look

look / lƱk / v

၁။ ~ (at sb / sth) ကြည့်သည်။ ရှုသည်။
If you look carefully you can just see the church from here. ❍ ‘Has the milkman been yet?’ ‘I’ll just look and see. ’ ❍ I was looking the other way when the goal was scored. ❍ Look to see whether the road is clear before you cross. ❍ She looked at me and smiled.
၂။ ~ (for sb/sth) ရှာသည်။
I can’t find my book — I’ve looked everywhere. ❍ Where have you been? We’ve been looking for you. ❍ Are you still looking for a job? ❍ Negotiators are looking for a peaceful settlement to the dispute.
၃။ ~ (at sth) (esp imperative) ကြည့်သည်။ ကြည့်စမ်း။ Look at the time! We’re going to be late. ❍ Look, John! There’s Gavin. ❍ Can’t you look where you’re going? You nearly knocked me over!
၄။ (က) …ပုံပေါက်သည်။ look healthy / ill / pale / puzzled / sad / tired ❍ That book looks interesting. ❍ That looks an interesting book. ❍ You made me look a complete fool! (ခ) ~ (to sb) like sb/sth; ~ (to sb) as if… / as though… တူသည်။ …ထင်ရသည်။ ပုံပေါက်သည်။ That photograph doesn’t look like her at all. ❍ It looks like rain. ❍ It looks as if it’s going to rain. ❍ You look as though you slept badly. ❍ FEEL
၅။ မူသည်။ The house looks east. ❍ The hotel looks towards the sea.
interj ကြည့်စမ်း။ Look, don’t you think you’re overreacting?
n
၁။ [C usu sing ] ကြည့်ခြင်း။ Have / Take a look at this letter.
၂။ [C] ပုံပန်း။ a look of pleasure /fear/ relief ❍ I knew something was wrong — everyone was giving me funny looks (ie looking at me in a strange way).
၃။ [C] ပုံပန်း။ အသွင်။ The long lean look is in this year. ❍ a new-look hairstyle ❍ They’ve given the shop a completely new look (ie designed or decorated it differently). ❍ The house has a Mediterranean look about it.
၄။ [C usu sing ] ရှာကြည့်ခြင်း။ I’ve had a good look (for it) but I can’t find it anywhere.
၅။ looks [pl] ရုပ်။ အသွင်။ ပုံပန်း။ She has her father’s good looks.
❏ be looking to do sth [IDM ] နည်းလမ်းရှာဖွေသည်။ The government is looking to reduce inflation by a further two per cent this year.
❏ by / from the look of sb / sth [IDM ] ကြည့်ရတာတော့။ …ပုံပေါက်တယ်။ It’s going to rain today, by the look of it.
❏ look after oneself/sb [PHRV ]
၁။ ကြည့်ရှုစောင့်ရှောက် သည်။ Who’s going to look after the children while you’re away?
၂။ သိတတ်သည်။ He’s good at looking after himself/his own interests.
❏ look after sth [PHRV ] ကြည့်ရှုစောင့်ရှောက်သည်။ I’m looking after his affairs while he’s in hospital.
❏ look ahead (to sth) [PHRV ] ရှေ့ရေးမျှော်မှန်းသည်။ Have you looked ahead to what you’ll be doing in five years’ time?
❏ look-alike n ချွတ်စွပ်။ တထေရာတည်း။ a Madonna look-alike.
❏ look at sth [PHRV ]
၁။ ကြည့်ရှုစစ်ဆေးသည်။ Your ankle is badly swollen—I think the doctor ought to look at it. ❍ I haven’t had time to look at (ie read) the papers yet. ❍ I’m taking my car to the garage to be looked at.
၂။ ကြည့်သည်။ လေ့လာသည်။ The committee wouldn’t even look at my proposal. ❍ The implications of the new law will need to be looked at.
၃။ ရှုမြင်သည်။ ကြည့်သည်။ The Americans look at life differently from the British. ❍ Looked at from that point of view, his decision is easier to understand.
❏ look back (on sth) [PHRV ] ပြန်လည်တွေးတော ကြည့်သည်။ look back on one’s childhood / career.
❏ look bad ; not look good [IDM ] အရုပ်ဆိုးသည်။ It looks bad not going to your own brother’s wedding.
❏ look bad (for sb) [IDM ] အခြေအနေ ဆိုးပုံပေါ်သည်။ He’s had another heart attack; things are looking bad for him, I’m afraid (ie he is probably going to die).
❏ look down on sb/sth [PHRV ] အထင်အမြင် သေးသည်။ She looks down on people who’ve never been to university.
❏ looker n (infml approv sexist ) (ဗန်း)မှည့်သည်။ She’s a real looker!
❏ look for sth [PHRV ] မျှော်လင့်သည်။ စောင့်စားသည်။ We shall be looking for an improvement in your work this term.
❏ look forward to sth / doing sth [PHRV ] စောင့်စားသည်။ မျှော်လင့်သည်။ look forward to one’s retirement / the weekend / a trip to the theatre ❍ We’re really looking forward to seeing you again.
❏ look good [IDM ] အခြေအနေ ကောင်းပုံရသည်။ အလား အလာကောင်းသည်။ This year’s sales figures are looking good.
❏ look here [IDM ] ဒီမှာ။ Now look here, it wasn’t my fault that we missed the train.
❏ look in (on sb / at…) [PHRV ] ဝင်ကြည့်သည်။ ဝင်သည်။ The doctor will look in again this evening. ❍ Why don’t you look in (on me) next time you’re in town?
❏ look-in n ❏ (not) give sb / get / have a look-in [IDM ] (Brit infml ) ပါဝင်ခွင့်ရသည် (သို့) မရ။ She talks so much that the rest of us never get a look-in. ❍ They were forced to cut their prices in order to get a look-in.
❏ -looking (forming compound adjs ) …ပုံ ပေါက်သော။ a strange-looking place ❍ She's not bad-looking (ie She is quite attractive).
❏ looking-glass n (dated ) ကြည့်မှန်။ မှန်။
❏ look into sth [PHRV ] စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးသည်။ A working party has been set up to look into the problem ❍ His disappearance is being looked into by the police.
❏ look on [PHRV ] လက်ပိုက်ကြည့်နေသည်။ Passers-by simply looked on as he was attacked and robbed.
❏ look on sb / sth as sb / sth [PHRV ] ထင်မြင် ယူဆ သည်။ She’s looked on as the leading authority on the subject.
❏ look on sb / sth with sth [PHRV ] သဘောထားသည်။ I look on him / his behaviour with contempt.
❏ (not) look oneself [IDM ] နေကောင်းပုံရသည် (မရ)။ You’re not looking yourself today (eg You look tired or ill).
❏ look out [PHRV ] သတိထား။ Look out! There’s a car coming.
❏ look out for sb / sth [PHRV ]
၁။ သတိထား။ You should look out for pickpockets. ❍ Do look out for spelling mistakes in your work.
၂။ ရှာသည်။ look out for a bargain ❍ I’ll look out for you at the conference.
❏ look sth out (for sb / sth) [PHRV ] ရှာကြည့်သည်။ I’ll look out some old clothes for you to wear.
❏ look over sth [PHRV ] ကြည့်ရှုစစ်ဆေးသည်။ We must look over the house before we decide to rent it.
❏ look sth over [PHRV ] လှန်လှောကြည့်သည်။ Here’s today’s post. I’ve looked it over and there’s nothing very urgent.
❏ look round / around [PHRV ]
၁။ လှည့်ကြည့်သည်။ She looked round when she heard the noise.
၂။ လျှောက်ပတ်ကြည့်သည်။ We’re going to look round a little before deciding where to buy a house.
❏ look round sth [PHRV ] လှည့်ပတ်ကြည့်ရှုသည်။ Shall we look round the cathedral this afternoon?
❏ look through sb [PHRV ] မြင်လျက်သားနှင့် မမြင်ယောင် ဆောင်သည်။ She just looked straight through me.
❏ look through sth [PHRV ] လှန်လှောကြည့်သည်။ She looked through her notes before the examination.
❏ look to sb for sth ; look to sb to do sth [PHRV ] အားကိုးတကြီး မျှော်လင့်ကြသည်။ We are looking to you for help. ❍ Many people are looking to the new council to stamp out corruption.
❏ look to sth [PHRV ] အလေးဂရုပြုသည်။ The country must look to its defences.
❏ look up [PHRV ] (infml ) ဦးမော့လာသည်။ Inflation is coming down and things are definitely looking up!
❏ look up (from sth) [PHRV ] မော့ကြည်သည်။ မော်ကြည့် သည်။ She looked up (from her book) as I entered the room.
❏ look sb up [PHRV ] (infml ) ဝင်လာသည်။ Do look me up the next time you’re in London.
❏ look sb up and down [IDM ] ခြေဆုံးခေါင်းဆုံး ကြည့် သည်။
❏ look sth up [PHRV ] ရှာကြည့်သည်။ Look up the time of the next train in the timetable.
❏ look up to sb [PHRV ] ကြည်ညိုသည်။ လေးစားသည်။ She has always looked up to her father.
❏ never/not look back [IDM ] (infml ) ဆင့်ကဲ အောင်မြင်မှု ရရှိသည်။ Her first novel was published three years ago and since then she hasn’t looked back.
❏ not much to look at [IDM ] (infml ) ကြည့်ပျော်ရှုပျော် မရှိ။ The house isn’t much to look at but it’s quite spacious inside.
❏ to look at sb/sth [IDM ] ပုံပန်းအရတော့။ To look at him you’d never think he was a successful businessman.