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第三人稱單數(shù):?tires;過去式:?tired;過去分詞:?tired;現(xiàn)在分詞:?tiring;

tire.............太餓（餓的渾身沒勁）.....（使）疲倦
2. ti-re, 兩部分分別發(fā)音，其諧音為“太累”。
3. 諧音“胎兒”-----“輪胎兒”的簡稱，此“胎兒”非懷孕的“胎兒”。
4. tyre <===> tire.

tire 使疲勞，疲倦

來自古英語 teorian,耗盡，停止，厭倦，來自 PIE*deu-s,*deu,缺乏，缺少，滯后，由該 PIE 詞衍生前綴 dys-,壞的，差的，如 dysfunction,dyslexia.引申詞義使疲勞，厭倦。

tire 輪胎

來自中古英語 tire,裝備，縮寫自 attire,裝備，準(zhǔn)備，盛裝，詞源同 tier,tirade.該詞原指馬車或戰(zhàn)車輪子的外邊緣鐵板，后引申詞義輪胎。

tire: tire: [OE] Tire is something of a mystery word. It was relatively common in the Old English period (where it originally meant ‘fail, cease, come to an end’ – ‘become weary’ is a secondary development), but then it disappeared, to return in the 14th century. Nor is anything certain known about its pre-English ancestry, although it may go back to the Indo-European base *deus- (source also of Sanskrit dosa- ‘fault, lack’). The use of the past participle tired as an adjective dates from the late 14th century.
tire (v.1): "to weary," also "to become weary," Old English teorian (Kentish tiorian) "to fail, cease; become weary; make weary, exhaust," of uncertain origin; according to Watkins possibly from a PIE *deu-s-, suffixed form of root *deu- (1) "to lack, be wanting." Related: Tired; tiring.
tire (n.): late 15c., "iron plates forming a rim of a carriage wheel," probably from tire "equipment, dress, covering" (c. 1300), a shortened form of attire (n.). The notion is of the tire as the dressing of the wheel. The original spelling was tyre, which had shifted to tire in 17c.-18c., but since early 19c. tyre has been revived in Great Britain and become standard there. Rubber ones, for bicycles (later automobiles) are from 1877. A tire-iron originally was one of the iron plates; as a device for separating a tire from a wheel, by 1909.
tire (v.2): "furnish with a tire," 1899, from tire (n.).

1. Sooner or later he may tire of constantly putting himself last.: 遲早他會厭倦總是把自己排在最后。

3. He felt he would never tire of international cricket.: 他認(rèn)為自己永遠不會對國際板球賽生厭。