one or two
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one - or - two -> one or two
၁။ ၁။ တစ်။ ဧက။
၂။ တစ်။ The fee will be one hundred and fifty pounds. ❍ The distance between them was over one thousand metres.
၃။ တစ်။ There's only one piece of cake left. ❍ I found eight people living in one room.
၄။ (က) တစ်။ One of my friends lives in Brighton. ❍ She's the only one who tried to help me. ❍ One place I'd really like to visit is Bali. (ခ) တစ် (…တည်း)။ He's the one person I can always trust. ❍ The one way to succeed is to work hard. (ဂ) တစ်။ one morning/ afternoon last week ❍ One day (ie At an indefinite time in the future) you'll be grateful for my advice.
၅။ (usu fml ) (ဆိုသူ) တစ် (ဦး)။ The author of the article turned out to be one Stanley Carter.
၆။ တစ်။ The two girls are so alike that strangers find it difficult to tell (the) one from the other. ❍ I see you add the egg before the milk— that's one way of doing it (ie there are other, possibly better, ways).
၇။ တစ် (ကျိတ်တည်း၊ လမ်းတည်း)။ They all went off in one direction. ❍ The workers were all of one mind (ie all had the same opinion).
၈။ (infml esp US ) (a,an အစား) တစ်။ It was one hell of a match (ie a very good and exciting match). ❍That's one handsome guy!
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၁။ တစ်… ။ I forgot to bring a pen. Can you lend me one? (Compare: I can't find my pen. Have you seen it?) ❍ There have been a lot of burglaries in this area. I read about one this morning. See also PROP- WORD
၂။ ~ of (… အနက်) တစ်။ She's knitting a sweater for one of her grandchildren. ❍ We think of you as one (ie a member) of the family.
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၁။ ဟာ။ အရာ။ I prefer that one. ❍ Which ones have you read? ❍ Your plan is a good one. ❍ Her new car goes faster than the old one.
၂။ the one(s) ဟာ။ အရာ။ Our hotel is the one nearest the beach. ❍ Students who do well in examinations are often the ones who ask questions in class.
၃။ (pl အဖြစ် အသုံးများသည်။ ) …သူ၊ …တို့/တွေ စသည်။ It's time the little ones were in bed. ကလေးတွေ အိပ်ဖို့ အချိန်တန်ပြီ။ ❍ pray to the Holy One for forgiveness. သူတော်စင် (ဘုရားသခင်)ထံ ခွင့်လွှတ်ဖို့ ဆုတောင်းပါ။
pron (fml ) …သူ။ She was never one to gossip (ie the sort of person who does). ❍ He's not one who is easily frightened.
pers pron (fml ) တစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်အနေဖြင့်။ တစ်စုံ တစ်ယောက် အနေဖြင့်။ In these circumstances one prefers to be alone. ❍ One must be sure of one's facts before making a public accusation.
❏ be at one (with sb/sth) [IDM ] တစ်စိတ်တည်း ဖြစ်သည်။ တူညီသည်။ I'm at one with you. ❍ We are at one on this subject.
❏ get sth in one [IDM ] (infml ) ချက်ချင်း နားလည်သည်။ ‘We have to attract younger customers. ’ ‘Exactly, you've got it in one!’
❏ get one over sb/ sth [IDM ] (infml ) ကျောသည်။ They got one over us in the end by deciding to speak in German.
❏ I, you, etc/ sb for one [IDM ] (အခြားသူအပထား၍) …တစ်ဦးအနေဖြင့်။ I for one have no doubt that he's lying. ❍ Lots of people would like to come— your mother for one.
❏ (all) in one [IDM ] တစ်ပေါင်းတည်းဖြစ်သော။ He's the club President, Treasurer and Secretary (all) in one. ❍ an all-in-one shampoo and conditioner.
❏ a one [IDM ] (infml esp Brit ) တကယ့် (ကောင်၊ လူ၊ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်) ပဲ။ He is a one, your son. Never out of trouble!
❏ one- (in compounds) တစ်…။ a one- act play ❍ a one- piece swimsuit.
❏ the one about sb/ sth [IDM ] …အကြောင်း ပြက်လုံး။ Do you know/ Have you heard the one about the bald policeman?
❏ one after another/ the other [IDM ] တစ်ယောက်ပြီး တစ်ယောက်။ တစ်ခုပြီးတစ်ခု။ The bills keep coming, one after another.
❏ one and all [IDM ] (dated infml ) အားလုံး(ကို)။ A Happy New Year to one and all!
❏ one and only [IDM ] တစ်ဦးတည်းသော။ တစ်ခုတည်းသော။ Here he is—the one and only Michael Jackson!
❏ one and the same [IDM ] တစ်ဦးတည်းပင်။ တစ်ခုတည်းပင်။ I've only just discovered that my two favourite authors are one and the same (person).
❏ one another pron တစ်ဦးနှင့်တစ်ဦး။ တစ်ဦးကိုတစ်ဦး။ အချင်းချင်း။ listening to one another's records ❍ We help one another when we can.
❏ one- armed bandit n (Brit ) = FRUIT MACHINE
❏ one by one [IDM ] (အစဉ်အတိုင်း) တစ်ယောက်ပြီး တစ်ယောက်၊ တစ်ခုပြီးတစ်ခု။ go through the items on a list one by one.
❏ (be) one for (doing) sth [IDM ] ကျွမ်းကျင်သူ။ ဝါသနာ ပါသူ။ She's a great one for (solving) puzzles.
❏ one- horse race n [sing] တစ်ဦးတည်း၊ တစ်သင်းတည်း က အပြတ်အသတ် အနိုင်ကြဲမည့်ပွဲ။
❏ one-liner n (infml ) တိုတိုတုတ်တုတ်ပြက်လုံး။ deliver some good one- liners.
❏ one- man adj (အကူမလို) တစ်ဦးတည်းကိုင်နိုင်သော။ the introduction of one- man buses ❍ union resistance to one- man operation of machines.
❏ one- man band n တူရိယာမျိုးစုံဖြင့် တစ်ကိုယ်တော် ဖျော်ဖြေတီးမှုတ်သူ။ (fig ) I run the business as a one-man band. ဒီလုပ်ငန်းကို ကျွန်တော်တစ်ဦးတည်းပင် စီမံအုပ်ချုပ် ပါတယ်။
❏ one-man show n တစ်ကိုယ်တော် ပြသဖျော်ဖြေပွဲ။
❏ oneness n [U] တစ်သားတည်းဖြစ်ခြင်း။ a sense of oneness with nature.
❏ one- night stand n (infml ) (ခရီးသွားဟန်လွှဲ) တစ်ညတာ တဏှာချစ်။ I was hoping for a lasting affair, not just a one- night stand.
❏ one- off adj တစ်ကြိမ်တည်းဖြင့် လုံလောက်သော။ a one- off payment.
n [sing] တစ်ကြိမ်တည်းနှင့် ဇာတ်သိမ်းသွားသောအရာ။ Her novel was just a one- off.
❏ one or two [IDM ] တစ်ယောက်စ နှစ်ယောက်စ။ တစ်ခုစ နှစ်ခုစ။ One or two people didn't come.
❏ one- parent family ( also single-parent family, lone parent family) n အမိ (သို့) အဘသာ ရှိသော မိသားစု။
❏ one- sided adj
၁။ တစ်ဖက်သတ်။ တစ်ဖက်စောင်းနင်း။ a one- sided argument ❍ The press was accused of being very one-sided.
၂။ တစ်ဖက်သတ်။ တစ်ဘီးလိမ့်။ တစ်ဖက် စောင်းနင်း။ It was a very one- sided game—we won easily. ❍ Their relationship is very one- sided.
❏ one- time adj ယခင်က။ … ဟောင်း။ his one- time business partner.
❏ one-to-one adj (အစုအဖွဲ့နှစ်ခုမှ) တစ်ယောက် တစ်ယောက် ချင်း။ a one-to-one relationship ❍ teaching on a one- to- one basis (ie with one teacher for each student).
❏ one- track mind n ဒါဆိုဒါပဲ တမ်းတမ်းစွဲစိတ်။ He's got a one-track mind—all he ever thinks about is sex!
❏ one up (on/ over sb) [IDM ] တစ်ပန်းသာသည်။ Your teaching experience puts you one up on the other candidates.
❏ one- upmanship n [U](infml ) ဘိန်းစားချင်း အတူတူ ပြောင်းတစ်လုံး ပိုရှူခြင်း။ ကျောလိုက်ခြင်း။
❏ one- way adj
၁။ တစ်လမ်းမောင်း။ တစ်လမ်းသွား။ one- way traffic ❍ a one-way street/ system.
၂။ အသွားခရီး အတွက်သာ ဖြစ်သော။ a one-way ticket. Compare SINGLE n ၁
၃။ တစ်ဖက်ကြည့် (မှန်)။ တစ်ဖက်မြင် (မှန်)။
- I’ve only got one hour free.
- They have one daughter and five sons.
- Over one hundred people were killed in the disaster.
- It was a one-storey building with big windows.
- I bought three T-shirts – do you want one?
- One passenger said she had been waiting for 13 hours.
- I heard of one case where a 12-year-old boy had been sent to prison.
- [one of] : Ours was one of the top four boats in the competition.
- One of the buildings was badly damaged in the fire.
- I met one of her brothers when he was here on business.
- [just the one] : ‘How many books did she borrow?’ ‘Just the one.’
- It was a problem, but not a major one.
- I’m only using this radio until I can buy a better one.
- Your experiences are ones that are shared by countless other parents.
- [the one/ones] : I’m going to keep those boxes. The ones I want to get rid of are in the garage.
- [this one/that one/these ones/those ones] : I’d never seen a game like that one.
- You want me to say how much freedom students should have? That’s a tricky one.
- [the one about] : Did you hear the one about the American who goes into a bar in Paris?
- [the one/ones] : David and I are the only ones left who are not married.
- They were all dealing drugs, but Bob was the one who got caught.
- Who is the one with the beard?
- [the young/clever/lucky etc ones] : The clever ones always come out on top.
- I speak as one who has seen much suffering.
- Why, one may ask, would someone want to burn down their own house?
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