| 单词 | tired |
| 例句 | tired adjective 1.•you're just tired from traveling:exhausted, worn out, weary, fatigued, dog-tired, dead beat, bone-tired, ready to drop, drained, zonked, wasted, enervated, jaded | informal done in, bushed, whipped, bagged, knocked out, wiped out, pooped, tuckered out. ANT energetic, wide awake, fresh. 2.•are you tired of having him here? fed up with, weary of, bored with/by, sick (to death) of | informal up to here with. 3.•tired jokes:hackneyed, overused, overworked, worn out, stale, clichéd, hoary, stock, stereotyped, predictable, unimaginative, unoriginal, uninspired, dull, boring, routine | informal old hat, corny. ANT lively, fresh.WORD NOTE tired Tired is the perfect example of how language can illuminate the murkier corners of the psyche, and raise delicate questions of etiquette, sensibility, and intention. Of course, the word has many obvious, simple, and appropriate usages. •After running the marathon and swimming the English Channel, I felt a bit tired. But in my opinion, it should never be used to convey one's sympathy with someone else's overtaxed physical or psychological state. •Oh you poor thing, you look so terribly tired! It is less likely to make the tired person feel like the recipient of tender solicitude than like the victim of some deforming and previously undiagnosed wasting illness. Told we look tired, we are less apt to feel that our hard work is being appreciated than that we should immediately run to the mirror to check out the damage—and to wonder, with good reason, if the person whose sympathies we have aroused was actually expressing some sort of covert hostility. — FPConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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