Definition
筋疲力尽 is a four-character idiom (chengyu) meaning 'extremely tired, completely exhausted'. The literal picture is 'muscles weary, strength used up' — it describes total physical or mental exhaustion after hard work, exercise, or stress. You use it as a predicate (他累得筋疲力尽) or stative verb (我筋疲力尽了). It is a set expression and does not undergo the splitting behavior of separable verbs.
f.e.
extremely tiredexhaustedspent (idiomatic)
Examples
- ，筋疲力尽。Gōngzuò le yì tiān, tā gǎndào jīn pí lì jǐn.After a day of work, he felt completely exhausted.
- 筋疲力尽。Zhè cì mǎlāsōng bǐsài ràng suǒyǒu xuǎnshǒu dōu jīn pí lì jǐn.This marathon race left all the runners totally exhausted.
- ，筋疲力尽。Wèile wánchéng zhège xiàngmù, wǒmen dàjiā dōu jīn pí lì jǐn le.To finish this project, all of us were extremely tired.
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