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Speaker 1: So check this out. When I opened the fridge to

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grab something for lunch, I noticed a familiar but weird

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looking package on the bottom shelf, and then I remembered

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it was a package of spinach that I bought like

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two weeks ago. And let me tell you, at this

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point in time, that spinach looked pretty darn tired.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven ninety three, Tired,

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tired of and tired from. At the beginning of this podcast,

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I mentioned that the spinach I bought was looking pretty tired.

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That word tired is one of those words in English

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that has a number of different uses. And while you

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may be familiar with the basic meaning of tired, which

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is sleepy, did you know that tired can also be

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used to mean that something is not fresh, or that

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a machine is not in working condition. For today's English lesson,

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we're going to look at those uses of tired, and

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the phrase is tired of and tired from. Let's get

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the ball rolling. First of all, the word tired itself

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means sleepy, right. You know, at the end of a

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long day you're tired. You need that sleep. So it's

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like your body and your mind are not in good condition,

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and you know your body needs to rest to refresh itself. Well,

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with a similar image, we also use tired to talk

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about a thing that is not in good condition, like

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a machine, or something that's not fresh, like a vegetable,

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Like Kenny is still driving his tired old car, and

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I found a package of spinach in the fridge that

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looked pretty tired. Yeah, if you have any limp veggies

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in the fridge, you can say that they're tired. And

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if the reason those veggies are limp is the fridge itself,

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then you can say that the fridge is tired too. Next,

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you can use tired of to show that something is

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no longer interesting, or your bored of it, or you

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just can't tolerate it any So being tired of something

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has a pretty wide range of uses. Like Kenny said,

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he does the same thing at work every day and

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he's pretty tired of the routine. He's tired of it.

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It's not interesting anymore. And to tell you the truth,

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I'm tired of listening to pop music these days. It

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all sounds the same and that's boring. Oh yeah, and

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let me tell you about my neighbor. She's very messy

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when it comes to putting out the trash and it

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often ends up blowing onto my property. I've mentioned it

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to her, but she doesn't do anything about it. I'm

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so tired of her. She's annoying. I wish she would move.

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On the other hand, tired from means exhausted because of

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doing something like I'm tired from cleaning the house. I

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spent the whole day cleaning and I'm really tired from that.

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You can be tired from doing something physical like cleaning,

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and you can be tired from doing something with your brain.

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Like my cousin told me that she was tired from school.

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It's final exam week. She's probably tired from all of

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that studying. So let's put it all together. When you're

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tired from something, it means you're exhausted, either physically exhausted

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or mentally exhausted. When you're tired of something, you're bored

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with that thing or just not interested in that anymore.

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And then something that's been in the refrigerator too long

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can be tired, and even the refrigerator itself or any

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other machine can be tired. And that's all the ways

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we use tired in everyday English conversation. Keep in mind

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the best way to remember vocabulary like this and any

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other word or phrase in English is to take that

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word or phrase, write it in a sentence that's true

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for you or true in your world, and then memorize

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podcast lesson seven ninety three. Remember, learning another language is

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