喜樂美語
  1. 1aB1/ˈtaɪrɪŋ/ · /ˈtaɪərɪŋ/累人的；令人疲倦的

    Making you feel that you want to sleep or rest. A tiring day, job, or journey uses up your energy, so afterwards you want to stop and take a break.

    示範例句 · Example

    Sports day was fun, but running all those races was tiring.

    逐字運動會很好玩，但是跑那些比賽很累人。

    tiring 講的是「那件事把你的力氣用掉了」，主詞是那一天、那趟路、那份工作或那個活動，不是人的感覺。-ing 可以想成「這件事一直往外送出疲累」，所以說 The journey was tiring；-ed 的 tired 就像「疲累落到你身上」，所以說 I was tired。中文兩句都講「很累」，這是最容易混的地方。另外 tiring 只在說「耗體力／耗精神」，跟好不好玩沒有關係——一場很累人的球賽還是可以很開心。

    常見搭配

    • a tiring day

      累人的一天

      a day that uses up your energy

      We have all had a long, tiring day — let's eat and go to bed.

    • very / extremely tiring

      非常累人

      using up a lot of your energy

      Long periods of continuous study are very tiring.

    • tiring work

      累人的工作

      work that uses up your energy

      Carrying the boxes upstairs was tiring work, so they took turns.

    • a tiring journey

      累人的旅程

      a trip that leaves you wanting to rest

      After a tiring journey, Ren fell asleep before dinner.

    • find something tiring

      覺得某件事很累人

      to feel that something uses up your energy

      Aisha finds early morning practice tiring, so she sleeps early.

    • tiring but worth it

      雖然累但值得

      hard on your energy, but still a good thing to have done

      Cleaning the whole classroom was tiring but worth it.

    意思相反

    relaxingrestfulrefreshingeasyenergizing

core核心畫面

Think of your energy as a tank you start the day with. Something 'tiring' is whatever draws that tank down — a long walk, a full day of meetings, a night flight. The word describes the thing doing the draining, not the person who feels drained: the day is tiring, and you are tired.

可以想成你身上有一格「電量」，早上出門是滿的。tiring 講的就是那個把電消耗掉的東西——走很久的路、開一整天的會、坐夜間的飛機。要注意方向：被消耗的人是 tired，做出消耗的那件事才是 tiring，所以會說 a tiring day、a tiring journey，而不會說 I am tiring。

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同家族的字

比較級 more tiring最高級 most tiring

意思相反

relaxingrestfulrefreshingeasyenergizing

原始詞典資料4 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。

tiringnoun/ˈtaɪəɹɪŋ/

  • 1

    The action of tiring.

  • 2

    falconryhobbieshuntingBits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.

tiringadj/ˈtaɪəɹɪŋ/

  • 1

    That tires or tire.

    • Carrying my bags up four flights of stairs is very tiring.

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