believable
/bɪˈliːvəbl/
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bɪ - ˈliːvəbl -> believable
၁။ (က) ယုံကြည်သည်။ She believed everything he told her. ❍ I refuse to believe it. ❍ I'll believe it/that when I see it (ie I will not believe it until I have solid evidence). ❍ I'm told he's been in prison, and I can well believe it (ie it does not surprise me). ❍ Don't believe what you read in the papers.
(ခ) (တစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက် စကားကို) အမှန်ဟု လက်ခံသည်။ I don't know which of them to believe.
၂။ ထင်မြင်ယူဆသည်။ People used to believe (that) the world was flat. ❍ It was widely believed that he had betrayed his country. ❍ I believe I should congratulate you on becoming a father. ❍ It happened on 22 February, a Monday I believe. ❍ The police believed him to be guilty. ❍ I genuinely believe it to have been a mistake. ❍ ‘Is he coming?’ ‘I believe so not. ’
၃။ ယုံကြည်ကိုးကွယ်သည်။ He thinks that everyone who believes will go to heaven.
❏ believable adj ယုံကြည်လက်ခံနိုင်လောက်သော။ an entirely believable explanation/scenario ❍ a play with believable characters. Compare UNBELIEVABLE
❏ believe in sb/sth [PHRV ] တကယ်ရှိကြောင်း ယုံကြည် သည်။ I believe in God. ❍ Do you believe in ghosts?
❏ believe in sth/sb; believe in doing sth [PHRV ] စိတ်ချယုံကြည်သည်။ မှန်ကြောင်း၊ ကောင်းကြောင်း ယုံကြည်သည်။ She has doubts about him, but I believe in him implicitly. ❍ Do you believe in nuclear disarmament? ❍ He believes in getting plenty of exercise.
❏ believe it or not [IDM ] ယုံချင်ယုံ မယုံချင်နေ။ Believe it or not, we were left waiting in the rain for two hours.
❏ believe (you) me [IDM ] တကယ်ပြောတာ။ Believe you me, this administration won't meddle with the tax system.
❏ believe sth of sb [PHRV ] စွမ်းပကားကို ယုံကြည်သည်။ If I hadn't seen him doing it I would never have believed it of him.
❏ believer n (ဘာသာတရား၌) သက်ဝင် ယုံကြည်သူ။ a message to all true believers of Islam. Compare UNBELIEVER
❏ be a (great/firm) believer in sth [IDM ] စွဲစွဲမြဲမြဲ ယုံကြည်သူ၊ တန်ဖိုးထားသူဖြစ်သည်။ I'm a great believer in (taking) regular physical exercise.
❏ don't you believe it! [IDM ] ဘယ်ကလာ (ဟုတ်ရမှာလဲ)။ ‘He's only 34. ’ ‘Don't you believe it – he's at least 40. ’
❏ make believe (that…) [IDM ] ဂိုက်ဖမ်းသည်။ The boys liked to make believe (that) they were astronauts. See also MAKE-BELIEVE
❏ not believe one's ears/eyes [IDM ] ကိုယ့်မျက်စိ ကိုယ် မယုံ။ ကိုယ့်နားကိုယ်မယုံ။ I stared at her, scarcely able to believe my ears.
❏ seeing is believing [IDM ] (saying ) ဒိဋ္ဌတွေ့မှယုံ။
❏ would you believe (it)? [IDM ] ကြားရင်ယုံမှာ မဟုတ်ဘူး။ Today, would you believe, she came to work in an evening dress!
- Astronomers knew the Earth was round, but few people believed it.
- [believe (that)] : I don’t believe that she’s ever been to Hong Kong.
- [be widely/generally believed] : It is widely believed that the virus originally came from monkeys.
- [find it hard/difficult to believe] : She found it hard to believe that he was a real businessman.
- [I would never have believed] : I would never have believed such a place existed if I hadn’t seen it for myself.
- The police didn’t believe her story.
- He told me his version of events, but I didn’t believe a word of it.
- ‘I did pay the money back!’ ‘OK, OK – I believe you!’
- [believe (that)] : Scientists believe a cure for the disease will be discovered soon.
- [honestly/truly believe] : I honestly believe he really loved her.
- [reason to believe] : There is no reason to believe that he is not telling the truth.
- [lead someone to believe something] : We were led to believe we could make a large profit.
- [believe someone (to be) something] : His friends wouldn’t believe him to be capable of murder.
- Do you still believe?
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