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at /ǝt; strong form æt/ prep

၁။ (က) (နေရာပြပုဒ်)။ ၌။ မှာ။ တွင်။ ဝယ်။
at the end of the runway ❍ at the corner of the street ❍ go in at the side door ❍ change at Crewe ❍ arrive at the airport ❍ At the roundabout take the third exit. ❍ I'll be at home all morning. (ခ) (ဌာနပြပုဒ်)။ ၌။ မှာ။ တွင်။ ဝယ်။ She's at the theatre/ cinema (ie watching a play/ film). ❍ She works at the hospital.
❍ He's at (ie staying at) the Grand Hotel.
(ဂ) (အခမ်းအနား၊ ပွဲလမ်း စသည် နေရာပြပုဒ်)။ ၌။ မှာ။ တွင်။ ဝယ်။ at a concert/ conference/ match. (ဃ) (အလုပ်ဌာန၊ ပညာ ဆည်းပူးရာ ဌာနပြပုဒ်)။ ၌။ တွင်။ He's been at the bank longer than anyone else. ❍ I'm at the head office. ❍ She's at Oxford (ie oxford University). (Compare… spending three days in oxford as a tourist. ). (င) (တစ်ဦးဦး၏ နေအိမ်၊ ဆိုင် နေရာပြပုဒ်)။ မှာ။ ၌။ They're at Keith's. ❍ I was at my father's. ❍ They didn't have any bread at the baker's.
၂။ (က) (အချိန်၊ နာရီပြပုဒ်)။ ၌။ မှာ။ တွင်။ ဝယ်။ start/ meet/ leave at 2 o'clock ❍ at 3.15/ at a quarter past 3 ❍ at the end of the week
❍ We woke at dawn. ❍ I didn't know he was dead at the time of speaking to you (ie when I spoke to you). ❍ At the moment you called I was in the bath. (ခ) (ကာလပြပုဒ်)။ ၌။ မှာ။ တွင်။ ဝယ်။ At night you can see the stars.
❍ What are you doing at/ (US) on the weekend? ❍ take a few days off at Christmas/ Easter. (ဂ) (အသက်အရွယ် အပိုင်းအခြားပြပုဒ်)။ ၌။ မှာ။ တွင်။ ဝယ်။ She got married at 55.
❍ You can retire at 60. ❍ He left school at (the age of) 16. ❍ TIME
၃။ (က) (ဦးတည်ရာ၊ ရှေးရှုရာပြပုဒ်)။ သို့။ ကို။ aim the ball at the hole ❍ throw stones at the can in the water (ie trying to hit it) ❍ direct one's advertising at a winder audience ❍ The dog rushed at me, wagging its tail. ❍ smile/ stare/ wave at sb ❍ she shouted at me but I couldn't hear. (ခ) ကို။ He clutched wildly at the rope as he fell. ❍ I could only guess at the meaning of the sign. ❍ She nibbled at a sandwich (ie ate only tiny bits of it).
၄။ (ကွာလှမ်းမှုကို ပြသည့်ပုဒ်)။ ကနေ။ မှာ။
hold sth at arm's length ❍ Can you read a car number-plate at fifty metres?
၅။ (အခြေအနေ၊ အနေအထား၊ ဖြစ်ဆဲ အမှုပြပုဒ်)။ put sb at risk ❍ Our country is now at war. ❍ The soldiers were standing at ease (ie in a relaxed position). ❍ She's at work in the garden. ❍ I think Mr Harris is at lunch.
၆။ (က) (နှုန်းထားပြပုဒ်)။ မှာ။ ဖြင့်။ နှင့်။ လျှင်။ House prices rose at a higher rate than inflation. ❍ driving at 70 mph ❍ I bought this coat at half-price/ at 50% discount. ❍ They went into his office six at a time. ❍ the TV was on at full volume. (ခ) (အစဉ်ပြ၊ အကြိမ်ပြပုဒ်)။ မှာ။ တွင်။ at the first attempt ❍ at two-minute intervals (ie once every two minutes).
၇။ အရ။ attend the dinner at the chairman's invitation ❍ at the king's command.
၈။ (her, his, our စသည်နှင့်တွဲ၍ အသာ လွန်ဆုံးအနေအထားပြပုဒ်)။ ၏။ ရဲ့။ This was Madonna at her best. ❍ an example of local craftsmanship at its finest ❍ The garden's at its most beautiful in June.
၉။ (နာမ်၊ နာမဝိသေသနများ နောက်တွင် သုံးသောပုဒ်)။ မှာ။ တွင်။ ကို။ good/ clever/ skilled at restoring furniture ❍ hopeless at (playing) chess ❍ She's a genius at doing crossword puzzles. ❍ impatient at the delay
❍ amused at the cartoons ❍ delighted at the result ❍ puzzled at her silence ❍ his anger at being beaten. ရှုံးနိမ့်ခြင်းအတွက် ထွက်ရသောဒေါသ။
❏ at that [IDM ] ထို့ပြင်လည်း။ He managed to buy a car after all—and rather a nice one, at that.
❏ where it's at [IDM ] (infml ) ခေတ်စားနေသော နေရာ (သို့) ပွဲလမ်း။ Judging by the crowds waiting to get in this seems to be where it's at.