be that as it may

be /bi; strong form bi:/ v

၁။ (used after there and before a, an, no, some, etc + n ) (က) ရှိသည်။ တည်ရှိသည်။ There are no easy answers. ❍ There are many such people. ❍ Once upon a time there was a princess. ❍ There have been cows in that field since my grandfather's time. ❍ Is there a God? ❍ For there to be life there must be air and water. (ခ) ရှိသည်။ There's a bus-stop down the road. ❍ There were no books on the shelf. ❍ There are some good photographs in this exhibition.
၂။ (အချိန်)ရှိပြီ။ It's half past two. ❍ It was late at night when we finally arrived.
၃။ ( adv , prepositional phrase နှင့်တွဲ၍ နေရာပြ၊ အချိန်ပြစကား)။ (က) (၌၊ မှာ၊ တွင်) ရှိသည်။ The lamp is on the table. ❍ The stable is a mile away. ❍ Mary's upstairs. ❍ John's out in the garden. ❍ They are on holiday in Italy. (ခ) (၌၊ မှာ၊ တွင်) ဖြစ်သည်။ The party is after work. ❍ The election was on Monday. ❍ The concert will be in the school hall. ❍ The meeting are on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the main hall. (ဂ) ရှိနေသည်။ ဖြစ် နေသည်။ She has been in her room for hours. ❍ They're here till Christmas. ❍ The situation is the same as when I last spoke to you. (ဃ) ရှိသည်။ Were you at church yesterday? ❍ I'll be at the party.
၄။ (adv , prepositional phrase ဖြင့် တွဲ၍ သွားရာ၊ ဖြစ်ရာ၊ လာရာ အရပ်ပြစကား)။ သွားသည်။ ရောက်သည်။ လာသည်။ I'll be on my way very soon. ❍ She's from Italy (ie her native country is Italy). ❍ He'll be here soon, I'm sure.
၅။ (adv , Prepositional phrase ဖြင့်တွဲ၍ ဦးတည်ရာပြစကား။ perfect tense ဖြင့်သာသုံးသည်။ ) သွားသည်။ ရောက်သည်။ I've never been to Spain. ❍ She had been abroad many times. ❍ Has the postman been (ie called) yet? ❍ BEEN
၆။ (အခြေအနေ၊ အနေအထားပြစကား)။ ရှိသည်။ ဖြစ်သည်။ Life is unfair. ❍ The earth is round. ❍ He is ten years old. ❍ Be quick! ❍ ‘How are you?’ ‘I'm quite well, thanks. ’ ❍ I am of average height. ❍ She's a great beauty.
၇။ (မည်သည့်ပစ္စည်းဖြစ်ကြောင်းပြ စကား)။ ဖြင့်ပြုလုပ်သည်။ Is your jacket real leather?
၈။ (အမည်၊ အလုပ်အကိုင်၊ ဝါသနာ စသည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်းပြစကား)။ ဖြစ်သည်။ Today is Monday. ❍ You are the man I want. ❍ ‘Who is that?’ ‘It's my brother. ’ ❍ Susan is a doctor. ❍ Peter is an amateur painter in his spare time. ❍ He wants to be (ie become) a fireman when he grows up.
၉။ (ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုပြ စကား)။ ဖြစ်သည်။ The money's not yours, it's John's (ie It belongs to John and not to you). ❍ This parcel is for you.
၁၀။ (အရေအတွက်၊ တန်ဖိုးရှိကြောင်းပြစကား)။ (က) တန်သည်။ ‘How much is that dress?’ ‘It's £50. ’ (ခ) နှင့်ညီမျှသည်။ Twice two is four. ❍ Three and three is six. ❍ Four threes are twelve. ❍ How much is a thousand dollars in pounds? (ဂ) ဖြစ်သည်။ (saying ) Two is company; three's a crowd. ❍ London is not England (ie Do not think that all of England is like London). (ဃ) (ကိုယ်စားပြုကြောင်းပြစကား)။ ဖြစ်သည်။ Let x be the sum of a and b. (င) (ဆိုလိုကြောင်းပြစကား)။ ဖြစ်သည်။ Winning the award was everything to her. ❍ A thousand dollars is nothing to a rich man.
/bi; strong form bi:/ aux v
၁။ (passive voice ကိုဖော်ပြရန် past participle နှင့်တွဲသုံးရသည့် အကူကြိယာ)။ ပြုခြင်း၊ ဖြစ်ခြင်း ခံရသည်။ He was killed in the war. ❍ Where were they made? ❍ The thief was caught. ❍ The house is/was being built. ❍ You will be severely punished if you do not obey.
၂။ (ပြုဆဲ၊ ဖြစ်ဆဲ ကြိယာသဏ္ဌာန်နှင့် တွဲသုံးရသည့် အကူကြိယာ)။ They are/were reading. ❍ I am studying Chinese. ❍ I'll be seeing him soon. ❍ What have you been doing this week? ❍ I'm always being criticized.
၃။ (with to + infinitive) (က) (လိုအပ်ချက်၊ ညွှန်ကြားချက် စသည်ကို ဖော်ပြရာ၌သုံးသော အကူကြိယာ)။ I am to phone them once I reach the airport. ❍ You are to report to the police. ❍ What is to be done about this problem? (ခ) (အစီအစဉ်ဖော်ပြရာ၌ သုံးသော အကူကြိယာ)။ They are to be married in June. ❍ Each participant was to pay his own expenses. (ဂ) (ဖြစ်နိုင်ခြေကိုဖော်ပြရာ၌သုံးသော အကူကြိယာ)။ The book was not to be (ie could not be) found. (ဃ) (ကံတရားဖော်ပြရာ၌သုံးသော အကူကြိယာ)။ He was never to see his wife again (ie Although he did not know it would be so at the time, he did not see her again). ❍ She wanted to write a successful novel but it was not to be (ie It turned out never to happen). (င) (were ပုံသဏ္ဌာန်ဖြင့်သုံးသည်။ ) ဖြစ်ခဲ့သော်။ If I were to tell you/Were I to tell you that I made it myself, would you believe me? ❍ If it were to rain, we would have to cancel the match tomorrow.
❏ …as/that was [IDM ] ယခင်က။ Miss Brown that was (ie before her marriage) ❍ ‘Where's the Concert Hall?’ ‘It's the Odeon Cinema as was, in the High Street.
❏ the be-all and end-all (of sth) [IDM ] (infml ) အဓိကပဲ။ အသက်ပဲ။ Her boyfriend is the be-all and end-all of her existence.
❏ (he, she, etc has) been and done sth [IDM ] (infml ) (စိတ်အနှောင့်အယှက်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ အံ့အားတသင့်ဖြစ်ကြောင်းပြ စကား)။ လုပ်ပြန်ပြီ။ လုပ်ချလိုက်ပြန်ပြီ။ Someone's been and parked in front of the entrance!
❏ be one self [IDM ] ကိုယ့်နဂိုအတိုင်း။ Don't act sophisticated—just be yourself.
❏ be that as it may [IDM ] သော်လည်း။ ပေမည့်။ I accept that he's old and frail; be that as it may, he's still a fine politician.
❏ leave/let sb/sth be [IDM ] (infml ) နေပါစေ။ လွှတ်ထား လိုက်။ Leave her be, she obviously doesn't want to talk about it. ❍ Let the poor dog be (ie Don't annoy it).
❏ -to-be [IDM ] (in compounds) …လောင်း။ his bride-to-be. ❍ mothers-to-be (ie pregnant women).