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    "Wearying" comes from the verb "weary". That verb works two ways: to become very tired ("the old horse wearied"), and to make someone very tired ("the long climb wearied us"). The -ing form you are looking at is normally used as an adjective, describing the thing that does the : a wearying day, a wearying argument, a wearying wait. The tiredness here is heavy and slow. It is not the good tiredness after exercise; it is the kind that reaches your spirit as well as your legs — you feel flat, and you have run out of willingness to keep going. That is because "weary" itself is a deeper word than "tired". Say "I am tired" and you need a nap. Say "I am weary" and something has been going on for far too long. The word is formal and quite literary. In ordinary Taiwanese-English conversation you would say "exhausting" or "draining", and both are safer choices. "Wearying" turns up in news writing, novels, and speeches: "a wearying round of meetings", "the wearying business of finding somewhere to live". It sits very close to "wearing" and "wearisome", and honestly the three overlap so much that even careful writers swap them. If you want a rough map: "wearying" points at tiredness, "wearing" at slow draining plus mild , "wearisome" at plus length. Also useful: the verb appears in the fixed phrase "never weary of" — "she never wearies of telling that story" — meaning she never gets tired of it.

    令人疲憊的、耗神的(累到心裡去的那種,不只是身體累;正式、偏書面,日常會說 exhausting 或 draining)

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組成weary(疲憊;使疲憊)+ -ing(造成這件事的)。weary 當動詞可以自己累,也可以把別人弄累;wearying 用的是「把人弄累」那一邊。

同家族的字

  • wearythe verb and adjective this is formed from
  • wearisomethe same root weary, with -some instead of -ing
  • wearinessthe noun from the same root: the state of being weary

原始詞典資料2 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。

wearyingnoun

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    The process of making weary.

    • Despite vigils and their wearyings, they love the stir and movement of that sunny period when my lady's diamonds emerge from their morocco cases, and every day brings home some new dress, bonnet, or cap, […]

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