teach
/tiːtʃ/
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US voice -> teach
(v) သင်ပေး
teach /ti:tʃ/ v (pt, pp taught /tↄ:t/)
၁။ (က) သင်ပေးသည်။ She teaches us Scottish dancing. ❍ He taught me (how) to drive.
(ခ) ~ sth (to sb/sth) သင်ပေးသည်။ သင်ပြသည်။ teach French/history/judo ❍ She teaches advanced students English/teaches English to advanced students.
(ဂ) ဆရာအလုပ်ဖြင့် အသက်မွေးသည်။ She teaches at our local school. ❍ He taught mathematics/woodwork for many years.
၂။ သွန်သင်သည်။ ပြသသည်။ Christ taught forgiveness (ie that we should forgive people who harm us, etc) ❍ He taught that the earth revolves around the sun. ❍ My parents taught me never to tell lies.
၃။ (infml ) (no passive) သင်ခန်းစာပေးသည်။ So you lost all your money? That'll teach you (to gamble). ❍ It taught him a lesson he never forgot. (used as a threat) I'll teach you to call (ie punish you for calling) me a liar!
❏ teachable adj
၁။ သင်ပြနိုင်သော၊ သင်ပေးနိုင်သော (ဘာသာရပ်)။
၂။ သင်ယူနိုင်သော၊ သင်ပေး၍ရသော(သူ)။
❏ teacher n ကျောင်းဆရာ၊ ဆရာမ။ my English teacher. Compare HEAD n ၁၄
❏ teaching n
၁။ [U] စာသင်ပြခြင်း။ ကျောင်းဆရာအလုပ်။ She wants to go into teaching as a career.
၂။ [U, C often pl ] အဆုံးအမ။ ဒေသနာတော်။ the teaching(s) of the Church.
❏ teach one's grandmother to suck eggs [IDM ] (infml )ဘုန်းကြီးစာချ၊ မိကျောင်းမင်းရေခင်းပြ။
❏ (you can't) teach an old dog new tricks [IDM ] (saying ) ခွေးအိုမှလက်ပေးသင်လို့မရ။
❏ teach school [IDM ] (US ) ကျောင်းဆရာလုပ်သည်။
- How long have you been teaching here?
- [teach science/maths/history etc] : I teach English at the local comprehensive.
- [teach children/teenagers/adults etc] : She teaches children with learning difficulties.
- [teach something to someone/teach someone something] : John teaches English to adult learners.
- [teach someone something] : His mother had taught him some words in Spanish.
- [teach someone (how) to do something] : My uncle is going to teach me to drive this summer.
- [teach someone something] : The experience taught her the importance of having good friends.
- [teach someone to do something] : These children have to be taught to share with others.
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