Showing posts with label Idioms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Idioms. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2008

အီဒီယမ္သင္ခန္းစာ(၄)

To take advantage
To make use of (someone or something) in such a way as to benefit oneself

တစ္စံုတစ္ခု (သို႔) တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ကိုအသံုးျပဳ၍ မိမိအတြက္ အက်ိဳးအျမတ္ရွိေအာင္ ျပဳလုပ္ျခင္း
e.g., She was so kind and generous that people tended to take advantage of her.
လူေတြက သူမ၏ ၾကင္နာတတ္မႈ၊ သေဘာေကာင္းမႈ အေပၚတြင္ အျမဲ အျမတ္ထုတ္ဖို႔ အားထုတ္ၾကံစည္ေနသည္။

To advantage
So that the good points are easily seen:
ေကာင္းကြက္မ်ားကို အလြယ္တကူ ျမင္သာျခင္း။
e.g., The evening suit showed off his tall elegant figure to advantage.
ညေနခင္း ၀တ္စံုက သူရဲ႔ ျမင္႔မားတဲ႔ အရပ္နဲ႔ ရည္မြန္တဲ႔ ပံုစံကို အလြယ္တကူ ေပၚလြင္ေစခဲ႔တယ္။

The aftermath
The situation etc resulting from an important, especially unpleasant, event:
အေရးႀကီးေသာ အျဖစ္အပ်က္၊ အထူးသျဖင္႔ စိတ္မခ်မ္းေျမ႔ဖြယ္ ကိစၥမ်ား၊ ျဖစ္ရပ္မ်ားမွ ရရွိလာေသာ အေျခအေနတစ္ခု
e.g., The country is still recovering from the aftermath of the war.
ႏိုင္ငံ၏ အေျခအေနသည္ စစ္ၿပီးကာလမွ နလံျပန္ထူႏိုင္ရန္ အားထုတ္ေနရဆဲျဖစ္သည္။

Be after
To be looking for or hoping to be given something:
တစ္စံုတစ္ခုကို ရွာေဖြျခင္း၊ တစ္ခုခုရရွိရန္ ေမွ်ာ္လင္႔ခ်က္ထားရွိျခင္း။
e.g., The police are after him; What are you after?
ရဲသားမ်ားက သူ႔ကိုလိုက္ရွာေနၾကတယ္။ မင္းက ဘာကိုလိုက္ရွာေနတာလဲ?

Be up against
To be in a position where one has to deal with very severe, often apparently impossible difficulties:
အခက္အခဲ၊ ဒုကၡမ်ားကို ရင္ဆိုင္ၾကံဳေတြ႔ရျခင္း။
e.g., We have only just enough money to live on now, and if my husband loses his job we’ll be up against it.
အခုလက္ရွိငါတို႔မွာ ေငြလက္က်န္နဲနဲေလးနဲ႔ ေနေနရတယ္. တကယ္လို႔မ်ား ငါ႔ခင္ပြန္းသာ သူ႔အလုပ္ကို လက္လႊတ္လိုက္ရရင္ ငါတို႔ေတာ႔ က်ဥ္းထဲက်ပ္ထဲမွာ ဒုကၡပင္လယ္ေ၀ၿပီ။

Come of age
To become old enough to be considered legally an adult
အရြယ္ေရာက္လာၿပီ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းကို တရား၀င္သတ္မွတ္ခံရျခင္း။
e.g., My uncle will look after my inheritance until I come of age.
ကၽြန္ေတာ႔ ရပိုင္ခြင္႔အေမြမ်ားကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္အရြယ္မေရာက္ခင္ အထိ ဦးေလးက တာ၀န္ယူထိန္းသိမ္းထားမည္။

Aid and abet
To provide help and encouragement in some
တရားမ၀င္ေသာ၊ ဆိုး၀ါးေသာ လုပ္ငန္းေဆာင္တာမ်ားအတြက္ အကူအညီေပးျခင္း၊ အားေပးအားေျမွာက္ျပဳျခင္း။
e.g., His wife aids and abets him in his dishonest deeds.
သူ႔ရဲ႔ မရိုးသားတဲ႔ အျပဳအမူမ်ား၊ လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို သူ၏ ဇနီးက အကူအညီေပးလ်က္ရွိသည္။

Saturday, December 8, 2007

အီဒီယမ္သင္ခန္းစာ(၃)

catch (someone) in the act
to discover (someone) in doing something wrong
တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္ မဟုတ္တရုတ္ လုပ္ေနတာကို ေတြ႔ရွိသြားျခင္း။
e.g., The burglars were caught in the act of climbing in through a window.
ျပတင္းေပါက္ကို ေက်ာ္၀င္ေနေသာ ေဖာက္ထြင္းသူမ်ားကို ဖမ္းမိသြားခဲ႔သည္။

get one's act together
to get oneself organized:
ကိုယ္႔ကိုယ္ကို ေစ႔စပ္စီမံတတ္ျခင္း။
e.g.,If you're ever going to find a job you'll have to start getting your act together.
တကယ္လို႔သာ အလုပ္တစ္ခုကို ရွာဖို႔ႀကိဳးစားေနတယ္ဆိုရင္ အရင္ဆံုး ကိုယ္႔ကိုယ္ကို စီမံတတ္ရေတာ႔မယ္။


get in on the act
to join or copy someone in doing something successful or fashionable, esp in order to share in his or her success:
အထူးသျဖင္႔ တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္၊ တစ္စံုတစ္ခုရဲ႔ ေအာင္ျမင္မႈ၊ ေခတ္ေရစီးေၾကာင္းတြင္ ပါ၀င္ျခင္း၊ အတုယူျခင္း။
e.g.,Now that it is obvious that the computer industry is very profitable, a lot of companies are anxious to get in on the act.
အခုေတာ႔ သိသာထင္ရွားသြားပီ၊ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ ကုမၸဏီေတြ အက်ိဳးအျမတ္ရတာနဲ႔ ေျမာက္မ်ားစြာေသာ ကုမၸဏီမ်ားသည္ ေခတ္ေရစီးေၾကာင္းတစ္ခုကို လုိုက္ပါ အတုယူဖို႔ စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားစြာ ပါ၀င္ဖို႔လုပ္ေနၾကပီ။

put on an act
to pretend:
ဟန္ေဆာင္ျခင္း။
e.g.,I thought she had hurt herself, but she was only putting on an act.
သူမ ကိုယ္႔ကိုယ္ကို ထိခိုက္တယ္ထင္ေနတာ လက္စသတ္ေတာ႔ ဟန္ေဆာင္ေနတာကိုး။

action station
a state of readiness for activity:
လႈပ္ရွားမႈ တစ္ခုခုမွာပါ၀င္ဖို႔ အဆင္သင္႕ျဖစ္ေနေသာ။
e.g.,Action station! The concert is about to begin!
အသင္ျပင္ထားၾကပါ။ မၾကာမီ ဂီတေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပြဲ စတင္ပါေတာ႔မယ္။

Adam's ale
water:
ေရကိုဆိုလိုျခင္း။
e.g.,We have no wine__you'll just have to have Adam's ale.
ငါတို႔မွာ ေသာက္စရာ ဘာ၀ိုင္မွမရွိဘူး......ေရပဲေသာက္ရေတာ႔မယ္။

not to know (someone) from Adam
not to recognize (someone); not to have any idea who (someone) is:
တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္ကို မသိျခင္း၊ သူနဲ႔ပါတ္သက္၍ မထင္ျမင္မသံုးသပ္ တတ္ျခင္း။
e.g., John may have been at the party, but I wouldn't know him from Adam.
ဂၽြန္ ပါတီပြဲမွာ ရွိရင္ရွိေနမယ္၊ ငါသူနဲ႔ပါတ္သက္ၿပီး ေသခ်ာကို မသိဘူး။

အားလံုးအဆင္ေျပၾကမယ္လို႔ ထင္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္မွ ျပန္ေတြ႔မယ္ေလေနာ႔။

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Monday, November 26, 2007

Idioms သင္ခန္းစာ (၂)


Contributor: Chaos
Translator: ဦးဦးကထိက

1.give a good account of oneself : to do well
ေကာင္းစြာ ___ ႏုိင္သည္.

He gave a good account of himself during the match.
သူဟာ ျပိဳင္ပဲြမွာ ေကာင္းစြာ ယွဥ္ျပဳိင္ႏုိင္ခဲ႔တယ္.

Mya Mya gave a good account of herself in the exam.
ျမျမဟာ စာေမးပဲြကုိ ေကာင္းစြာ ေျဖဆုိႏုိင္ခဲ႔တယ္.


2.on my account : because of me or for my sake
တစ္စုံတစ္ေယာက္ေၾကာင္႔

You don't have to leave early on my account.
ငါရွိေနလုိ႔ မင္းေစာေစာထြက္သြားစရာ မလုိပါဘူးကြာ.

3.take (smt) into account/take account of smt : to consider (smt which
is part of the problem etc):
ထည္႔သြင္းစဥ္းစားသည္.

We must take his illness into account when assessing his work.
သူ႔ရဲ႔လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္ကုိ အကဲျဖတ္တဲ႔အခါမွာ ဒါကုိလုပ္ေနတုန္း သူဖ်ားေနခဲ႔တယ္ ဆုိတာကုိလည္း ထည္႔သြင္းစဥ္းစားရလိမ္႔မယ္.

4.turn (something) to (good) account : to use (a situation etc) to one's advantage:
(အေျခအေန၊ အေၾကာင္းအရာ) တစ္ခုခုကုိ အသုံးခ်ျပီး မိမိအက်ိဳးရွိေစရန္ လုပ္ေဆာင္သည္.

I'm sure I'll be able to turn this information to good account.
ဒီသတင္းအခ်က္အလက္ေတြကုိ ငါတုိ႔အက်ိဳးအတြက္ အသုံးခ်ႏုိင္မယ္လုိ႔ ငါယုံၾကည္တယ္.

5.within an ace of : very near to
ေရာက္လုနီးနီး၊ လက္တစ္ကမ္းအလုိ

He was within an ace of success.
သူဟာ ေအာင္ျမင္ဖုိ႔ လက္တစ္ကမ္းအလုိမွာပဲ ရွိခဲ႔တာပါ.

6.the acid test : a test which will prove or disprove smt beyond doubt :
တစ္စုံတစ္ရာကုိ တိတိက်က်ပီပီျပင္ျပင္ ကဲြကဲြျပားျပား သိရွိေစရန္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ျခင္း
(ဓာတ္ခဲြခန္းထဲတြင္ Acid ကုိ Litmus Paper ျဖင္႔တုိ႔ျပီး အေရာင္ေျပာင္းျခင္းကုိ ခဲြျခမ္းစိတ္ျဖာသည္႔ သေဘာတရားကုိ ယူထားပါသည္.)

His leg appears to be completely well again, but the acid test will be
the tennis tournament tomorrow.
သူ႔ေျခေထာက္ကေတာ႔ ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလးသက္သာလာပါျပီ. ဒါေပမယ္႔ တကယ္ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ကုိေတာ႔ မနက္ျဖန္ က်င္းပမယ္႔ တင္းနစ္ျပိဳင္ပဲြက်မွပဲ သိရလိမ္႔မယ္.

7.get (something) across : to be or make something understood.
နားလည္ေအာင္ ရွင္းလင္းေျပာဆုိသည္.

The plan seems quite clear to me, but I just can't get it across to anyone else.
ဒီအစီအစဥ္ကုိ ငါေကာင္းေကာင္းသေဘာေပါက္ပါတယ္. ဒါေပမယ္႔ တစ္ျခားသူေတြ နားလည္ေအာင္ေတာ႔ ငါမရွင္းျပႏုိင္ေသးဘူး ျဖစ္ေနတယ္.

8.put one across on someone(sl) : to deceive or play trick on someone
လွည္႔ျဖားသည္၊ အယုံသြင္းသည္.

He thought he would put one across on his friends by pretending he
was going to get married.
သူမဂၤလာေဆာင္ေတာ႔မယ္လုိ႔ ဟန္ေဆာင္ျပီး သူ႔သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြကုိ အယုံသြင္းလွည္႔စားႏုိင္ခဲ႔မယ္လုိ႔ သူထင္ခဲ႔တယ္.

9.an act of God: a totally unexpected natural happening which could
not have been foreseen or prevented:
ၾကိဳတင္မသိျမင္ႏုိင္၊ မတားဆီးႏုိင္ေသာ သဘာ၀ျဖစ္ရပ္မ်ား

His house was not insured against acts of God such as flooding and earthquakes.
သူ႔အိမ္ကုိ ေရၾကီးတာတုိ႔၊ ငလ်င္လႈပ္တာတုိ႔ စတဲ႔ သဘာ၀ေဘးအႏၱရာယ္ေတြရဲ႔ ရန္ကေန လြတ္ေအာင္ အာမခံမလုပ္ထားဘူး.

10.act up: to behave or act badly or wrongly:
တလြဲျပဳမူသည္၊ ေဖာက္လဲြေဖာက္ျပန္ျဖစ္သည္.

My car always acts up on a long journey.
ခရီးရွည္သြားရင္ ငါ႔ကားဟာ အျမဲတစ္ခုမဟုတ္တစ္ခု ထေဖာက္ေတာ႔တာပဲ.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Idioms သင္ခန္းစာ (၁)


Contributor: Chaos
Translator: ဦးဦးကထိက

Idioms are phrases which we use to decorate our sentences with a combination of words. Words, themselves have their own meanings but when we combine them together, they only stand for one meaning.

Idiomatic phrases beautify English Language. It's not only simple but also easy to learn. The use of idioms is of great help to raise our level of English in everyday use.

Idioms ဆုိတာကေတာ႔ sentences ေလးေတြကုိ အလွဆင္ဖုိ႔ သုံးတဲ႔ စကားစုေလးေတြပါပဲ။ စကားလုံးေလးေတြ ကိုယ္တုိင္မွာ အဓိပၸါယ္တစ္မ်ိဳးစီ ေဆာင္ေပမယ္႔ ေပါင္းစပ္လုိက္တဲ႔အခါက်ရင္ေတာ႔ အဓိပၸါယ္တစ္ခု ထြက္လာပါတယ္. Idiom စကားစုေလးေတြဟာ အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာစကားကို အလွဆင္တဲ႔ အလကၤာေလးေတြလုိ႔လည္း ေျပာလုိ႔ရႏုိင္ပါတယ္. Idiom ေလးေတြကုိ သင္ယူရတာ လြယ္လည္းလြယ္ပါတယ္. အင္မတန္မွလည္း ရုိးရွင္းျပီး ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္စရာလည္းေကာင္းပါတယ္. အဂၤလိပ္စာကို အဆင္႔ျမင္႔ျမင္႔ သင္ယူတတ္ေျမာက္ခ်င္သူတုိင္းအတြက္ Idiom ေလးေတြကုိ ႏုိင္ႏုိင္နင္းနင္း အသုံးျပဳတတ္ဖုိ႔ သိပ္ကုိ အေရးၾကီးပါတယ္.


A to Z

very thoroughly and completely
အစအဆုံး၊ အကုန္အစင္၊ တစ္လုံးတစ္ပါဒမွ်မက်န္ လုိ႔ အဓိပၸါယ္ရပါတယ္.

He has studied Chinese from A to Z.

A1 (inf)

of the highest quality; very good.
ထိပ္တန္း အရည္အေသြးလုိ႔ ဆုိလုိပါတယ္. A ဆုိတာက Alphabet ေတြရဲ႔ ပထမဆုံး စကားလုံးျဖစ္သလုိ 1 ဆုိတာကလည္း နံပါတ္ေတြရဲ႔ ပထမဆုံးျဖစ္ပါတယ္. ဒါကုိ တင္စားျပီး ယူထားတာပါ.

The products from this company can be said to be A1.

ABC

the simplest and most basic knowledge:
အေျခခံ လုိ႔ ဆုိလုိပါတယ္.

This book gives you the ABC of C++ Programming.

About

month, week etc about
every alternate month, week:
ရက္ျခား၊ အပတ္ျခား၊ လျခား စသည္..

I go to Yangon and Taunggyi week about(One week i go to Yangon and one
week i go to Taunggyi

Be, get (a bit) above oneself

to have to acquire too high an opinion of oneself;
to be or become very conceited:
စိတ္ၾကီး၀င္သည္. ေသြးနားထင္ေရာက္သည္ လုိ႔ ျပန္ဆုိႏုိင္ပါတယ္.

She's got a bit above herself since she became the chairperson of the company.

of one's own accord

of one's own free will:
တစ္ပါးသူ၏ တုိက္တြန္းခ်က္မပါဘဲ မိမိသေဘာအရ လုိ႔ အဓိပၸါယ္ေဆာင္ပါတယ္.

He did it of his own accord, without being forced to.

bring (smo) to account

to make sure that (a criminal etc)
pays for what he has done:
ကုိယ္လုပ္တာ ကုိယ္ခံရမယ္ ဆုိတဲ႔ သေဘာမ်ိဳးပါ.

This murderer must be brought to account.

by all accounts

in the opinion of most people
အမ်ားစုရဲ႔ သေဘာထားလုိ႔ မွတ္ယူႏိုင္ပါတယ္.

By all accounts, he's an excellent teacher.

call (someone) to account

to demand that (someone) explains what he has done and why, esp if
this was apparently wrong:
ေခၚယူသတိေပးခံရတာမ်ိဳးကုိ ဆုိလုိပါတယ္.

He was called to account for his ridiculous behavior.