释义 |
wear someone down phrasal verb with wearverbuk /weər/ us /wer/wore | worn to make someone feel tired and less able to deal successfully with a situation: 使(某人)精疲力竭;磨垮(某人) Both sides are trying to wear the other down by being obstinate in the negotiations.双方在谈判中都不肯让步,试图耗尽对方的耐性。 All the stress and extra travel is beginning to wear him down.所有那一切压力和加班出差开始使他筋疲力尽。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Tired and making tired all in anti-fatigue at your worstidiom be dead on your feetidiom be fit/ready to dropidiom finish something off fit to dropidiom fragile frazzled gassed haggard knackered shell-shocked sleep deprivation sleep-deprived sleepily sleepiness sleepy strung out zonked |