. IV. < painted her face, and tired her head — 2 Kings 9:30 (Authorized Version) > V. 1. 2. a. b. c. VI. < the blacksmith … and his young helper were tiring a wagon wheel — Jackson Burgess > VII. archaic variant of tier I VIII. |
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