world
/wəːld/
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(n) ကမ္ဘာ
၁။ the world [sing] ကမ္ဘာ။ ကမ္ဘာမြေ။ a journey round the world ❍ travel (all over) the world ❍ the rivers and oceans of the world ❍ The whole world would be affected by a nuclear war. ❍ Which is the largest city in the world? ❍ English is a world language (ie is used everywhere in the world).
၂။ the world [sing] လောက။ the creation of the world.
၃။ [sing] သီးခြားကမ္ဘာ။ the western world ❍ the English- speaking world (ie those parts where English is spoken as the first language) ❍ the Roman world (ie the part of the earth that the Romans knew). See also THE NEW WORLD, THE OLD WORLD, THE THIRD WORLD
၄။ [C] ကမ္ဘာကဲ့သို့သော (အခြား)ဂြိုဟ်။ There may be other worlds out there.
၅။ [sing] ဘဝ။ this world and the next (ie life on earth and existence after death) ❍ the world to come (ie life after death) ❍ come into the world (ie be born) ❍ It's a sad world where there is such terrible suffering.
၆။ the world [sing] (က) လူ့လောက။ လူ့အကြောင်း။ He showed no interest in the world around him. ❍ She's gone off to see the world for a year before she starts university ❍ He's too young to understand the ways of the world.
(ခ) လောကီ။ ကာမဂုဏ်။ the temptations of the world ❍ She decided to renounce the world and enter a convent.
၇။ the world [sing]
(က) တစ်လောကလုံး။ The whole world seemed to be at the party. ❍ She felt that the (whole) world was against her. ❍ There's no need to tell the whole world about it!
(ခ) လူတကာ။ အများသူငါ။ I don't care what the world thinks.
၈။ [C] (often in compounds) … လောက။ …နယ်။ …ကမ္ဘာ။ the animal/ insect world ❍ the world of art/ politics/ sport ❍ the racing/ scientific/ theatre world ❍ The medical world is divided on this issue.
❏ be all the world to sb [IDM ] အသက်ပဲ။ အသက်ဘူးပဲ။
❏ be worlds apart [IDM ] ပြဒါးတစ်လမ်း သံတစ်လမ်း။ Politically, they're worlds apart.
❏ come up/ go down/ in the world [IDM ] လူတစ်လုံး သူတစ်လုံးဖြစ်သည်။ ကောင်းစားသည်/ လူရာမဝင်ဖြစ်သည်။ ဘဝပျက်သည်။ They've come up in the world since I last met them.
❏ for all the world as if…/ like sb/ sth [IDM ] …သလိုပဲ။ She behaved for all the world as if nothing unusual had happened! သူ့အမူအရာက ဘာမျှမဖြစ်ခဲ့သလိုဘဲ။ ❍ He looked for all the world like a naughty schoolboy caught stealing apples. သူ့ကြည့်ရတာ ပန်းသီးခိုးတဲ့ကလေး လူမိသလိုပဲ။
❏ (not) for (all) the world [IDM ] ဘာကြီးပဲဖြစ်ဖြစ်။ I wouldn't sell that picture for all the world.
❏ (be/ live) in a world of one's own [IDM ] ဘာသိဘာသာ (နေသည်)။
❏ a man/ woman of the world [IDM ] အတွေ့အကြုံ ရင့်ကျက်သူ။
❏ out of this world [IDM ] (infml ) အံ့ချီး ကုန်နိုင်ဖွယ်။ The meal was out of this world.
❏ set the world on fire [IDM ] (infml ) လျှမ်းလျှမ်း တောက် အောင်မြင်သူ။
❏ what is the world coming to? [IDM ] (လူ့ စိတ်ဓာတ်၊ သဘောထား၊ အချိုးပြောင်းလဲမှုကို မကျေနပ်မိ၊ အံ့အားသင့်မိ၊ အလန့်တကြား ဖြစ်မိရာ၌ သုံးသောစကား)။ လောကကြီး ဘာဖြစ်နေပြီလဲ။ When I listen to the news these days, I sometimes wonder what the world is coming to.
❏ (all) the world and his wife [IDM ] (Brit infml ) တစ်လောကလုံး။ The world and his wife were in Brighton that day!
❏ world-beater n ပြိုင်စံရှား။ She has enough talent as a player to be a world-beater.
❏ world-class adj ကမ္ဘာ့အဆင့်မီ။ a world-class writer/ athlete ❍ world-class hotels/ wines.
❏ world-famous adj ကမ္ဘာကျော်။ a world-famous pop star ❍ His books are world-famous.
❏ the world is one's oyster [IDM ] ဘဝမှာ ထင်တိုင်း ပေါက်သည်။ With talent like that, the world is his oyster.
❏ worldly adj
၁။ လောက။ လောကီ။ one's worldly goods (ie one's possessions) ❍ worldly power/ success.
၂။ အတွေ့အကြုံ ကြွယ်ဝ၍ တည်ငြိမ်ရင့်ကျက်သော။ After ten years in London, she's much more worldly than she was. worldliness n [U]
❏ worldly-wise adj [U] အတွေ့အကြုံများ၍ လိမ္မာ ပါးနပ်သော။
❏ a/ the world of difference, good, etc [IDM ] (infml ) အင်မတန့်အင်မတန်၊ အလွန့်အလွန်ကွာသည်၊ ကောင်းသည် စသည်။ There's a world of difference between a packet of frozen peas and peas picked freshly from the garden. ❍ That trip did him the world of good.
❏ the (whole) world over [IDM ] ဘယ်မှာမဆို။ People are basically the same the world over.
❏ world power n ကမ္ဘာ့အင်အားကြီးနိုင်ငံ။
❏ world war n ကမ္ဘာစစ်။ the First/ Second World War.
❏ world-weary adj လောကကြီးကို စိတ်ကုန်နေသော။
- We observe changes in the world’s climate.
- Creatures from alien worlds
- We want to guarantee our children a safer world.
- [all over the world/throughout the world] : The same problems are faced by children throughout the world.
- [the whole world] : The terrorists pose a threat to the whole world.
- She’s won medals at three previous world championships.
- The world economy
- A world war
- It was a choice between the world and God.
- [go up in the world] : She’s gone up in the world, by marrying into money.
- [go/come down in the world] : If you’re used to driving the newer models, you may feel that you’ve come down in the world.
- It is the oldest institution in the English-speaking world.
- This disease is increasing dramatically in the western world (=the countries of western Europe and North America).
- This library was one of the wonders of the Ancient World.
- The entertainment world
- The world of work
- Children feel powerful in the world of imagination that they create.
- [bring a child into the world] : I wouldn’t want to bring a child into this cruel world.
- [come into the world] : Thousands of babies come into the world every day.
- [leave/depart this world] : There’s something I want to do before I depart this world.
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