He hears a noise at the window. Here is the beginning of the poem: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded,nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping -- rapping at my chamber door.

VOA: special.2010.10.31

I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about except that it had something to do with the miserably weary splitting up and my feeling that everything was dead.

我刚熬过一场重大疾病，具体就不说了,只是这与我和妻子不幸的分离有些关系,我感觉万物都没有了生机。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Another book, another book cover, The Weary Blues, by Langston Hughes, 1926.

另一本书，另一本的封面，这是1926年由兰斯顿，休斯所著的《萎靡的布鲁斯》

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

After eight years, McChrystal says the Afghan people are growing weary, and the forces need to show results soon.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

It's when I'm weary of considerations And life is too much like a pathless wood ; Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open.

那是每逢我厌倦于操心世事,而人生太像一片没有小径的森林,在里面摸索，一头撞在蛛网上，只感到验上又热辣，又痒痒，忽然，一根嫩枝迎面打来,那一只给打中了的眼睛疼得直掉泪。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And,that is why this campaign is so important." But that view is out of step with many in war-weary Britain.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02