使筋疲力尽

Oddly, many of us willingly subject ourselves daily to factors that suck us dry.

奇怪的是，很多人自愿让自己受制于那些使人筋疲力尽的事物。

I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

好奇是我的天性，工作永远不会使我厌烦，而无所事事却能叫我筋疲力尽。

Even Mila and Oa are confined by the requirement to create enough to subsist; and this sometimes exhausts them.

甚至 Mila 和 Oa 也被创造维生的需要所限制，而这有时使他们筋疲力尽。

For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest.

宝剑磨损了它的剑鞘灵魂使胸膛筋疲力尽心必须为呼吸而停止连爱它自己也已休憩。

I am pedalling up hill against all kinds of opposition, and am almost worn out with the task.

我尽力向上而行，可是多少困难，拦阻，接踵而来，使我筋疲力尽。

War and politics in Afghanistan 阿富汗的战争与政治 McChrystal in the bull ring 斗牛圈中的麦克里斯托尔 Sep 3rd 2009 | KABUL From The Economist print edition NATO is running out of time in Afghanistan 北约在阿富汗耗尽了时间 CALL it the " Matador Doctrine ": a beast charges pointlessly at the bullfighter's cape, exhausting itself and suffering endless small wounds, until it succumbs to a weaker opponent.

斗牛毫无目的地冲向斗牛士的斗篷，结果使自己筋疲力尽，伤痕累累，最终不得不屈服于它弱小的对手，这便是&斗牛游戏&。驻阿富汗的北约指挥官麦克里斯托尔表示他的军队就像一头光有蛮力却极其愚蠢的牛，猛冲向暴乱分子。

Staring, eyes half-shut with exhaustion, he reached out to find the original source of irritation It was a piece of metal, thick with corrosion and perforated like worm-gnawed wood.

他筋疲力尽地半闭着眼睛，凝视着，他伸出手，去摸索着寻找，是什么东西刚才顶在他的背后，使他觉得那样难受。他摸到了一个金属片，上面生满了锈，而且有很多小孔，就象是被虫咬过的木头。

Mikhail Barclay de Tolly, his war minister, devised and implemented the strategy of drawing Napoleon deep inside Russia, away from his supply base, exhausting his army by defensive war and then attacking.

波格丹诺维奇？巴克莱？德？托利想出并实施了以下策略：诱使拿破仑深入俄国，远离他的供给基地，通过自卫战使他的军队筋疲力尽，然后再大举进攻。

Mikhail Barclay de Tolly, his war minister, devised and implemented the strategy of drawing Napoleon deep inside Russia, away from his supply base, exhausting his army by defensive war and then attacking.

亚历山大的陆军大臣米哈伊尔波格丹诺维奇巴克莱德托利想出并实施了以下策略：诱使拿破仑深入俄国，远离他的供给基地，通过自卫战使他的军队筋疲力尽，然后再大举进攻。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。