You can picture a body or mind that has been working and now has run low on energy, the way a battery drains after long use — it wants to stop and rest. The other meanings keep this same picture but move it from the body to the feelings: not your muscles running low, but your patience or interest running low.
可以想成身體或腦袋一直在運轉，能量像電池一樣慢慢耗光了——它只想停下來休息。後面幾個意思都還是這張「能量被磨光」的畫面，只是從身體搬到了心情上：不是肌肉沒力，而是耐性或興趣被磨到沒了。
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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tiredadj[ˈtaɪ̯əd]
- 1
In need of some rest or sleep.
- The famous words of Emma Lazarus on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty read: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Until 1921 this was an accurate picture of our society. Under present law it would be appropriate to add: “as long as they come from Northern Europe, are not too tired or too poor or slightly ill, never stole a loaf of bread, never joined any questionable organization, and can document their activities for the past two years.”
- 2
Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
- I'm tired of this
- 3
Overused, cliché.
- a tired song
- 4
Old and worn.
- a tired-looking hotel room
- 5
derogatoryslangPlayed out, ineffectual; incompetent.
- They even went so far as to question whether indigenous peoples are 'peoples' in a tired attempt to deny the status of indigenous peoples in order to deny their right to self-determination.
- A tired attempt at a smile worked its way across Akechi's lips, lopsided and faint.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- tire
- tyred
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。