jaded
うんざりした
解説 Definition
jaded は jade（疲れさせる、飽き飽きさせる）の過去形・過去分詞です。現在では形容詞的に、経験しすぎて新鮮さを感じず、うんざりした状態を表すことが多いです。
Jaded is the past-tense and past-participle form of jade, but it is now used mainly as an adjective for someone who has become tired, bored, or unenthusiastic after too much experience of the same thing.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 jade「疲れさせる、飽き飽きさせる」に -d を付けた過去形・過去分詞で、語尾は /ɪd/。もとは酷使されて疲れた馬を表す語と関係し、同じ経験や空約束が重なって新鮮な反応を失った状態を思い描く。単なる tired より、経験しすぎた結果の冷めた気分を表すと覚える。
Think of something being worn down through repeated use. Jaded is historically the past participle of jade, “to tire or exhaust,” and its ending is pronounced /ɪd/. In current English, it is most often an adjective rather than an ordinary past-tense verb. A jaded reporter has seen so much that surprising news no longer feels surprising; a person jaded by empty promises has heard them too often to believe them. This is more specific than tired: it suggests lost freshness, enthusiasm, or trust caused by excessive experience. Learn the patterns feel jaded, a jaded observer, and be jaded by something.
例文
After years in the same job, he felt jaded.
同じ仕事を何年も続けて、彼はうんざりしていました。
The jaded reporter showed little surprise at the news.
そのうんざりした様子の記者は、そのニュースにほとんど驚きませんでした。
She was jaded by too many empty promises.
彼女はあまりに多くの空約束にうんざりしていました。
jaded の類義語・関連語
jaded の語源・成り立ち Etymology
jaded は jade「疲れさせる、すり減らす」の過去分詞形です。jade は17世紀英語で「くたびれた馬」を指した語に由来し、酷使されて馬がへたるイメージから、人が「飽きてうんざりした」という意味になりました。関連語は jade。
Jaded is formed from the verb jade and the past-participle ending -ed. The verb is related to an older noun jade that referred to a worn-out or inferior horse. From the image of an animal exhausted by hard use, jade developed the meaning “to tire or wear out.” Its participle jaded later acquired the common figurative sense of being bored, cynical, or unenthusiastic through excessive experience.
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