人困馬乏

人困马乏
rénkùnmǎfá
  1. riders tired and horses weary (idiom)
  2. worn out
  3. exhausted
  4. spent
  5. fatigued

CEDICT

人和馬都疲倦困乏。形容因奔走而勞乏困倦。

重編國語辭典

Homographs

人困馬乏 rénkùn-mǎfá

Entry Composition

1 人 rén person; people

classifiers: 個, 位
=2 困 kùn
  1. to trap
  2. to surround
  3. hard-pressed
  4. stranded
  5. destitute
=2 困 kùn
  1. sleepy
  2. tired
3 馬 mǎ
  1. horse
  2. horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess
  3. knight in Western chess

classifier: 匹
4 乏 fá
  1. short of
  2. tired

Related entries

倦怠 juàndài
  1. worn out
  2. exhausted
  3. dispirited
不要覺得真誠的愛必需驚天動地。我們需要的，是不會倦怠的愛。

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Source: Tatoeba

廢舊 fèijiù
  1. worn out
  2. old-fashioned and dilapidated
勞倦 láojuàn
  1. exhausted
  2. worn out
挼 ruá
  1. (dialect) (of paper or cloth) wrinkled; crumpled
  2. (dialect) (of clothes) worn out
  3. (dialect) (of a fire's intensity, one's physical condition etc) weak; feeble
  4. (dialect) (of skill) poor; inferior
勞累 láolèi
  1. tired
  2. exhausted
  3. worn out
  4. to toil
当亚历克斯·弗格森看到自己的球员劳累时，他总是叫替补上场。

When Sir Alex Ferguson saw that his players were getting tired, he always substituted them.

Source: Tatoeba

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