Word · Frequency #10432
fag
/fæg/
verb
苦干；拼命工作
work hard
- 1.
act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
在英国公立学校为高年级学生服务
- 2.
work hard
努力工作
- 3.
exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
因过度使用或巨大压力而疲惫
使精疲力竭；使疲惫；做杂役；当侍从；在英国公立学校为高年级学生服务；努力工作；因过度使用或巨大压力而疲惫
In use
He fagged for a senior boy during his first year at the boarding school.
The new students are fagging for the prefects every evening.
Tom fags for a sixth-former and has to polish his shoes.
Verb forms
base fag · third person fags · -ing fagging · past fagged · past participle fagged
规则动词，过去式和过去分词加-ed，现在分词加-ing。
Connections
Collocations
- fag away
- 拼命工作；苦干
- She fagged away at her thesis all weekend.她整个周末都在拼命赶论文。
- fag out
- 使精疲力竭；使疲惫不堪
- The long hike really fagged me out.那次长途徒步真的把我累坏了。
- fag for
- 为（高年级学生）当杂役
- In the old days, new boys had to fag for the prefects.在过去，新生不得不为级长当杂役。
- be fagged out
- 累极了；精疲力竭
- After the match, the players were completely fagged out.比赛结束后，球员们完全精疲力竭了。
Idioms & figurative uses
- fagged out
- 精疲力竭的；累垮的After the long hike, I was totally fagged out.长途跋涉后，我彻底累垮了。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 fag 想成“乏”+“干”：埋头苦干到人发乏、精疲力竭——就像旧时英校里低年级生被高年级生使唤着干活，干到累垮。
Context & Register
语域：informal 常见场景：informal British speech、historical UK boarding-school settings 该词条表示‘苦干’或‘使疲惫’时，多用于非正式英式英语；表示‘为高年级学生当杂役’时，则主要用于英国公学语境。
Pronunciation & Spelling
这些词均以 -ag 结尾，发音为 /æɡ/，与 fag（/fæɡ/）押韵。注意：fig（/fɪɡ/）和 fog（/fɒɡ/）看起来相似，但读音不同。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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