A treat

Definition

treat /tri:t/ v ၁။ ~ sb (as/ like sth) ဆက္ဆံသည္။ ျပဳမူသည္။ I hate people who treat animals badly. ❍ You should treat people with more consideration. ❍ People sometimes treat new technology with suspicion. ❍ He treats me as (if I were) a complete idiot. ၂။ ~ sth as sth သေဘာထားသည္။ မွတ္ယူသည္။ I decided to treat his remark as a joke (eg instead of being offended by it). ၃။ သံုးသပ္ေဝဖန္သည္။ တင္ျပေဆြးေႏြးသည္။ The question is treated at greater length in the next chapter. ၄။ ~ sb/ sth;~ sb (for sth) ကုသသည္။ ျပဳစုသည္။ a new drug for treating rheumatism ❍ Last year the hospital treated 40 cases of malaria. ❍ She was treated for sunstroke. ၅။ ~ sth (with sth) (ေဆးျဖင့္) ျပဳျပင္သည္၊ စီရင္သည္။ wood treated with creosote ❍ treat crops with insecticide. ၆။ ~ sb/ oneself (to sth) ျပဳစုသည္။ ဒကာခံသည္။ အကုန္အက် ခံသည္။ ဧည့္ခံသည္။ She treated each of the children to an ice-cream. ❍ I decided to treat myself to a taxi (eg instead of walking). ❍ We were treated to an impromptu dance display by local schoolchildren. n ၁။ စားခ်င့္စဖြယ္၊ ေပ်ာ္ခ်င့္စဖြယ္၊ ၾကည္ႏူးစဖြယ္ စေသာအရာ။ Smoked salmon—what a treat! ❍ I'm taking the children to the pantomime as a treat. ❍ The concert is a real treat for lovers of light opera. ၂။ ဒကာခံျခင္း။ အကုန္အက် ခံျခင္း။ This is my treat (ie I will pay). ❏ a treat [ IDM ]( Brit infml ) ေတာ္ေတာ့္ကို ေကာင္းေသာ။ အေတာ္ဟုတ္ေသာ။ The new knife sharpener works a treat. ❍ He looked a treat in his uniform. ❏ treatable adj ကုသေပ်ာက္ကင္းႏိုင္ေသာ။ a treatable condition/ infection. ❏ treat sb like dirt/ a dog [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေက်းလိုကြၽန္လိုသေဘာထားဆက္ဆံသည္။ မတူမတန္ သေဘာထားသည္။ They treat their workers like dirt.

Examples

1. She felt she had been unfairly treated
2. and complained to her boss.
3. You should treat others politely.
4. [treat someone with respect/kindness/contempt] : We all treated my grandfather with the greatest respect.
5. [treat someone like/as something] : I wish you would stop treating me like a child!
6. [treat someone like royalty] : Guests of the family are treated like royalty.
7. The council said that it would treat her case sympathetically.
8. [treat something as something] : These payments will be treated as income.
9. [treat something with caution/scepticism/suspicion] : You should treat this new evidence with caution.
10. Is the subject of neglected women artists treated in the course?
11. Vitamin deficiency can be properly diagnosed and treated by a doctor.
12. [treat someone for something] : She was treated for smoke inhalation.
13. [treat someone/something with something] : Patients are treated with a combination of medication and exercise.
14. Fabrics are treated to make them water-resistant.
15. [treat something with something] : The wood is treated with chemicals to preserve it.
16. [treat yourself to something] : She treated herself to a nice hot bubble bath.
17. [treat someone to something] : Bob treated us all to dinner at an expensive restaurant.