flexibility of meaning between 恋に破れる vs 血に飽きた


A more specific question regarding a [reply i got from a more long winded
question](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/62567/%E5%AF%BE%E8%B1%A1-intransitive-
verbs-vs-%E5%8E%9F%E5%9B%A0-intransitive-verbs-when-
taking-%E3%81%AB/62663#62663). Hopefully i can expand this to other
situations.

> Aくんも私と同じように、恋に破れて泣く日が来るんだろうか
>
> ～に破れる means either "to be defeated by ～" or "to be heartbroken regarding ～"
> depending on the context.
>
> A-kun just like me, is "broken due to" love, ....

compared something such as

血に飽きたときは、まぁ……これで代用できなくもないわね (as a vampire)

During times when i'm "tired of" blood, ...

If I were to rewrite this as:

> Aくんも私と同じように, 血に飽きて戦い続けてはいられない.
>
> A-kun just like me, has had enough due to the blood, ...

or is

"A-kun just like me, is tired of the blood, ..." the only way to read it?

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Similarly, why can't you read Aくんも私と同じように、恋に破れて泣く日が来るんだろうか as

"A-kun just like me, his love(relationship) is broken, ....

* * *

why or why not?

thank you




A set phrase is a set phrase. There is normally only one way to interpret it.
"Look at the school!" usually means observing the school itself, not observing
something else after going to the school, even though a dictionary clearly
says _at_ marks the place where the action happens. It's because _to look at
X_ is an English set phrase. By convention, the combination of _look_ and _at_
has a fixed meaning. Likewise, "I'm interested in the room" does not usually
mean I feel interested while I am sitting in the room.

X **に** 飽きる almost always translates to _to be tired **of** X_ or _to get
bored **with** X_. These are fixed set phrases with the shared fixed meaning.
You have to memorize them. Although the Japanese particle に and the English
prepositions _of/with_ have lots of functions, practically speaking, there is
no ambiguity here.

That being said, sometimes a combination of a verb and a particle has more
than one meaning depending on the noun used with it. The function of に in
暗闇に光る and the function of に in 汗に光る are different. The function of に in
ブラジルに敗れる and the function of に in サッカーの試合に敗れる are different. Again, this is
something you have to memorize.

