at best
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at - best -> at best
best /best/ adj (superlative of GOOD1)
အကောင်းဆုံး။ my best friend ❍ the best dinner I've ever had ❍ The best thing to do would be to apologize. ❍ The best thing about the party was the food. ❍ He's the best man for the job. ❍ What is the best make of tennis-racket? ❍ the best-looking man she had ever met ❍ the company's best-ever results ❍ It's best to go by bus. See also GOOD adj , BETTER adj
adv (often in compounds)
(က) …အထူးကောင်းစွာ။ the best- dressed politician ❍ the best-kept garden in the street ❍ He works best in the mornings. ❍ These insects are best seen through a microscope. ❍ She's the person best able to cope.
(ခ) …ဆုံး။ his best-known / best-loved poem ❍ I enjoyed her first novel best (of all).
(ဂ) အသင့်လျော်ဆုံး။ Some things are best kept secret. ❍ Do as you think best (ie what you think is the most suitable thing to do).
n [sing]
၁။ အကောင်းဆုံး။ ခေါင်။ ထိပ်တန်း။ She wants the best of everything (ie wants her life, possessions, etc to be perfect). ❍ When you pay that much for a meal you expect the best. ❍ He was acting from the best of motives. စေတနာကောင်းနှင့် ဟန်ဆောင်သည်။ ❍ They're all good players, but she's the best of the lot/bunch. ❍ He is among the best of our workers. ❍ We're the best of friends (ie very close friends).
၂။ အဖြစ်နိုင်ဆုံး။ အတတ်နိုင် ဆုံး။ £50 is the best I can offer you. ❍ The best we can hope for is that we don't lose money on the deal. ❍ I've only done a temporary repair because that's the best I can manage.
v အနိုင်ရသည်။ သာသည်။ ကျောသည်။
❏ all the best [IDM ] (infml ) (ခွဲခွာနှုတ်ဆက်စကား)။ အရာရာအကောင်းဆုံးဖြစ်ပါစေ။ Goodbye, and all the best! ❍ Here's wishing you all the best in the coming year.
❏ as best one can [IDM ] တတ်အားသမျှ အကောင်းဆုံး။ The facilities were not ideal but we managed as best we could.
❏ at best [IDM ] အမျှော်လင့်နိုင်ဆုံး။ အညှာတာဆုံး။ We can't arrive before Friday at best. ❍ His action was at best ill-advised. အညှာတာဆုံးဆိုရလျှင်။
❏ at its/one's best [IDM ] အကောင်းဆုံး အနေအထား။ modern architecture at its best ❍ Chaplin was at his best playing the little tramp. ❍ I wasn't feeling at my best at the party so I didn't enjoy it.
❏ (even) at the best of times [IDM ] အကောင်းဆုံး ဆိုသော အခြေအနေမှာ(ပင်)။ He's bad-tempered at the best of times—he'll be even worse now!
❏ be (all) for the best [IDM ] အခုဘယ်လိုနေနေ ဇာတ်သိမ်း ကောင်းဖို့ပဲ။ Perhaps not getting that job will turn out to be all for the best—you might get one you prefer.
❏ be on one's best behaviour [IDM ] တတ်နိုင်သမျှ အယဉ်ကျေးဆုံး၊ အရည်မွန်ဆုံး ပြုမူသည်။
❏ one's best bet [IDM ] (infml ) ကိုယ့်ဆန္ဒပြည့်ဝစေမည့် ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်၊ လုပ်ရပ်။ Your best bet would be to call again tomorrow.
❏ one's best bib and tucker [IDM ] (dated or joc ) အကောင်းဆုံး (ပွဲတက်) ဝတ်စုံ။
❏ best man n လူပျိုရံ။ Compare BRIDESMAID
❏ the best of both worlds / all possible worlds [IDM ] တစ်ချိန်တည်းခံစားရသော အဘက်ဘက်မှ အကျိုးကျေးဇူး များ။ She's a career woman and a mother, so she has/gets/enjoys the best of both worlds.
❏ the best of British (luck) (to sb) [IDM ] (Brit often ironic ) (အောင်မြင်ရန်လမ်းစ မရှိသူအတွက် ကံကောင်းပါစေ ကြောင်း ခနဲ့တဲ့တဲ့ဆုတောင်းစကား)။
❏ (play) the best of three, etc [IDM ] သုံးပွဲ၊ ငါးပွဲ စသည် ကစားရာတွင် ပွဲအနိုင်အများဆုံး။ We were playing the best of five but we stopped after three because John won them all.
❏ best seller n ရောင်းအစွံဆုံး (စာအုပ် စသည်)။ the best-seller list.
❏ best-selling adj အရောင်းအသွက်ဆုံး။ လူကြိုက်အများဆုံး။ a best-selling novel/author.
❏ bring out the best/worst in sb [IDM ] အကောင်းဆုံး၊ အညံ့ဆုံး အရည်အချင်း ပေါ်ထွက်လာသည်။ The family crisis really brought out the best in her.
❏ do, try, etc one's (level/very) best; do the best one can [IDM ] အစွမ်းကုန်ကြိုးစားသည်။ I did my best to stop her. ❍ It doesn't matter if you don't win—just try your best.
❏ (do, etc sth) for the best [IDM ] အကောင်းဆုံး ဖြစ်အောင် လုပ်သည်။ I'm sorry my advice offended you—I meant it for the best.
❏ get/have the best of sth [IDM ] အကျိုးကျေးဇူး အများဆုံး ရသည်။ We certainly got the best of the deal.
❏ look one's/its best [IDM ] ကြည့်(လို့) အလှဆုံး၊ ကြည့်(လို့) အကောင်းဆုံး။ The scenery looks its best in the autumn.
❏ make the best of sth/it/things/a bad job [IDM ] အခြေအနေမလှသည့်ကြားမှ အကောင်းဆုံးဖြစ်အောင် လုပ်သည်။ We decided to make the best of a bad job and have our picnic despite the awful weather.
❏ make the best use of sth [IDM ] အကောင်းဆုံး၊ အကျိုးရှိဆုံး အသုံးချသည်။ She's certainly made the best use of her opportunities.
❏ to the best of one's belief/knowledge [IDM ] သိရ သမျှ။ သိထားသမျှ။ To the best of my knowledge she is still living there.
❏ with the best (of them) [IDM ] အများနည်းတူ။ တန်းတူ။ At sixty he still plays tennis with the best of them.
❏ with the best of intentions [IDM ] စေတနာကောင်းဖြင့်။ It was done with the best of intentions.
❏ with the best will in the world [IDM ] ဘယ်လောက် ကြိုးစားကြိုးစား။ ဘယ်လောက်ဖြစ်ချင်ပါစေ။ With the best will in the world, this job cannot be done in less than a week.
- The best hotel in town
- Negotiation is always the best way of settling a dispute.
- [best for] : What kind of soil is best for growing roses?
- I want to do what’s best for the family.
- [make the best use of something] : I want to make the best use of my time while I’m here.
- The best player in the team
- At the wedding he’ll be wearing his best suit.
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