far
/fɑː/
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- 1 syllable
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- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Open ah vowel
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- Final r is pronounced in US English
US voice -> far
far / fɑ:(r) / adv (farther /'fɑ:ðǝ(r) / or further /'fɜ:ðǝ(r) /; farthest / 'fɑ:ðÇst / or furthest / 'fɜ:ðÇst /)
၁။ (usu in questions and negative sentences) အကွာ။ အလှမ်း။ ဝေးဝေး။ လှမ်းလှမ်း။ ‘How far is it to the bank from here?’ ‘It's not very far. ’ ❍ ‘How far have we walked?’ ‘A long way—about ten miles. ’ ❍ We didn't go far.
၂။ (followed by particles and preps )
(က) အလွန် ကွာဝေးစွာ။ ဝေးဝေး။ လှမ်းလှမ်း။ far above the clouds ❍ countries as far apart as Japan and Brazil ❍ There's a stream not far from here. ❍ Call me if you need me; I won't be far away/off. (ခ) လွန်လေပြီးသော ကာလက။ ရှေးသရောအခါ က။ ကြာမြင့်စွာ။ far back in history ❍ as far back as 1902 ❍ We danced far into the night. (ဂ) အလွန်အကျွံ။ live far beyond one's means ❍ He's fallen far behind in his work.
၃။ (followed by comparative adjs and advs ) ပို၍။ a far more reliable car ❍ a far better solution ❍ He runs far faster than his brother.
adj (farther / 'fɑ:ðǝ(r)/ or further /'fɜ:ðǝ (r)/; farthest /'fɑ:ðÇst/ or furthest /'fɜ:ðÇst/)
၁။ အစွန်ကျသော။ အစွန်းရောက်သော။ at the far end of the street ❍ on the far bank of the river ❍ She is on the far right of the party (ie holds extreme right-wing (Right5) views).
၂။ (dated or fml ) အလှမ်းကွာဝေးသော။ a far country ❍ to journey into far regions.
❏ as far as [IDM ] (ဖော်ပြသည့်နေရာ)အထိ။
I' ve read as far as the third chapter. ❍ I'll walk with you as far as the post office. ❍ We'll go by train as far as London, and then take a coach.
❏ as/so far as [ IDM ]
၁။ အထိသာ။ We didn't go as far as the others.
၂။ သမျှ။ သလောက်။ သရွေ့။ မျှလောက်။ အတိုင်း။ So far as I know/As far as I can see, that is highly unlikely. ❍ His parents supported him as far as they could.
၃။ အထိ။ မျှလောက်သာ။ She managed to crawl as far as the door. ❍ We've got as far as collecting our data but we haven't analysed it yet.
❏ as/so far as it, etc goes [ IDM ] မျှလောက်တော့။ အထိတော့။ Your plan is a good one as far as it goes, but there are several points you've not considered.
❏ as/so far as sb/sth is concerned [ IDM ] အနေနှင့် တော့။ ပတ်သက်လို့တော့။ The rise in interest rates will be disastrous as far as small firms are concerned. ❍ The car is fine as far as the engine is concerned, but the bodywork needs a lot of attention. ❍ As far as I'm concerned you can do what you like.
❏ as far as the eye can see [ IDM ] မျက်စိတစ်ဆုံး။ The prairies stretch on all sides as far as the eye can see.
❏ by far [ IDM ] မယှဉ်သာအောင်။ အပြတ်အသတ်။ It is quicker by far to go by train. ❍ She is the best by far/She is by far the best.
❏ carry/take sth too, etc far [ IDM ] လွန်လွန်းသည်။ Don't be such a prude—you can carry modesty too far! ❍ It's time to be serious; you've carried this joke far enough.
❏ far and away [ IDM ] အပြတ်အသတ်။ အများကြီး။ (ဗန်း) အရမ်း။ She's far and away the best actress in the movie.
❏ far and near/wide [ IDM ] အနှံ့အပြား။ နေရာတကာ။ They searched far and wide for the missing child.
❏ far-away adj
၁။ ဝေးကွာသော။ visit far-away places.
၂။ ငေးငိုင်နေသော။ You have a far-away look in your eyes.
❏ far be it from me to do sth (but…) [IDM ]
( infml ) ဝေးစွခြောက်ပါး။ စိတ်တောင်မကူးဘူး။ Far be it from me to interfere in your affairs but I would like to give you just one piece of advice.
❏ a far cry from sth / doing sth [ IDM ] (infml ) တခြားစီဖြစ်သော။ Life on a farm is a far cry from what I've been used to.
❏ the Far East n ကမ္ဘာ့အရှေ့ဖျားနိုင်ငံများ။
❏ far - fetched adj (usu derog)
၁။ သဘာဝမကျသော။ မရမက။ မဆီမဆိုင်။
၂။ (infml ) (of a story, an account, etc) ယုတ္တိမရှိသော။ မဖြစ်နိုင်သော။ The film's plot is interesting but rather far-fetched.
❏ far-flung adj
၁။ ဖြန့်ကြက်ထားသော။
a far-flung network of contacts.
၂။ ဝေးလံသော။ Her fame has reached the most far-flung corners of the globe.
❏ far from doing sth [ IDM ] မထင်လေနဲ့။
Far from enjoying dancing, he loathes it.
❏ far from sth / from doing sth [ IDM ] နေနေသာသာ။ The problem is far from easy
(ie is very difficult). ❍ Your account is far from (being) accurate.
❏ far from it [ IDM ] (infml ) ဝေးသေးတယ်။ နေနေသာသာ။ ‘Are you happy here?’ ‘No, far from it; I've never been so miserable in my life. ’
❏ far gone adj (infml derog ) (အမူး စသည်) လွန်နေသော။ မူးယစ်နေသော။ She was too far gone to understand anything we said to her.
❏ far - off adj ကွာလှမ်းသော။
a far-off country/galaxy.
❏ far-reaching adj အနှံ့အစပ်ထိ ရောက်ရှိသော။ a far-reaching inquiry
❍ far-reaching consequences/implications.
❏ far-sighted adj
၁။ (approv )
(က) (also far-seeing ) အမြော်အမြင် ကြီးသော။ အမြင်ကျယ်သော။
a far-sighted diplomat/entrepreneur.
(ခ) (of ideas, etc) အမြော်အမြင် ကြီးသော။ အမြင်ကျယ်သော။ far-sighted changes in the organization.
၂။ (esp US ) = LONG-SIGHTED အနီးမှုန်သော။
❏ go as/so far as to do sth/as that, etc [IDM ] သည် အထိ မပြောလို၊ မလုပ်လို စသည်။ I won't go so far as to say that he is dishonest (ie I won't actually accuse him of being dishonest, even though I might suspect him of it).
❏ go far [ IDM ] ၁။ တာသွားသည်။ A pound doesn't go very far (ie You can't buy very much for a pound) nowadays.
၂။ တာသွားသည်။ Four bottles of wine won't go far among twenty people.
❏ go far / a long way [ IDM ] တက်လမ်းရှိသည်။ Someone as intelligent as her should go far.
❏ go far / a long way towards sth / doing sth
[ IDM ] ထိရောက်သည်။ တာသွားသည်။ concessions which go a long way towards satisfying his critics ❍ The new legislation does not go far enough towards solving the problem.
❏ go too far [ IDM ] လွန်လွန်းသည်။
He's always been pretty crude but this time he's gone too far.
❏ in so far as [IDM ] သမျှ။ သလောက်။ သရွေ့။ That's the truth in so far as I know it.
❏ not be far off / out / wrong [IDM ] (infml ) မလွဲ လှဘူး။ Your guess wasn't far out.
❏ so far; thus far [ IDM ] (infml ) ယခုအထိ။ The results have been encouraging, so far.
❏ so far [ IDM ] (infml ) သ၍။ သမျှ။ I
trust him only so far (and no further).
❏ so far, so good [ IDM ] (saying ) ယခုအထိတော့ ကောင်းတုန်းပဲ။
- You can go outside and play, but don’t go far.
- [far from] : The main post office is not far from the library.
- [far away] : Then from far away the train whistle sounded.
- [far back/above/below etc] : He always sat as far back as possible in the lecture hall.
- [how far?] : How far does this road go?
- How far is it to the next town?
- [as far as] : She had got as far as the museum before he found her.
- She moved to the far side of the bed to make room.
- He saw Lynn standing at the far end of the bar.
- [the far left/right] : I’m the one on the far left.
- [the far north/south/east/west] : A little village in the far north of Scotland
- A traveller from a far country
- [far more/bigger/better etc] : The situation is bad in England, but it is far worse in Scotland.
- The Prime Minister is far more interested in the vote.
- [far above/below] : There are more than 97 signatures, which is far above the required number.
- The results were far below our expectations.
- [far too much/big/easy etc] : The issue is far too important to be discussed behind closed doors.
- You eat far too much.
- How far have you got with the planning?
- We want to stress just how far the committee has progressed.
- We’re not going to get very far if we don’t trust each other.
- How far do you think the novel supports the idea that women should never rely on men?
- The latest opinion polls show how far the government’s popularity has fallen.
- [go too far] : Do you think feminism has gone too far?
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