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    Untiring is praise. It describes someone who keeps working at something hard, for a long time, without ever to run out of energy — and it says you admire them for it. Her untiring efforts to help refugees. His untiring work for the school. The word almost never appears without that warm tone; you would not call a criminal untiring in their thefts unless you were being ironic. It goes with a small set of nouns: efforts, work, support, energy, dedication, campaigning, service. Notice these are all about doing good for others or for a cause. That is the natural home of the word. It also often appears in thank-you speeches, , award citations, and news about charities — places where people are publicly grateful. Of course, real people do get tired. Untiring does not claim they never feel exhausted; it says they never stopped. There is a very close word, , which means the same thing and is more common in everyday English. If you learn only one, learn — but recognise untiring when you read it.

    不知疲倦的;不懈的(帶讚許語氣,多用於長期為他人或理想付出)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成un-(不)+ tire(使疲倦)+ -ing(形容詞用的現在分詞)。字面是『不會累的』。

同家族的字

  • tirelessthe more common synonym, built the same way from tire
  • tirethe base verb: to become or make tired
  • tiringsame word without un-, but flipped in meaning: something that makes YOU tired

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

untiringadj詞源 1

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    Not able to be tired; inexhaustible.

    • It was the time of low Nile when all the land is baked like a crust of bread, when the creaking of the shadoofs and the singing croak of the sakkia are heard the night long like untiring crickets with throats of frogs.
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    Unfailing; resolute.

    • A generation ago Chien-ch'ang was perhaps the least known part of all China to the outside world. About the middle of the thirteenth century the Mongol, Kublai Khan, acting as general of the forces of his brother, Genghis Khan, went through here to the conquest of Tali, then an independent kingdom in the southwest, and the untiring Venetian following in his train noted a few of the characteristics of Caindu, the name he gave both to the valley and the capital city.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。