weary

英 ['w??r?] 美['w?ri]

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第三人稱單數:?wearies;過去式:?wearied;過去分詞:?wearied;現在分詞:?wearying;比較級:?wearier;最高級:?weariest;副詞:?wearily;名詞:?weariness;

weary 乏味的

來自古英語werig,疲勞的，悲慘的，進一步詞源不詳?；騺碜詗ear,磨損，引申詞義疲乏，乏味。

weary: weary: [OE] Weary is descended from a West Germanic *wōriga, whose other offspring have all died out. It was formed from the base *wōr-, which also produced Old English wōrian ‘wander, totter’ and Old Norse ?rr ‘mad’, but its ultimate ancestry is uncertain.
weary (adj.): Old English werig "tired, exhausted; miserable, sad," related to worian "to wander, totter," from Proto-Germanic *worigaz (cognates: Old Saxon worig "weary," Old High German wuorag "intoxicated"), of unknown origin.
weary (v.): Old English wergian "to be or become tired" (intransitive), gewergian "to exhaust, to make tired" (transitive), from the source of weary (adj.). Related: Wearied; wearying.

1. The weary walkers soothed their aching feet in the sea.: 走累了的人們把腳伸進海水中浸泡以緩解疼痛。