think again

think /θÇŋk / v (pt,pp thought /θↄ:t/)

၁။ ~ (about sth ) စဉ်းစားသည်။ ဆင်ခြင်သည်။ တွေးသည်။ ထင်သည်။ Are animals able to think? ❍ I'm sorry, I didn't think (ie said when one has offended sb accidentally). ❍ Let me think a moment (ie Give me time before I answer). ❍ Philosophers have thought about this problem for centuries. See also THINK ABOUT STH/SB, THINK ABOUT (DOING) STH
၂။ (not used in the continuous tenses) ထင်သည်။ သဘောရသည်။ ယုံကြည်သည်။ ယူဆ သည်။ ‘Do you think (that) it's going to rain?’ ‘Yes, I think so. ’ ❍ I think this is their house but I'm not sure. ❍ I thought I heard a scream. ❍ Am I right in thinking that you once lived here? ❍ Don't think you'll get away with this! ❍ Who do you think you are (ie Why are you behaving in this proud, superior way)? ❍ I think he ought to resign. ❍ He ought to resign, I think. ❍ We'll need about 20 chairs, I should think. ❍ Do you think it likely/ that it is likely? ❍ a species long thought to be extinct ❍ He's thought to be one of the richest men in Europe. ❍ The galaxy is much larger than was previously thought. ❍ I don't care what anyone thinks, I'm going to marry her.
၃။ စိတ်ကူးသည်။ စဉ်းစားသည်။ I think I'll go for a swim. ❍ I'm thinking in terms of about 200 guests. ❍ I didn't think (ie It did not occur to me) to tell her.
၄။ (used esp in the continuous tenses) တွေးသည်။ စဉ်းစားသည်။ You're very quiet. What are you thinking? ❍ I was just thinking (to myself) what a long way it is. ❍ Here goes, she thought.
၅။ (no passive) (က) စိတ်ကူးသည်။ စဉ်းစား သည်။ ထင်သည်။ We couldn't think where you'd gone. ❍ Think how nice it would be to see them again. ❍ I can't think that he would be so stupid.
(ခ) တွေးသည်။ ထင်သည်။ မျှော်လင့်သည်။ Who'd have thought it (eg of a surprising event)? ❍ I never thought (that) I'd see her again. ❍ (fml ) Who would have thought to find you here?
၆။ (infml ) (no passive) စဉ်းစားသည်။ စိတ်ကူးသည်။ တွေးခေါ်သည်။ Let's think positive. ❍ You need to think big (ie be ambitious). ❍ If you want to make money you've got to think money.
n [sing] (infml ) အကြံ။ အတွေး။ စိတ်ကူး။ I'll have a think and let you know tomorrow.
❏ come to think of it [IDM ] အခုမှပြန်သတိရမိတယ်။ Come to think of it, he did mention seeing you.
❏ have (got) another think coming [IDM ] စိတ်ကူး လွဲနေပြီ။ If you think I'm going to pay all your bills you've got another think coming.
❏ I thought as much [IDM ] ထင်သားပဲ။ ‘ He said he'd forgotten. ’ ‘I thought as much’.
❏ if/ when you think about it [IDM ] ပြန်တွေးမိတော့။ When you think about it, her behaviour was a little unusual.
❏ think about sth/sb [PHRV ]
၁။ သတိရမိသည်။ အောက်မေ့သည်။ Do you ever think about your childhood? ❍ I can't stop thinking about her.
၂။ စဉ်းစားသည်။ Don't you ever think about other people? ❍ All he ever thinks about is money.
❏ think about (doing) sth [PHRV ] စဉ်းစားသည်။ I'll think about it and let you know tomorrow. ❍ She's thinking about changing her job. ❍ She's thinking seriously about her future.
❏ think again [IDM ] ပြန်စဉ်းစားဦး။ မထင်လေနဲ့။ Perhaps we need to think again about privatization. ❍ If you think I'm going to lend you my car you can think again!
❏ think ahead (to sth) [PHRV ] ကြိုတွေးသည်။ Thinking ahead to our next meeting…
❏ think aloud [IDM ] စိတ်ထဲရှိသလို၊ ပေါ်သလို ပြောသည်။
❐ think back (to sth) [PHRV ] ပြန်သတိရသည်။ အောက်မေ့ သည်။ I keep thinking back to the day I arrived here.
❏ think better of it/ of doing sth [IDM ] ပြန်လည်စဉ်းစား ပြီးနောက် မလုပ်ရန်ဆုံးဖြတ်သည်။ Rosie was about to protest but thought better of it.
❏ think (the) better of sb [IDM ] အထင်ကြီးမိသည်။ She has behaved appallingly—I must say I thought better of her.
❏ think for oneself [PHRV ] ကိုယ့်ဦးနှောက်နှင့်ကိုယ် တွေးတတ်သည်။
❏ think nothing of it [IDM ] (ကျေးဇူးတင်စကား၊ ခွင့်လွှတ်ရန် တောင်းပန်စကား ပြောသူကို ပြန်ပြောသည့်အခါ သုံးသော စကား)။ အို ရပါတယ်။ ဒါကို ခေါင်းထဲထည့်မနေပါနဲ့။ ကိစ္စမရှိပါဘူး။ အားနာဖို့မလိုပါဘူး။
❏ think nothing of (doing) sth [IDM ] ပင်ပန်းခက်ခဲလှ သည်ဟု ထည့်တွက်ခြင်းမရှိ။ She thinks nothing of walking thirty miles a day.
❏ think of sth/ sb [PHRV ]
၁။ တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက်ကိုရည်ရွယ်သည်။ When I made those remarks, I wasn't thinking of anyone in particular.
၂။ ထည့်စဉ်းစားသည်။ There are so many things to think of when buying a house. ❍ You can't expect me to think of everything!
၃။ စဉ်းစားသည်။ Can anybody think of a way to raise money? ❍ ‘What shall we do now?’ ‘I'll think of something. ’ ❍ Have you thought of a name for the baby yet?
၄။ (esp after can ) မှတ်မိသည်။ I can think of at least three occasions when he arrived late. ❍ I can't think of his name at the moment.
၅။ ယူဆသည်။ သဘောထားသည်။ I think of this place as my home. ❍ She is thought of as a possible future director.
❏ think of (doing) sth [PHRV ]
၁။ စဉ်းစားနေသည်။ They're thinking of moving to America. ❍ I did think of resigning, but I decided against it.
၂။ မှန်းကြည့်သည်။ စိတ်ကူးထဲထည့်သည်။ Just think of the expense! ❍ I couldn't think of letting you take the blame (ie I would not allow that to happen). ❍ She would never think of marrying him.
❏ think sth out [PHRV ] ချင့်ချိန်သည်။ ချိန်ဆသည်။ ဆင်ခြင်သည်။ Think out your answer before you start writing. ❍ It's a very well thought out scheme.
❏ think sth over [PHRV ] အချိန်ယူစဉ်းစားသည်။ Please think over what I've said. ❍ I'd like more time to think things over.
❏ think straight [IDM ] ဟန်ကျပန်ကျတွေးနိုင်သည်။ I'm so tired I can hardly think straight.
❏ think-tank n နိုင်ငံရေး၊ လူမှုရေး၊ စီးပွားရေး အကြံပေးအဖွဲ့။
❏ think sth through [PHRV ] ခြေသိမ်းခေါင်းပိုက်စဉ်းစား ဆင်ခြင်သည်။
❏ think twice about (doing) sth [IDM ] စဉ်းစဉ်းစားစား လည်း လုပ်ပါဦး။ You should think twice about employing someone you've never met.
❏ think sth up [PHRV ](infml ) အကြံထုတ်သည်။ think up novel ways of raising money ❍ Can't you think up a better excuse than that?
❏ think the world, highly, a lot, not much, poorly, little, etc of sb/ sth [IDM ] (not used in the continuous tenses) အထင်ကြီးသည်၊ အထင်မကြီး၊ အထင်သေးသည် စသည်။ He thinks the world of his daughter. ❍ His work is highly thought of by the critics. ❍ What do you think of my new dress? ငါ့ဂါဝန်အသစ် ဟန်ရဲ့လား။