life history

US pronunciation

American soundlife history

lifehistory

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life - history -> life history

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

life / laÇf / n (pl lives /laÇvz / )

၁။ [U] အသက်။ ဇီဝ။ the origins of life on earth ❍ The body showed no signs of life.
၂။ [U] သက်ရှိအရာ၊ လောက။ animal and plant life ❍ Is there life on Mars?
၃။ [C] အသက်ဆုံးရှုံးမှု။ အသေအပျောက်။ သေရေးရှင်ရေး။ The riot was brought under control without loss of life (ie without anyone being killed). ❍ Getting food to the refugees is now a matter of life and death.
၄။ [U] ဘဝ။ လောက။ He does not want much from life. ❍ What do you expect? That’s life (ie These things happen and must be expected and accepted)!
၅။ [C] အသက်။ Doctors worked through the night to save the life of the injured man. ❍ Three lives were lost (ie Three people died) in the accident.
၆။ (က) [C] သက်တမ်း။ She lived her whole (adult) life in the country. (ခ) [C] သက်တမ်း။ I’ve lived here all my life.
၇။ [U] (က) တစ်သက်တာ။ a friend/job/membership for life. (ခ) (infml ) တစ်သက်တစ်ကျွန်း အပြစ်ဒဏ်။ be given/get/ do life. See also LIFE SENTENCE
၈။ [U] (က) လောက။ ဘဝ။ As a taxi driver you really see (ie experience) life.
(ခ) လှုပ်ရှားမှု။ There are few signs of life here in the evenings.
၉။ [U] တက်ကြွမှု။ စိတ်ဝင်စားမှု။ Children are always so full of life. ❍ The show’s very flat — put some more life into it.
၁၀။ [U, C] ဘဝ။ one’s private/public/family life ❍ city/village life ❍ have an easy/ a hard life ❍ emigrate and start a new life in America ❍ Her work is her life (ie the most important thing she does). ❍ This is the life (for me) (ie the best way to live)!
၁၁။ [C] အတ္ထုပ္ပတ္တိ။ write a life of Tolstoy.
၁၂။ [U] သက်ရှိ၊ ပကတိ (အရာဝတ္ထု၊ မြင်ကွင်း)။ a portrait drawn/taken from life ❍ a life class (ie one in which art students draw, etc from living models).
၁၃။ [C] သက်တမ်း။ throughout the life of the present government ❍ a long-life battery.
၁၄။ [C] အလှည့်။ You’ve had three lives— you’ve got one left.
❏ bring sb/sth to life [IDM ] အသက်ဝင်လာစေသည်။ The arrival of the band brought the party to life. ❍ Her books succeed in bringing historical characters to life.
❏ come to life [IDM ]
၁။ အသက်ဝင်လာသည်။ စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ် ကောင်းလာသည်။ When the discussion turned to literature, she suddenly came to life. ❍ The café only comes to life at night.
၂။ သက်ဝင်လှုပ်ရှားလာသည်။ In the ballet all the toys come to life.
❏ for dear life/for one’s life [IDM ] အသက်နှင့် ခန္ဓာ အိုးစားမကွဲအောင်။ holding on for dear life ❍ Run for your life!
❏ for the life of one [IDM ] (infml ) ဘယ်လိုမျှ။ I cannot for the life of me remember her name.
❏ frighten/scare the life out of sb [IDM ] လိပ်ပြာ စဉ်သွားအောင် လှန့်သည်။
❏ lay down one’s life (for sb/sth) [IDM ] (rhet ) အသက်ပေးသည်။ He laid down his life for the cause of freedom.
❏ life-and-death (also life-or-death ) adj သေရေး ရှင်ရေး။ drought victims engaged in a life-and-death struggle to survive.
❏ life and limb [IDM ] အသက်အန္တရာယ်။ risk life and limb to rescue others.
❏ the life and soul of sth [IDM ] (infml ) ပွဲစည်စေသော သူ။
❏ life cycle n (biology ) ဇီဝစက်။ သက်ရှိများ ဘဝတစ်လျှောက် အဆင့်ဆင့်ဖြစ်စဉ်။ the life cycle of the butterfly.
❏ life expectancy n [U] (က) (ပျမ်းမျှ) သက်တမ်း။ Women have a longer life expectancy than men. (ခ) သက်တမ်း။ the life expectancy of the average car/the present government.
❏ life-giving adj အသက်ဆက်သော။ life-giving energy/food.
❏ life-history n = LIFE STORY
❏ life imprisonment n [U] တစ်သက်တာ ထောင်ဒဏ်။ တစ်သက်တစ်ကျွန်းပြစ်ဒဏ်။ be sentenced to life imprisonment.
❏ life insurance n [U] အသက်အာမခံ။
❏ life -jacket n အသက်ကယ်အကျႌ။ ❍ LIFEBELT
❏ lifeless adj
၁။ အသက်မပါသော။ a lifeless performance.
၂။ သေနေသော။ အသက်ကင်းမဲ့ သော။ He knelt beside her lifeless body.
၃။ သက်မဲ့ဖြစ်သော။ lifeless stones ❍ a lifeless planet.
❏ life peer n (Brit ) မိမိတစ်သက်တာမျှသာ ရပိုင်ခွင့် ရှိသော မှူးမတ်ရာထူး။
❏ life preserver n (US ) = LIFEBELT
❏ lifer / 'laÇfǝ(r) / n (sl ) တစ်သက်တစ်ကျွန်း ပြစ်ဒဏ်ခံရသူ။
❏ life-saver n အသက်။ The radio was a life-saver during my illness—I couldn’t have done without it.
❏ life sciences n [pl] သက်ရှိသတ္တဝါ၊ အပင်များ လေ့လာသော ဇီဝဗေဒ၊ ရုက္ခဗေဒစသည့် ပညာရပ်များ။ Biology and botany are life sciences.
❏ life sentence n ထောင်ဒဏ်တစ်သက်။ တစ်သက် တစ်ကျွန်းပြစ်ဒဏ်။ serve a life sentence.
❏ life size n [U] ပကတိအရွယ်။ photographs enlarged to life size.
❏ life-size (also life-sized ) adj ပကတိအရွယ်ရှိသော။ a life-size(d) model of a horse.
❏ life-span n သက်တမ်း။ insects with a life-span of only a few hours.
❏ life story (also life history ) n အတ္ထုပ္ပတ္တိ။ She told me her life story.
❏ life-support adj အသက်ဆက်ပေးသော။ a patient on a life-support machine/system.
❏ life-threatening adj အသက်အန္တရာယ်ပြုနိုင်သော။
❏ life-work (also life’s-work ) n (usu sing ) မိမိတစ်ဘဝလုံး မြှုပ်နှံထားသောလုပ်ငန်း။ This hospital has been my life’s-work.
❏ not on your life! [IDM ] (infml ) မဖြစ်နိုင်တာ။
❏ take one’s (own) life [IDM ] မိမိကိုယ်မိမိ သတ်သေသည်။
❏ take one’s life in one’s hands [IDM ] အသက်စွန့်ရသည်။ အသက်ကိုဖက်နှင့်ထုပ်ရသည်။ You take your life in your hands simply crossing the road these days!
❏ take sb’s life [IDM ] သတ်သည်။
❏ to the life [IDM ] တထေရာတည်း။ In the screen biography he plays Charlie Chaplin to the life.

More examples

She devoted her life to helping others.
He had a long and happy life.
[spend your life] : Don’t spend your whole life worrying about money.
[in (all) your life] : I have never been so disappointed in my life.
[all your life] : She’s lived in California all her life.
[early life] : He spent his early life in Malaysia.
[adult life] : He lived most of his adult life in prison.
[in later life] : It was in later life that he wrote some of his best poems.
[late in life] : She got married late in life.
[for life] : The accident left her scarred for life.
His life revolves around his children.
It was an event that would change his life forever.
[lead a happy/normal/interesting etc life] : I just want to be able to lead a normal life.
[a hard life] : She looks like someone who’s had a very hard life.
I had no idea what life with a baby would be like.
[city/village/prison/university etc life] : Escape from the bustle and noise of city life for a while.
[the life of someone] : The life of a film star is not always a glamorous one.
[married life] : How’s married life suiting you?
He’s a person who really loves life.
His mother has a great enthusiasm for life.
[see life] : You really see life in my job.
He believed his life was in danger.
[claim lives] : The disease is still claiming thousands of lives every year.
[risk your life] : They risk their lives to protect the people they love.

Synonyms

existence, being, time, living, days, years, activity, animal, animateness, animation, attainment, autobiography, behavior, bio, biography, biological, body, breath, brio, career, circumstances, conduct, confession, consciousness, continuance, course, creature, curriculum vitae, cycle, dash, development, duration, endurance, energy, enjoyment, enlightenment, enthusiasm, entity, epoch, era, esprit, essence, excitement, expectancy, extent, flesh, flesh and blood, generation, get-up-and-go, go, growth, hand one is dealt, happiness, heart, high spirits, history, human, human being, human condition, impulse, individual, journal, journey, kick, knowledge, length, life cycle, life expectancy, life span, life story, lifeblood, lifer, lifestyle, lifetime, liveliness, living being, living thing, longevity, man, memoir, memorial, metabolism, mortal, mortal being, natural life, oomph, orbit, organism, participation, period, person, person's experiences, personage, personality, pilgrimage, presence, realization, record, season, sentience, soul, span, sparkle, spirit, story, subsistence, substantiality, suffering, survival, symbiosis, trials and tribulations, verve, viability, vicissitudes, vigor, vital spark, vitality, vivacity, way of life, wildlife, woman, world, zest, zing, Ã©lan, Ã©lan vital

Antonyms

abstract, apathy, concept, death, decrease, dullness, end, idleness, ignorance, inactivity, inanimacy, inanimate, indifference, laziness, lethargy, misery, plant, sorrow, unhappiness, woe