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  1. 左傳·》:勇氣一鼓作氣彼竭我盈。』」形容力量衰竭耗盡士氣低落不能振作藝文類聚··巧藝·圍棋·圍棋〉:再衰三竭銳氣可取。」

weakening and close to exhaustion (idiom)​; in terminal decline, on one's last legs