year
/jəː/
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- Final r is pronounced in US English
US voice -> year
year /jÇǝ(r); Brit also jɜ:(r)/ n
၁။ [C] (တစ်)နှစ်။
၂။ (also calendar year ) [C] (ပြက္ခဒိန်) နှစ်။ in the year 1865 ❍ I shall be 18 this year. ❍ a good year for strawberries (ie a year in which there are many of them and they are cheap). See also LEAP YEAR, NEW YEAR
၃။ [C] တစ်နှစ်တာ ကာလ။ It's just a year (today) since I arrived here. ❍ I arrived three years ago (today). ❍ They're getting married in a year's time. ❍ a five-year forecast. See also LIGHT-YEAR
၄။ [C] လုပ်ငန်း (သို့) ဆောင်ရွက်မှုနှင့် ပတ်သက်သောနှစ်။ …နှစ်။ (ဥပမာ- စာသင်နှစ်၊ ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနှစ်၊ ပထမနှစ်သင်တန်း)။ the academic/school year ❍ first year students ❍ the tax year. See also FINANCIAL YEAR
၅။ [C usu pl ] အသက်။ be twenty years old/of age ❍ a seventy-year-old man ❍ She looks young for (a woman of) her years (ie looks younger than she is ). ❍ He died in his sixtieth year (ie at the age of 59).
၆။ years [ pl](infml ) နှစ်ပေါင်းများစွာ။ နှစ်နှင့်ချီ၍။ I've worked for this firm for years (and years). ❍ It's years since we last met.
❏ all (the) year round [IDM ] တစ်နှစ်ပတ်လုံး။ He swims in the sea all year round.
❏ man, woman, car,etc of the year [IDM ] တစ်နှစ် အတွက် အထူးခြားဆုံး။ TV personality of the year.
❏ not/never in a hundred, etc years [IDM ] လုံးဝ။ လားလားမျှ။ I'd never have thought of that in a million years.
❏ put years on sb [IDM ] အိုစာသည်။ The illness put years on him.
❏ take years off sb [IDM ] အရွယ်တင်သည်။ Giving up smoking has taken years off her.
❏ year after year [IDM ] တစ်နှစ်ပြီးတစ်နှစ်။ Year after year they went to Blackpool in August.
❏ year by year [IDM ]တစ်နှစ်ထက်တစ်နှစ်။ Year by year their affection for each other grew stronger.
❏ the year dot (Brit); (US) the year one [IDM ] (infml ) ပဝေသဏီကတည်းက။ I've been going there every summer since the year dot.
❏ year in, year out [IDM] နှစ်စဉ်နှစ်တိုင်း။
❏ year-long adj တစ်နှစ်တာမျှ။ နှစ်လုံးပေါက်။ a year-long lecture tour.
❏ yearly adj, adv နှစ်စဉ်။ နှစ်တိုင်း။ တစ်နှစ်တစ်ကြိမ်။ a yearly conference/ a conference held yearly.
❏ year of grace; year of our Lord(fml) [IDM] ခရစ် နှစ်။ in the year of our Lord 1217 (ie 1217 AD).
❏ year-on-year adj တစ်နှစ်ထက်တစ်နှစ်။ a small year-on-year increase in house prices.
❏ year-round adj တစ်နှစ်ပတ်လုံး။ an island with year-round sunshine ❍ a year-round sport.
- He lived in Paris for a few years.
- I started my job two years ago.
- [years old] : Their house is only five years old.
- We’re hoping to have the house sold by the end of the year.
- They’re showing two films from the year 1977.
- [last/next year] : Profits are lower than last year.
- The first weeks of the new school year
- [the financial/fiscal/tax year] : A budget for the fiscal year 2002
- It wasn’t until years later that I realized how foolish I’d been.
- [for years] : He hasn’t been back to the country for years.
- Conditions were very different in the postwar years (=the period after the war).
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