- 1不知疲倦地、不懈地、孜孜不倦地
If someone works tirelessly, they keep going for a long time without stopping and without to get tired. The word is an adverb, so it goes with a verb: you work tirelessly, campaign tirelessly, fight tirelessly. Two things are packed inside it. One is time: this is not one long afternoon, it is weeks, years, sometimes a whole life. The other is feeling: the person wants to do it. Nobody is forcing them. That is why we say a doctor worked tirelessly to save people, and it sounds like praise. It is almost always praise, in fact. You will meet it in news stories, in speeches, in the words people say at a funeral, in a boss thanking a team. It is a slightly formal, warm word — you would write it in a card, but in ordinary talk with a friend you would more likely say "she never stops" or "he works so hard". One honest thing though: nobody is really . The person does get tired. The word describes how it looks from outside — they kept going anyway. So it is a kind of gentle that everyone accepts. Because it carries admiration, it sounds odd with a bad action; "he worked tirelessly to ruin her life" is possible, but the speaker is being ironic on purpose, and a listener will hear that twist.
組成tire (變累) + -less (沒有) + -ly (副詞字尾) = tireless「不會累的」→ tirelessly「不會累地」。The -less part is the same one in useless, hopeless, careless: it means "without".
原始詞典資料1 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。
tirelesslyadv
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In a tireless manner; without tiring, flagging, or ceasing.
- The volunteers worked tirelessly to improve the content.
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。