Speaker 1: So check this out. When I opened the fridge to
grab something for lunch, I noticed a familiar but weird
looking package on the bottom shelf, and then I remembered
it was a package of spinach that I bought like
two weeks ago. And let me tell you, at this
point in time, that spinach looked pretty darn tired.
Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from
New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael
here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.
And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven ninety three, Tired,
tired of and tired from. At the beginning of this podcast,
I mentioned that the spinach I bought was looking pretty tired.
That word tired is one of those words in English
that has a number of different uses. And while you
may be familiar with the basic meaning of tired, which
is sleepy, did you know that tired can also be
used to mean that something is not fresh, or that
a machine is not in working condition. For today's English lesson,
we're going to look at those uses of tired, and
the phrase is tired of and tired from. Let's get
the ball rolling. First of all, the word tired itself
means sleepy, right. You know, at the end of a
long day you're tired. You need that sleep. So it's
like your body and your mind are not in good condition,
and you know your body needs to rest to refresh itself. Well,
with a similar image, we also use tired to talk
about a thing that is not in good condition, like
a machine, or something that's not fresh, like a vegetable,
Like Kenny is still driving his tired old car, and
I found a package of spinach in the fridge that
looked pretty tired. Yeah, if you have any limp veggies
in the fridge, you can say that they're tired. And
if the reason those veggies are limp is the fridge itself,
then you can say that the fridge is tired too. Next,
you can use tired of to show that something is
no longer interesting, or your bored of it, or you
just can't tolerate it any So being tired of something
has a pretty wide range of uses. Like Kenny said,
he does the same thing at work every day and
he's pretty tired of the routine. He's tired of it.
It's not interesting anymore. And to tell you the truth,
I'm tired of listening to pop music these days. It
all sounds the same and that's boring. Oh yeah, and
let me tell you about my neighbor. She's very messy
when it comes to putting out the trash and it
often ends up blowing onto my property. I've mentioned it
to her, but she doesn't do anything about it. I'm
so tired of her. She's annoying. I wish she would move.
On the other hand, tired from means exhausted because of
doing something like I'm tired from cleaning the house. I
spent the whole day cleaning and I'm really tired from that.
You can be tired from doing something physical like cleaning,
and you can be tired from doing something with your brain.
Like my cousin told me that she was tired from school.
It's final exam week. She's probably tired from all of
that studying. So let's put it all together. When you're
tired from something, it means you're exhausted, either physically exhausted
or mentally exhausted. When you're tired of something, you're bored
with that thing or just not interested in that anymore.
And then something that's been in the refrigerator too long
can be tired, and even the refrigerator itself or any
other machine can be tired. And that's all the ways
we use tired in everyday English conversation. Keep in mind
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