betterment
/ˈbɛtəm(ə)nt/
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bet - ter - ment -> betterment
(n) ပိုကောင်းလာခြင်း။
better1 /'betǝ(r)/ adj (comparative of GOOD)
၁။ (က) သာသော။ ကောင်းသော။ a better worker/job/car ❍ He was in a much/far better mood than usual. ❍ The weather couldn't have been better. ❍ I liked last week's programme, but this week's was even better. ❍ Life was difficult then but things have got better and better over the years. ❍ There's nothing better than a good hot bath before bedtime. (ခ) ပို၍ ကျွမ်းကျင်သော၊ သာသော။ She's better at science than me. (ဂ) ပို၍သင့်တော်သော။ ပို၍ ရှင်းသော။ Having talked to everyone involved I now have a better idea (of) what happened. ❍ Can't you think of a better word than ‘nice’ to describe your trip? See also BEST adj
၂။ သက်သာသော။ နေသာသော။ I'm (feeling) much better today, thanks. ❍ His ankle is getting better. See also WELL adj ၁ Compare WORSE ၂
adv (comparative of WELL adj )
၁။ ပို၍ကောင်းစွာ။ You would write better if you had a good pen. ❍ She sings better than I do.
၂။ ထက်ပိုမို၍။ I like him better than her. ❍ You'll like the play better when you understand it more. ❍ The better I know her, the more I admire her. ❍ He's looking for a better-paid job.
၃။ (သင့်လျော်ကြောင်းပြ စကား)။ ပိုကောင်းမည်။ His advice is better ignored. ❍ Some things are better left unsaid.
n [U] ပို၍ကောင်းမွန်မှု။ I expected better of him (ie I thought he would have behaved better).
v
၁။ (က) သာအောင်လုပ်သည်။ This achievement cannot be bettered.
(ခ) တိုးတက်ကောင်းမွန်အောင် လုပ်သည်။ The government hopes to better the conditions of the workers.
၂။ ~ oneself ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုယ် အဆင့်အတန်းမြင့် အောင် ကြိုးစားသည်။
❏ against one's better judgement [IDM ] သင့်တော်လှ သည်ဟု မဆိုသာသော်လည်း။ He agreed, much against his better judgement.
❏ one's better half [IDM ] (infml joc ) ဇနီး (သို့) ခင်ပွန်း။
❏ be better off [IDM ]
၁။ ပို၍ကောင်းသည်။ ပို၍ အဆင်ပြေ သည်။ We'd be better off without him as a partner. ❍ She'd be better off in an old people's home, really.
၂။ ငွေကြေးအခြေအနေ ပိုကောင်းသည်။ We could afford a car if we were better off.
❏ be better off doing sth [IDM ] (တစ်ခုခုလုပ်လိုက် ခြင်းက) ပိုကောင်းမည်။ He'd be better off going to the police about it.
❏ better the devil you know (than the devil you don't) [IDM ] (saying ) ဘာမှန်းမသိတဲ့မောင်ပုလဲနဲ့စာရင် သိထားတဲ့ဒိုင်းဝန်ကမှ တော်လိမ့်ဦးမယ်။
❏ (feel/be) (all) the better for sth [IDM ] ကိုယ်၊ စိတ် ချမ်းသာသည်။ You'll feel all the better for (having had) a holiday.
❏ better late than never [IDM ] (saying )
၁။ (နောက်ကျ ရာ၌သုံးသော တောင်းပန်စကား)။
၂။ နောက်ကျပေမည့် ဖြစ်လာ တာပဲတော်လှပြီ။
❏ better luck next time [IDM ] (saying ) (အားပေး စကား)။ နောက်တစ်ချီတော့ ကံပိုကောင်းမှာပါ။
❏ betterment n [U] (fml ) တိုးတက်ကောင်းမွန်ခြင်း။ တိုးတက် ကောင်းမွန်အောင်လုပ်ခြင်း။
❏ better safe than sorry [IDM ] (saying ) ကမူးရှူးထိုး လုပ်မိ၍ နောင်တရနေမည့်အစား အချိန်ယူ၍အပိုင် လုပ်သင့်သည်။
❏ do better to do sth [IDM ] … ရင်ပိုကောင်းမယ်။ Don't buy now — you'd do better to wait for the sales.
❏ for better or worse [IDM ] ကောင်းသည်ဖြစ်စေ၊ ဆိုးသည် ဖြစ်စေ။ It's done, and, for better or worse, we can't change it now.
❏ get the better of sb/sth [IDM ] သာသည်။ နိုင်သည်။ စိုးမိုး(သွား)သည်။ You always get the better of me at chess. ❍ His shyness got the better of him (ie He was so shy he could not speak, take action, etc at that moment).
❏ get the better of sth [IDM ] (ငြင်းခုံရာ စသည်၌) နိုင် သည်။ She always gets the better of our quarrels.
❏ go one better (than sb/sth) [IDM ] သာအောင်လုပ်သည်။ I bought a small boat, then he went one better and bought a yacht.
❏ had better/best [IDM ] (ပို၍) သင့်မည်၊ ကောင်းမည်။ You'd better not say that. ❍ Hadn't we better take an umbrella? ❍ I had better (ie I think I should) begin by introducing myself. ❍ ‘I promise I'll pay you back tomorrow. ’ ‘You'd better!’ (ie as a threat). ❍ SHOULD
❏ have seen/known better days [IDM ] အရင်ကတော့ ရွှေထီးဆောင်းခဲ့ဖူးတာပဲ။ That coat has seen better days.
❏ the less/least said (about sb/sth)the better [IDM ] (saying ) ရေငုံနေတာပဲကောင်းတယ်။
❏ (be) little/no better than [IDM ] နှင့်မထူး။ He's no better than a common thief.
❏ so much the better/worse (for sb/sth) [IDM ] ပို၍ ကောင်းသည်၊ ဆိုးသည်။ The result is not very important to us, but if we do win, (then) so much the better.
❏ that's better [IDM ] (အားပေးနှစ်သိမ့်စကား)။ အဲဟုတ်ပြီ။ Dry your eyes. That's better.
- She’s trying to find a better job.
- [better than] : The results were better than we had expected.
- [get better] : The situation is unlikely to get better in the foreseeable future.
- [much/far/a lot better] : I can think of far better ways of spending a million pounds.
- [little/no better] : There was a growing economic crisis in Asia, and things were no better in Europe.
- Maggie’s a better cook than I’ll ever be.
- [better at] : Alec is a lot better at sport than I am.
- She’s a little better today, but I think she should stay in bed.
- You’ll feel better when you’ve had something to eat.
- Is your headache any better?
- [better for something] : I had a good rest, and I’m feeling a lot better for it.
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