tire
- n. 轮胎
- n. 头饰
- v. 使疲倦, 使厌烦
- v. 打扮
- Definition
- n. a rubber ring fitted round a wheel
- n. a decorative headpiece
- v. to make someone feel tired or bored
- v. to dress up
- Example
- One of the car's tires went flat on the highway.
- 汽车的一个轮胎在高速公路上爆了。
Synonyms & Differences 近义词辨析
Compared meaning: to make someone feel tired (verb).
比较义项：使某人感到疲劳（动词）。
- fatigue
More formal and technical than 'tire'; typically used in the passive voice (be fatigued by) to describe exhaustion from prolonged physical or mental exertion, often in military, medical or scientific writing.
比 tire 更正式、更专业，常用被动语态（被……弄得疲惫），多用于描述长时间体力或脑力消耗导致的疲劳，常见于军事、医学或科技类文本中。
The recruits were fatigued by the long forced march through the mountains.
新兵们因穿越山区的长途急行军而疲惫不堪。
- tire 本词
The everyday, common verb for making someone feel tired; more informal than 'fatigue' and often appears in the phrasal pattern 'tire someone out'.
是日常口语中最常见的说法，表示使人感到疲劳，语域比 fatigue 更随意，常出现在“tire ... out”这样的口语搭配中。
Climbing five flights of stairs really tired her out today.
今天爬五段楼梯真的让她累坏了。
Fatigue and tire both mean to make someone feel tired. Fatigue is more formal, often used in the passive voice, describing exhaustion from long physical or mental effort, common in medical or scientific writing. Tire is the everyday word, often in "tire someone out".
这两个词在这个意义上都表示“使人感到疲劳”，但语体和场合不同：fatigue 较为正式、书面化，常用于长时间体力或脑力消耗的语境，也常用被动语态；tire 则是日常口语中最常用的说法，使用范围更广，语气更随意。这里不比较 fatigue 常见的名词义项（疲劳）以及 tire 的“使人厌烦”义项。