nicely

nice /naÇs/ adj (-r, -st )

၁။ (က) ကောင်းသော။ ချိုသာသော။ သာယာသော။ အရသာရှိသော။ a nice day/ smile/ remark ❍ nice weather/ children ❍ That tastes nice! ❍ One of the nicest things about her is her sense of humour. ❍ We had a nice time at the beach. ❍ Nice to meet you! ❍ I asked him in the nicest possible way not to park in front of my garage. (ခ) ~ (to sb) သဘောကောင်းသော။ ဖော်ရွေသော။ It's very nice of you to let me stay. ❍ He's not very nice to her when he's had a few drinks. Compare NASTY
၂။ (ironic) (ငေါ့သံဖြင့်) ကောင်း လိုက်တဲ့။ This is a nice mess you've got us into! ❍ That's a nice thing to say!
၃။ သိမ်မွေ့သော။ a nice distinction ❍ a nice point of law (ie one that may be difficult to decide).
၄။ (usu in negative expressions) ရိုးသား ဖြောင့်မတ်သော။ She's not too nice in her business methods.
၅။ (approv) အရသာရှိသော။ ဇိမ်ရှိသော။ a nice comfy bed ❍ a nice cold drink ❍ You need a nice hot bath.
❏ do nicely [IDM] (esp in the continuous tenses) ဟန်ကျနေသည်။ Her new business is doing very nicely. ❍ The patient is doing nicely. niceness n [U]
❏ nice and [IDM] (infml approv) (နာမဝိသေသနနှင့် ကြိယာဝိသေသနရှေ့၌သုံးသည်။ ) စိတ်ချမ်းသာစရာ။ It was nice and cool in the woods. ❍ Everybody arrived nice and early.
❏ nicely adv
၁။ သပ်သပ်ရပ်ရပ်။ ပိုင်ပိုင်နိုင်နိုင်။ nicely dressed ❍ It was a difficult thing to say, but he put it very nicely.
၂။ (infml) ကောင်းစွာ။ အံကိုက်။ ချိန်ကိုက်၍။ That will suit me nicely. ❍ My tomato plants are coming along very nicely. ❍ The programme is nicely timed to coincide with the opening of the exhibition.
❏ nice work if you can get it [IDM] (မလိုတမာသဘော ဖြင့် သုံးသည်။ ) ရရင်တော့ကောင်းတာပေါ့။ ‘He was paid £200 for a 10-minute speech. ’ ‘Nice work if you can get it!’