about-face
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about - face -> about face
၁။ ခန့်။ လောက်။ It costs about $ 10. ❍ He's about the same height as you ❍ She drove (for) about ten miles. ❍ He arrived (at) about ten o'clock.
၂။ (infml ) သလောက်။ လောက်။ I'm (just) about ready. ❍ This is about the best we can hope for in the circumstances.
၃။ (infml ) (သည်းခံ၊ ဆို) နိုင်ရုံတစ်မည်။ I've had (just) about enough (ie too much) of your complaining. ❍ He's been promoted and about time too ( ie it ought to have happened earlier). See also JUST ABOUT
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၁။ ထိုထိုဤဤ။ ဟိုဟိုသည်သည်။ ဟိုမှာသည်မှာ။ The children were rushing about. ❍ book lying about on the floor ❍ He looked about, trying to work out where he was.
၂။ မရေမရာ။ ဟိုလိုလိုသည်လိုလို။ လတ်လျား လတ်လျား။ I waited about but nobody came. ❍ People were just standing about on street corners.
၃။ ဝန်းကျင်တွင်။ အနီးအနားတွင်။ There was nobody about ❍ She's somewhere about, I saw her a few moments ago.
၄။ နေရာအနှံ့အပြားတွင် (ဖြစ်သည်၊ ပေါ်ပေါက်သည်)။ There's a lot of flu' about (Many people are suffering from it).
၅။ နောက်ပြန်။ နောက်။ put the ship about ❍ About turn!
၆။ မူမှန်မှ ဆန့်ကျင်လျက်။ The wrong way about.
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၁။ (က) နှင့်ပတ်သက်၍။ နှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍။ နဲ့ပတ်သက်လို့။ Tell me about it. ❍ What is he so angry about? ❍ He is very careful about his appearance. ❍ there's nothing you can do about it ❍ There's something strange about the whole affair. (ခ) နှင့်ပတ်သက်သော။ နဲ့ပတ်သက်တဲ့။ a book about flowers ❍ Commerce is all about making money.
၂။ (က) အနှံ့။ ပတ်ပတ်လည်။ ဟိုဟို သည်သည်။ walking about the town ❍ papers strewn about the floor ❍ He came out of the door and looked about him. (ခ) သိုင်းကာ (ဖက်သည်၊ ဝတ်ဆင်သည်)။ He put his arms about her. ❍ She wore a shawl about her shoulders.
၃။ အနီးအနားတွင်။ I dropped the key somewhere about here.
၄။ နေခိုက်တွင်။ while you're about it…
❏ about-turn (also about-face ) n
၁။ (စစ်မိန့်သံ) နောက်လှည့်။
၂။ အလှည့်အပြောင်း။ These new measures indicate an about-turn in government policy. See also U-turn
❏ be about to do sth [IDM ] (လုပ်၊ ပြော၊ သွား စသည်) ခါနီးတွင်၊ မည်လုပ်တုန်း။ I was about to say when you interrupted me. ❍ We're about to start. ❍ I'm not about to admit defeat.
❏ how/what about… ? [IDM ]
၁။ ဘယ်လိုလဲ။ မည်သို့ နည်း။ What about his qualifications (ie Is he qualified) for the job?
၂။ ဘယ်လိုသဘောရသလဲ။ ဘယ်လိုလဲ။ How about going to France for our next anniversary? ❍ What about a cup of tea?
❏ that's (just) about all / it [IDM ] ဤမျှသာ (ပင်)။ ဒီလောက်ပါပဲ။ "Do you have any other comment?" "No. I think that's about it for now. "
❏ that's about it / the size of it [IDM ] ဒီလောက်ပဲ ရှိပါတယ်။
- Think about what I’ve told you.
- She kept saying horrible things about my mother.
- Jokes about the president
- [all about] : They’d forgotten all about poor Harry.
- I’m worried about Dad.
- There’s nothing to get excited about.
- About that money I owe you – I can pay you back next week.
- It’s about Jack – he’s been so depressed lately.
- About 250 people were killed in the explosion.
- Anthea must be about the same age as you.
- I woke up at about 3 am.
- [round about] : It must have been round about six when we got home.
- The girls were dancing about the room in high spirits.
- Abe was tired of wandering about on his own.
- Diana turned about and marched out of the room.
- Don’t leave important papers lying about on your desk.
- There were articles of clothing scattered about the room.
- The building was in darkness and there was no one about.
- You shouldn’t have been spraying weedkiller while there were children about.
- Rasula wore a garland of flowers about her neck.
- The prophet had gathered about him a band of faithful followers.
- They’ve kept us waiting about all morning.
- Dad was pottering about in the garden.
- Stop messing about. We’ve got a job to do.
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