course of action

course /kↄ:s/ n

၁။ [C usu sing ] လမ်းကြောင်း။
The plane was on/off course (ie going/ not going in the intended direction). ❍ The ship's course was due north. ❍ The captain set a course for (ie directed the ship/ plane towards) New York. ❍ trace the course of the Charles River.
၂။ [C usu sing ] (က) ရှေးရှုရာ။ ဦးတည့်ရာ။ His arguments suddenly changed course and he began to attack the government. ❍ The company is on course to achieve its projected turnover for the year. See also COLLISION COURSE (ခ) (also course of action ) [C] ဆောင်ရွက်ပုံနည်းလမ်း။ What course of action would you recommend? ❍ There are various courses open to us. ❍ The wisest course would be to ignore it.
၃။ [sing] ~ of sth (ဖြစ်)စဉ်။ In the course of (ie during) my long life I've seen many changes. ❍ the course of history ❍ I didn't sleep once during the entire course of the journey.
၄။ [C]~ (in/on sth) (education ) (ဘာသာရပ် ဆိုင်ရာ)သင်တန်း၊ သင်ရိုး။ a French/ a chemistry/ an art course ❍ take /do a two-year postgraduate course in accountancy ❍ go on an intensive training course ❍ The college runs/ offers specialist language course. See also CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, FOUNDATION COURSE, REFRESHER COURSE, SANDWICH COURSE
၅။ [C] ~ (of sth) (medical ) (ကုသမှုဆိုင်ရာ) ဆေးပတ်။ prescribe a course of antibiotics/ injections/ X-ray treatment.
၆။ [C] တစ်မည်ပြီးတစ်မည် တည်ခင်းသည့် စားပွဲတွင် တစ်မည်မည်။ a five-course dinner ❍ The main course was a vegetable stew.
၇။ [C] (က) ဂေါက်ကွင်း။ He set a new course record. (ခ) (ယှဉ်ပြိုင်ရာ)တာ။ a five- mile rowing course. See also ASSAULT COURSE, RACECOURSE
၈။ [C] (နံရံအုတ်ကျောက်)အထပ်လွှာ။ damp-proof course.
v (esp rhet ) တွေတွေစီးဆင်းသည်။ စီးကျသည်။ ဖြာကျသည်။ Tears coursed down her cheeks.
❏ course of action n (pl courses of action ) = Course ၂ (ခ)
❏ course-work n [U] သင်တန်းတစ်ခုအတွင်း ကျောင်းသား တစ်ဦး၏ ဆောင်ရွက်ချက်။ Course-work accounts for 40% of the total marks.
❏ in course of sth [IDM ] (fml ) …ဆဲ။ a house in course of construction (ie being built).
❏ in the course of time [IDM ] သူ့အချိန်တန်တော့။ Be patient. I'm sure you will be promoted in the course of time.
❏ in the ordinary, normal, etc course of events, things, etc [IDM ] ပုံမှန်အားဖြင့်။ In the ordinary course of events, I visit her once a week.
❏ of course [IDM ]
၁။ (အလေးအနက်ပြု ဖြေကြားရာတွင် yes, no ကဲ့သို့ (သို့) ၎င်းတို့အစား အသုံးပြုသော စကား)။ ‘Do you like my mother?’ ‘Of course I do. ’ ❍ ‘Did she go back to him?’ ‘No, of course not!’.
၂။ (ရပါတယ်၊ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်၊ လုပ်ပါ စသည်ဖြင့် yes ကဲ့သို့ အခွင့်ပြုကြောင်းအနက် ဖြင့် သုံးသော အယဉ်အကျေးစကား)။ ‘May I try one of your cakes?’ ‘Of course—help yourself. ’ ❍ ‘He will be remembered as a great President’. ‘Of course, but not with affection’.
၃။ (နားလည်လက်ခံကြောင်း ဖော်ပြရာတွင် သုံးသောစကား)။ That was 40 years ago, but of course you wouldn't remember it.
❏ run/ take its course [IDM ] သူ့ဘာသာသူ ဖြစ်နေသည်၊ ဖြစ်သွားသည်။ We can't cure the disease; it must run its course. ❍ The decision cannot be reversed; the law must take its course (ie the punishment must be carried out).