Vegetable Idiom

ဒီတစ္ပတ္ေတာ့ BBC World Service မွာတင္ထားတဲ့ Vegetable Idiom ေလးကို ကူးျပီးေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1132_videoenglish_10/ မွာေတာ့ Video လဲ တင္ထားတာ ရွိပါတယ္။ အရင္ အပတ္လုိပဲ ဘာသာမျပန္ပဲ တင္ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ အခက္အခဲမရွိေလာက္ပါဘူးလုိ ့ ေမ်ွာ္လင့္ပါတယ္။

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In this episode, The Teacher introduces you to three idiomatic phrases connected with vegetables.

1. It's a hot potato

2. A carrot and stick

3. Like two peas in a pod

Hello, I’m a very interesting and intelligent man. And today, this carrot, these peas and this potato are going to be teaching you some idioms in English.

I bet you’ve never been taught by some vegetables before.

Ah, my boss.

He’s not very happy with me at the moment.

He found out I’m giving you these secret video classes and he wants me to stop.

He thinks these lessons are just… silly.

It’s a hot potato.

In English, if there’s a delicate issue and people can’t agree we call it a ‘hot potato’.

It’s a hot potato.

But he has offered me a carrot. Well, not a real one.

If I stop the classes he’ll buy me a framed picture of Mr Bean.

But if I don’t, he’ll fire me and stop the classes!

It’s a carrot and stick.

In English, if someone tries to persuade us to do something using an incentive and a threat, we call it a ‘carrot and stick’.

A carrot and stick.

Have you met my brother?

He’s not very interesting or intelligent, but he does look very similar to me.

Yes, we’re like two peas in a pod.

In English, if two people look very similar we can say they’re like two peas in a pod.

Like two peas in a pod.

Fruit Idioms

ဒီတစ္ပတ္မွာ အေျပာင္းအလဲေလးျဖစ္ေအာင္၊ ျပီးေတာ့ အဓိပၸာယ္ မတူေသာ စကားလုံးမ်ား ကို ပ်င္းမ်ားပ်င္းေနသလားလုိ ့ BBC World Service မွာတင္ထားတဲ့ Fruit Idiom ေလးကို ကူးျပီး ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1110_videoenglish_14/ မွာေတာ့ Video လဲ တင္ထားတာ ရွိပါတယ္။အဂၤလိပ္လုိ သင္ထားတာ၊ ေျပာထားတာကို အေတြ ့အၾကဳံရေအာင္ သူ ့အတုိင္းပဲ ဘာသာမျပန္ပဲ တင္ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ အခက္အခဲမရွိေလာက္ပါဘူးလုိ ့ ေမ်ွာ္လင့္ပါတယ္။

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In this episode, The Teacher introduces you to three idiomatic phrases connected with fruit.

1. To go bananas

2. It's a case of sour grapes

3. A second bite of the cherry

Hello, I’m a very interesting and intelligent man. And today, these bananas, this cherry, these grapes and I will be teaching you some English idioms.

I bet you’ve never been taught by some fruit before.

Now as we know, all sensible fruit is round and green, or red, or orange. But not this fellow.

No, the banana is long and yellow and he bends.

What a crazy fruit!

And what’s more… monkeys eat them. And we all know what monkeys are like.

In English, if someone is very emotional and starts shouting and behaving in a crazy way, we say he’s gone bananas.

To go bananas.

Like me when I scored the winning goal in the last minute of that cup final. I went completely bananas.

Oh really, well, that’s wonderful for you. Yes, but you know there’s more to life than money – it doesn’t really interest me at all.

That was my boss. He’s won the lottery – twenty million pounds!

I told him I wasn’t really interested in money, so I’m not jealous at all…but it’s not true. I wish I was rich!

Ah, thank you.

Yes, it’s a case of sour grapes.

In English, if somebody pretends not to be impressed by something because they are jealous, we say it’s a case of sour grapes.

It’s a case of sour grapes.

At least now he's so rich, perhaps he'll leave.

Mmm, cherries.

Did you know I could juggle?

Hang on, give me a second bite of the cherry.

In English, if we try to do something a second time because we failed at first, we call it a second bite of the cherry.

A second bite of the cherry.

OK, here I go…

How about a third bite of the cherry? What do you mean there are no cherries left?

အဓိပၸာယ္ မတူေသာ စကားလုံးမ်ား-၂

ဒီတစ္ပတ္မွာေတာ့ carry ရဲ့ အတြဲလုိက္ အဓိပၸာယ္ ေတြကို တင္ဆက္ေပးထားပါတယ္။ ေနာက္တစ္ပတ္မွ ေနာက္အသစ္ တစ္ခု တက္တာေပါ့။

1) (be/get) carry (somebody) away - စိတ္လွဳပ္ရွား၍ စိတ္မထိန္းႏိုင္ျဖစ္သည္

Eg.The crowd were carried away by his passionate speech.

သူ ့ရဲ့အားပါလွတဲ့ မိန္ ့ခြန္းက လူထုၾကီးကို စိတ္လွဳပ္ရွားေစတယ္။

2) carry (something) off ခက္ခဲတဲ့ ကိစၥကို လုပ္ေဆာင္ရာတြင္ ေအာင္ျမင္သည္

Eg. She was nervous about giving a talk to her colleagues, but she carried it off very well.

သူမက သူ ့ရဲ့လုပ္ေဖာ္ကိုင္ဖက္ေတြကို မိန္ ့ခြန္းေျပာဖုိ ့စိတ္ပူခဲ့ေပမယ့္ ေကာင္းေကာင္း ေအာင္ျမင္ေအာင္လုပ္ႏိုင္ခဲ့တယ္။

3) carry (something) on (CONTINUE) ဆက္လက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္၊ ဆက္လက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေစသည္

Eg. Let's carry on this discussion at some other time.

ဒီေဆြးေႏြးခ်က္ ကုိ ေနာက္တစ္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္မွာ ဆက္ၾကတာေပါ့။

Eg. Sorry to interrupt, do carry on (with what you were saying).

ျဖတ္ေျပာရတာ အားနာပါတယ္။ (မင္းတုိ ့ေျပာေနတာ) ဆက္ေျပာပါ။

4) carry on (BEHAVE) စိတ္လွဳပ္ရွား၊ စိတ္အားတက္ၾကြ ေနသည္

Eg. The children have been carrying on all day.

ကေလးေတြက တေန ့လုံး စိတ္လွဳပ္ရွား တက္ၾကြေနတယ္။

5) carry on (HAVE SEX) ညားေနသည္

Eg. Is it true that Rachel and Marcus have been carrying on (with each other) ?

Rachel နဲ ့ Marcus ညားေနၾကတယ္ဆုိတာ ဟုတ္လား။

6) carry (something) out (တာ၀န္ခံထားသည္ ့အရာ၊ တာ၀န္ေပးထားသည္ ့အရာ) လုပ္၊ ျပီး သည္

Eg. Don't blame me, I'm only carrying out my orders/instructions.

ငါ့ကို အျပစ္မတင္ပါနဲ ့။ ငါကေတာ့ ငါ့တာ၀န္ရွိတဲ့အတိုင္း လုပ္ရတာ။

7) carry (something) over (DO LATER) အခ်ိန္ေရႊ ့သည္

Eg. The performance has had to be carried over to/till next week because the repairs to the theatre aren't finished yet.

ဇာတ္ရုံၾကီး ျပင္ဆင္ေနတာ မျပီးေသးလုိ ့ကပြဲကို ေနာင္အပတ္ထိ အခ်ိန္ေရႊ ့ထားတယ္။

8) carry (something) over (EXIST/AFFECT) အေျခအေနတစ္ခုမွ အျဖစ္အပ်က္ကို ေနာက္အေျခအေန တစ္ခုတြင္ ပါ၀င္ပတ္သက္ခြင့္မျပဳ

Eg. I try not to let my problems at work carry over into my private life.

ငါ ရုံးကျပႆနာေတြကို ငါ ့ကိုယ္ေရးကိုယ္တာဘ၀ထဲ သယ္မလာဖုိ ့ၾကိဳးစားတယ္။

9) carry (somebody) through (sth) (HELP) ခက္ခဲေသာ အေျခအေနကို ရင္ဆိုင္ႏုိင္ေအာင္ အားေပးသည္။

Eg.The soldiers' courage carried them through.

စစ္သားေတြရဲ့သတိၱက သူတုိ ့ကို ရင္ဆုိင္ႏိုင္ေစတယ္။

10)carry(something) through (COMPLETE) ကိစၥတစ္ခု ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ ျပီးဆုံးသည္

Eg. It is doubtful whether it will be possible to carry through the education reforms as quickly as the government hopes.

ပညာေရးကို ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲဖုိ ့ကိစၥေအာင္ျမင္ဖုိ ့ အစိုးရ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားသလုိ ျမန္ျမန္ျပီး ႏိုင္မလား ဆုိတာကေတာ့ သံသယျဖစ္ဖြယ္ပါပဲ။

11)carry the can မေအာင္ျမင္၊ မွားယြင္းေသာ ကိစၥကို ေခါင္းခံသည္။

Eg. As usual, I was left to carry the can.

ထုံးစံအတုိင္း ငါပဲ ေခါင္းခံလုိက္ပါမယ္။

12)carry a torch for (somebody) ခ်စ္ၾကိဳက္သည္

Eg. Terry has been carrying a torch for Liz for years, but she seems not to notice.

Terry က Liz ကို ၾကိဳက္ေနတာ ၾကာလွေပမယ္ ့ Liz ကေတာ့ သိေတာင္သိပုံမရဘူး။

13)carry/take coals to Newcastle -ေပါမ်ားေသာေဒသသို ့သြား၍ပစၥည္းေထာက္ပံ့ျခင္း

Eg. Exporting pine to Scandinavia seems a bit like carrying coals to Newcastle.

စကင္ဒီေနးဗီးယားကို ထင္းရွဴးပင္ပုိ ့မယ္ဆိုတာကေတာ့ နယူးကာဆယ္ကို မီးေသြးပို ့ (တရုပ္ျပည္ကို အပ္ေရာင္းသြား) သလုိ ျဖစ္ေနမွာေပါ့။

14)as fast as your legs would carry you ျမန္ႏုိင္သမွ်ျမန္ျမန္

15)fetch and carry for (somebody) ေတာက္တုိမယ္ရလုပ္ေပးရသည္

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အဓိပၸာယ္ မတူေသာ စကားလုံးမ်ား-၁

စကားလုံးတစ္လုံးမွာ အဓိပၸာယ္ေတြ အမ်ားၾကီး ရွွိႏိုင္တယ္ဆုိတာ သိၾကပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ မေလ့လာမိၾကပါဘူး။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ တစ္ခါတေလ သတင္းစာေတြ၊၀တၳဳေတြ ဖတ္ရင္ ကိုယ္သိတဲ့ စကားလုံးေတြနဲ ့ေရးထားေပမယ့္လည္း သေဘာမေပါက္တာ၊ နားမလည္တာ ျဖစ္တတ္ပါတယ္။

အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ online Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary ကေန ရင္းႏွီးျပီးသား စကားလုံးေတြ ထဲမွ အဓိပၸာယ္ေတြ အမ်ားၾကီးရွိတဲ့ စကားလုံး အခ်ဳိ ့ကို ထုတ္ႏုတ္တင္ဆက္သြားဖုိ ့စိတ္ကူးထားပါတယ္။

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ဒီတစ္ပတ္မွာေတာ့ carry အေၾကာင္းကို တင္ဆက္ထားပါတယ္။ တစ္လုံးထဲရဲ ့ အဓိပၸာယ္ ေတြပါ။ အတြဲလုိက္အဓိပၸာယ္ ေတြ က်န္ပါေသးတယ္။ ေနာက္တစ္ပတ္မွ ဆက္လက္တင္ျပပါမယ္။

1) carry (TRANSPORT) သယ္ေဆာင္သည္

Eg.Would you like me to carry your bag for you?

(ခင္ဗ်ားရဲ ့အိတ္ကို ကြ်န္ေတာ္ သယ္ေပးရမလား။)

2) carry (HAVE WITH YOU) ပါရွိသည္

Eg. Police officers in Britain do not usually carry guns.

(အဂၤလန္ရဲေတြမွာ ေသနတ္ပါေလ့ မရွိပါဘူး။)

3) carry (SPREAD) ပ်ံ ့ႏွံ ့သည္

Eg. Malaria is a disease carried by mosquitoes.

(ငွက္ဖ်ားေရာဂါဆိုတာ ျခင္ေၾကာင့္ ပ်ံ ့ႏွံ ့ေသာေရာဂါျဖစ္တယ္။)

4) carry (HAVE) (အစိတ္အပိုင္းတစ္ခု အျဖစ္) ပါရွိသည္

Eg. Our cars carry a twelve-month guarantee.

(ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ ့ရဲ ့ကားေတြမွာ တစ္ႏွစ္အာမခံ ပါရွိပါတယ္။)

5) carry (SUPPORT WEIGHT) ေထာက္ကန္ေပးသည္

Eg. The weight of the cathedral roof is carried by two rows of pillars.

(ဒီဘုရားရွိခိုးေက်ာင္းၾကီး ေခါင္မုိးရဲ့ အေလးခ်ိန္ကို တုိင္ၾကီးႏွစ္ခုက ေထာက္ကန္ေပးထားတယ္။)

6) carry (KEEP IN OPERATION) ဆက္လက္ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္သည္

Eg. We can no longer afford to carry people who don't work as hard as they should.

(ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ ့အေနနဲ ့ ကိုယ္က်ိဳးစားသင့္သေလာက္ မက်ိဳးစားတဲ့ သူေတြနဲ ့ ဆက္လက္ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ဖုိ ့ မတတ္ႏိုင္ေတာ့ပါဘူး။)

7) carry (WIN) အားေပးမွဳ၊ ေထာက္ခံမွဳ၊ နားလည္မွဳ ရသည္

Eg. The management's plans to reorganize the company won't succeed unless they can carry the workforce with them.

(ဒီ ကန္ပနီ ကို ျပန္လည္ျပီး ဖြဲ ့စည္းဖုိ ့ဆုိတာကေတာ့ ၀န္ထမ္းေတြရဲ့ ေထာက္ခံမွဳမရင္ မေအာင္ျမင္ႏိုင္ပါဘူး။)

8) carry (APPROVE) (ဆႏၵမဲေပးမွဳတြင္) ေထာက္ခံမွဳရသည္

Eg. The proposal was carried by 210 votes to 160.

(ဒီအဆိုတင္သြင္းမွဳဟာ ၂၁၀မဲမွာ ၁၆၀မဲျဖင့္ ေထာက္ခံမွဳရခဲ့ပါတယ္။)

9) carry (BROADCAST) (သတင္းစာ၊ေရဒီယို၊တီဗြီ တို ့တြင္) သတင္းပါ၀င္သည္

Eg. This morning's newspapers all carry the same story on their front page.

(ဒီေန ့မနက္သတင္းစာေတြမွာ သတင္းတစ္ပုဒ္ထဲကိုပဲ မ်က္ႏွာဖုံးသတင္း အျဖစ္ တင္ထားတယ္။)

10)carry (REACH) ေရာက္ရွိ၊ သြားသည္

Eg. The sound of the explosion carried for miles

(ေပါက္ကြဲသံဟာ မိုင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာအထိေရာက္ရွိသြားသည္။ )

11)carry (DEVELOP) ဖြံ ့ျဖိဳးတုိးတက္၊ ဆက္လက္ေဆာင္ရြက္သည္

Eg We must end here, but we can carry today's discussion forward at our next meeting.

(ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ ့အခု ဒီမွာရပ္မယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ မနက္ျဖန္ အစည္းအေ၀းက်ရင္ ဆက္လက္ျပီး ေဆြးေႏြးႏိုင္တယ္။)

12)carry (MATHEMATICS) (သခ်ာၤေပါင္းျခင္းတြင္) ေရွ ့တစ္တုိးသည္

13)carry (BE PREGNANT WITH) ကိုယ္၀န္ လြယ္ထား၊ ရွိသည္

Eg. It was quite a shock to learn that she was carrying twins.

(သူမ အမႊာေလး ကုိယ္၀န္လြယ္ထားတယ္ဆုိတာ သိလုိက္ရတာ ေတာ္ေတာ္တုန္လွဳပ္သြားသည္။ )

14)carry yourself (MOVE BODY) ခႏၶာကိုယ္ကို လွဳပ္ရွားသည္

Eg. You can tell she's a dancer from the way that she carries herself.

(သူမဟာ dancer (ကေခ်သည္၊ မင္းသမီး) ဆိုတာ သူ ့ခႏၶာကုိယ္လွဳပ္ရွားပုံကို ၾကည့္ျပီး ေျပာႏိုင္တယ္။)

15)cash and carry (ပြဲရုံကဲ့သို ့) လက္ကားေရာင္းသည့္ဆိုင္

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