Answer

Definition

answer /'ɑ:nsǝ(r); US 'æn-/ n ~ (to sb/sth) ၁။ (က) ျပန္ၾကား ခ်က္။ တံု႔ျပန္မႈ။ ထူးသံ။ တံု႔ျပန္ခ်က္။ The answer he gave was quite surprising. ❍ Have you had an answer to your letter? ❍ The doctor came in answer to my phone call. ❍ I rang the bell but there was no answer. ❍ She had no answer to the accusations. (ခ) အေျဖ။ Write your answers on the sheet provided. ❍ What’s the right answer to question 12? ❍ The answers are at the back of the book. ၂။ နည္းလမ္း။ အေျဖ။ This could be the answer to all our difficulties. ❍ The only answer was to look for a job elsewhere. ၃။ စင္ၿပိဳင္။ The Monkees were supposed to be America's answer to the Beatles. v ၁။ (က) ေျဖသည္။ ျပန္ၾကားသည္။ ထူးသည္။ တံု႔ျပန္သည္။ Think carefully before you answer. ❍ answer a question/a letter/an advertisement ❍ She didn’t answer me. ❍ answer the door ❍ answer the telephone ❍ Nobody answered my call for help. ❍ How do you answer the charge? ❍ She answered that she preferred to eat alone. ❍ Can you answer me this? ❍ ‘Yes’, she answered softly. (ခ) (လိုတ) ရသည္။ (ဆုေတာင္း)ျပည့္သည္။ My prayers have been answered (ie I have got what I wanted). ၂။ (လိုအပ္ခ်က္ႏွင့္) ကိုက္ညီသည္။ answer sb's purpose/needs/requirements. ❏ answerable /'ɑ:nsǝrǝbl; US 'æn-/ adj ၁။ ~ to sb (for sth) တာဝန္ရိွ [ေသာ]။ I am answerable to the company for the use of this equipment. ၂။ ျပန္ေျဖႏိုင္ေသာ။ ❏ answer back [ PHRV ] ျပန္လည္ေခ်ပသည္။ following criticisms of his latest film, the director answered back in a scathing article about critics. ❏ answer (sb) back [ PHRV ] ျပန္ပက္သည္။ ႏႈတ္လွံ ထိုးသည္။ ခံေျပာသည္။ Don't answer back! ❍ He’s a rude little boy, always answering his mother back. ❏ answer (to) the description (of sb/sth) [ IDM ] ကိုက္ညီသည္။ A man answering (to) this description has been seen in the Brighton area. ❏ answer for sb/sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ တာဝန္ယူသည္။ ေခါင္း ခံရသည္။ You will have to answer for your crimes one day. ❍ He has a lot to answer for (ie He is responsible for many bad things). ❍ I'll answer for the consequences of this decision. ၂။ ကိုယ္စားေျပာဆိုသည္။ I agree, but I can't answer for my colleagues. ၃။ တစ္ဦး တစ္ေယာက္အတြက္ တာဝန္ခံသည္။ Knowing her well I can certainly answer for her honesty. ❏ answer to sb (for sth) [ PHRV ] တစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္ကို တာဝန္ခံသည္။ Who do you answer to in your new job? ❍ You will answer to me for any damage to the car. ❏ answer to the name of sth [ IDM ] ( infml or joc ) (အထူးသျဖင့္ အိမ္ေမြးတိရစၧာန္ကို) …ဟု အမည္ ေပးထားသည္။ My dog answers to the name of Spot. ❏ have/know all the answers [ IDM ] ( infml often derog ) သူမသိတာမရိွ။ He thinks he knows all the answers.

Examples

1. It was a tough question
2. but Ginny had her answer ready.
3. [answer to] : The answer to your question is yes.
4. [give someone an answer] : I’ll give you a definite answer tomorrow.
5. [in answer to] : In answer to your question
6. no he is not married.
7. I wrote to her in May but I never got an answer.
8. I tried calling her again
9. but there was still no answer.
10. [get no answer] : Ring the doorbell and if you get no answer
11. knock on the window.
12. Write your answers in the space provided.
13. I’m sorry
14. but ‘Paris’ is the wrong answer.
15. [get the answer right/wrong] : You got all the answers right.
16. All answers are printed in the back of the book.
17. [answer to] : Do you know the answer to question 10?
18. If you can’t afford a decorator
19. the obvious answer is to do it yourself.
20. [answer to] : There are no easy answers to this crisis.