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| Processed by: | richwarm (2019-01-01 23:00:50 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 63497 - submitted by 'miles' >> Adjective "fatigued" is not natural English and is probably cribbed from a gloss in a Chinese dictionary. If you want an adjective, it should be tired, weary, exhausted. ("Fatigue" would be acceptable as a noun.) The Chinese synonyms on Baidu https://hanyu.baidu.com/zici/s?wd=疲困&query=疲困 are all adjectives and include the transferred meaning of feeble economic performance. ------------------------------------ Editor: > Adjective "fatigued" is not natural English That's not true. It's quite natural, and it's easy to find examples of its use. In the Oxford dictionary, for example, there are 18 examples such as "If you give up easily when you're fatigued, we'll notice that, too." To see all of their examples, go to https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fatigue and in the "verb" section, click "+ More example sentences". "enfeebled" has connotations of permanent or terminal weakness (as in "My elderly brain is too enfeebled to work it out." - example from Oxford Dictionaries). As far as I can see, that's not appropriate for 疲困. |
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- 疲困 疲困 [pi2 kun4] /fatigued/ # + 疲困 疲困 [pi2 kun4] /tired/enfeebled/ + 疲困 疲困 [pi2 kun4] /(literary) tired/fatigued/(economics) weak/sluggish/ |