in this day and age

day / deÇ / n

၁။ (က) [U] တစ်နေ့။ နေထွက်မှ နေဝင်ထိ အချိန်။ He has been working all day. ❍ When I woke up, it was already day.
(ခ) [C] ၂၄ နာရီ။ တစ်ရက်။ There are seven days in a week. ❍ I saw Tom three days ago. ❍ I'll be seeing Mary in a few day's time (ie a few days from now). ❍ ‘What day of the week is it?’ ‘It's Monday’. ❍ Christmas day/market day.
(ဂ) [C] တစ်နေ့တာ အလုပ်လုပ် ချိန်။ I've done a good day's work. ❍ Have you had a hard day at the office? ❍ Her working day is seven hours. ❍ The employees are demanding a six-hour day and a five-day week. See also OPEN DAY
၂။ [C usu pl ] တစ်ချိန်။ ခေတ်။ လက်ထက်။ ဟိုတုန်းက။ in his younger days ❍ I was much happier in those days (ie at that time). ❍ in the days of Queen Victoria/in Queen Victoria's day ❍ in days of old/in the old days (ie in former times) ❍ present-day thought/opinion.
❏ all in a day's work [IDM ] လုပ်ရိုးလုပ်စဉ် အလုပ်။
Injecting animals is all in a day's work for a vet.
❏ any day now [IDM ] မကြာမီ။ တစ်ရက်နှစ်ရက် အတွင်း။
The letter should arrive any day now.
❏ by day/night [IDM ] နေ့မှာ။ ညမှာ။ The fugitives travelled by night and rested by day.
❏ carry/win the day [IDM ] (infml ) အောင်ပွဲခံသည်။ အောင်နိုင်သည်။
Despite strong opposition, the ruling party carried the day.
❏ day after day [IDM ] နေ့စဉ်ရက်ဆက်။
Day after day she waited in vain for him to telephone her.
❏ the day after tomorrow [IDM ] သန်ဘက်ခါ။ If today is Wednesday, the day after tomorrow will be Friday.
❏ the day before yesterday [IDM ] တမြန်နေ့။ If today is Wednesday, the day before yesterday was Monday.
❏ day-boy, day-girl ns (Brit) နေ့ကျောင်းသား။ နေ့ ကျောင်းသူ။
❏ day by day [IDM ] တဖြည်းဖြည်း။ တစ်နေ့တခြား။ Day by day she learnt more about her job.
❏ day care n [U] နေ့ကလေးထိန်း (ကိစ္စ၊ ဌာန)။ Day care is provided by the company she works for. ❍ a day-care centre.
❏ day centre n (Brit ) အလုပ်လက်မဲ့ သက်ကြီး ရွယ်အိုများကို နေ့အချိန်တာဝန်ယူသည့်ရိပ်သာ။
❏ day-dream n စိတ်ကူးယဉ်အိပ်မက်။ စိတ်ကူးယဉ်ခြင်း။
She stared out of the window, lost in a day-dream. v ~ (about sb/sth) စိတ်ကူးယဉ်သည်။ He sat there day-dreaming ( about his girlfriend).
❏ day in, day out [IDM ] တစ်နေဝင် တစ်နေထွက်။ နေ့စဉ် နေ့တိုင်း။
Day in, day out, no matter what the weather is like, she walks ten miles.
❏ day nursery (Brit ) (US day care center ) n နေ့ ကလေးထိန်းဌာန။ နေ့ကလေးထိန်းကျောင်း။
❏ a day of reckoning [IDM ] (fml ) ပြစ်ဒဏ် စီရင်ခံရမည့် အချိန်။
Critics of the government's housing policy think the day of reckoning cannot be far away.
❏ day off n အလုပ်အားရက်၊ နားရက်။
I work from Tuesday to Saturday, and Sunday and Monday are my days off.
❏ day out n တစ်နေ့တာ လည်ပတ်ခြင်း။
The schoolchildren had a day out at the seaside.
❏ day release n (Birt ) [U] အလုပ်သမားများအား ပညာရေး အတွက် အားရက်ပေးသည့်စနစ်။
❏ day return n (Brit ) နေ့ချင်းပြန်လက်မှတ်။
❏ day-room n (ဆေးရုံစသည်တွင်) ဧည့်ခန်း။
❏ sb's/sth's days are numbered [IDM ] ယွန်းမှာကတော့ နေ့လားညလားပဲ။
His disease is incurable—I'm afraid his days are numbered. ❍ This factory is no longer profitable, so its days are numbered (ie it will soon close).
❏ day-school n နေ့ကျောင်း။
Compare Boarding-School
❏ day-to-day adj (က) တစ်နေ့ချင်း။
I have organized the cleaning on a day-to-day basis, until the usual cleaner returns.
(ခ) နေ့စဉ် (လုပ်ငန်း)။
She has been looking after the day-to-day administration.
❏ day- trip n (esp Brit ) နေ့ချင်းပြန်ခရီး။ a day- trip to France. day-tripper n
❏ from day to day; from one day to the next [IDM ] နေ့နှင့်အမျှ။ တစ်နေ့ရွှေ တစ်နေ့ငွေ။ Things change from day to day. ❍ You don't know what his mood will be from one day to the next.
❏ have had one's day [IDM ] ခေတ်ကုန်ပြီ။ ခေတ်မရှိတော့။
He was a great singer once but now he's had his day. ❍ Colonialism has had its day (ie is over).
❏ if he's, she's, etc a day [IDM ] အောက်ထစ်။ အနည်း ဆုံး။ He's eighty if he's a day!
❏ in one's day [IDM ] သူ့ခေတ် သူ့အချိန်တုန်းက။
In his day, he was a very influential politician. ❍ She was a great beauty in her day (ie when she was young).
❏ in this day and age [IDM ] ခုအချိန်။ ခုကာလ။ ခုခေတ်။
❏ it's not sb's day [IDM ] (infml ) ပြဿဒါးနေ့။ My car broke down, and then I locked myself out—it's just not my day!
❏ make sb' day [IDM ] (infml ) ပျော်ရွှင်ကြည်နူးစေသည်။
If she wins, it'll make her day.
❏ make a day of it [IDM ] (infml ) တစ်နေကုန် တစ်နေခန်း (ပျော်ကြသည်)။ We took a picnic lunch and made a day of it.
❏ a nine days' wonder [IDM ](Brit) ခွေးရူးကောင်းစား တစ်မွန်းတည့်မျှသာ။ ခဏပန်း။ As a pop star she was a nine days' wonder—she only made one successful record.
❏ one day [IDM ] တစ်နေ့နေ့။ တစ်ချိန်ချိန်။ One day I'll get my revenge.
❏ one of these days [IDM ] မကြာမီအတွင်း။ ဒီရက်အတွင်း။ One of these days he'll realize what a fool he's been.
❏ one of those days [IDM ] ကံဆိုး မိုးမှောင်ကျတဲ့နေ့။ I've had one of those days: my train was late, and I lost my wallet.
❏ some day [IDM ] တစ်နေ့နေ့ တစ်ချိန်ချိန် (မှာ)။ Some day I'll be famous.
❏ that'll be the day [IDM ] (ironic ) ကျားသားမိုးကြိုး။ ဟုတ်မှလုပ်ပါ။ ဟုတ်ပါ့မလား။ He says he'll do the ironing. ‘That'll be the day!’
❏ these days [IDM ] ခုအချိန်။ ခုအခါ။ ခုကာလ။
❏ those were the days [IDM ] ပျော်ရွှင်ကြည်နူးခဲ့ရတဲ့ တစ်ချိန်။ Do you remember when we were first married? Those were the days!
❏ to the day [IDM ] တိတိ။ It's three years to the day since we met.
❏ to this day [IDM ] ခုချိန်ထိ။ ဒီနေ့ထိ။ To this day, I still don't know why she did it.