At will

Definition

will /wÇl/ modal v ( short form 'll /l/ ; neg will not , short form won't /wǝƱnt/ ; pt would /wǝd , strong form wƱd/ , short form 'd /d/ ; neg would not , short form wouldn't /'wƱdnt/ ) ၁။ (က) (အနာဂတ္ျပစကား)။ မည္။ လိမ့္မည္။ အံ့။ လတၱံ႕။ မယ္။ Next year will be our tenth wedding anniversary. ❍ He'll start school this year, won't he? ❍ You'll be in time if you hurry. ❍ How long will you be staying in Paris? ❍ Fred said he'd be leaving soon. ❍ By next year all the money will have been spent. ❍ SHALL (ခ) (ပစၥဳပၸန္၌ ျဖစ္ေနႏိုင္သည့္ သေဘာျပစကား)။ … မွာပါ။ That'll be the doctor now! ❍ They'll be home by this time. ❍ You'll have had dinner already, I suppose. ၂။ (က) (ပန္ၾကားျခင္းအနက္ျပစကား)။ မလား။ ႏိုင္မလား။ မည္လား။ Will you send this letter for me, please? ❍ You'll water the plants while I'm away, won't you? ❍ I asked him if he wouldn't mind calling later. (ခ) (အမိန္႔ေပး ေစခိုင္းျပစကား)။ … စမ္း။ You'll do it this minute! ❍ Will you be quiet! ၃။ (ဆႏၵၫႊန္စကား)။ …မယ္။ …မွာ။ …ပါတယ္။ I'll check this letter for you, if you want. ❍ We won't lend you any more money. ❍ He wouldn't ride on my motor bike — he was too frightened. ❍ We said we would keep them. ❍ I will admit that it wasn't a very sensible thing to do. ၄။ (က) (ျဖစ္ၿမဲ သေဘာျပ စကား)။ မည္။ မွာ။ If it's made of wood it will float. ❍ Engines won't run without lubricants. (ခ) (ေသခ်ာေၾကာင္းျပစကား)။ တယ္။ မွာ။ This jar will hold a kilo. ဒီဘူးက တစ္ကီလို ဆံ့တယ္။ ❍ The door won't open! တံခါးဖြင့္လို႔ မရဘူး။ (တံခါးပြင့္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ) ၅။ (အက်င့္၊ အေလ့ကိုျပေသာ စကား)။ ေနေပလိမ့္ မည္။ မွာပါ။ She'll listen to music, alone in her room, for hours. ❍ He would spend hours in the bathroom or on the telephone. ၆။ (မေက်မနပ္၊ မႏွစ္သက္သည့္ သေဘာကိုျပေသာ စကား)။ …ဦးမွာပဲ။ He will comb his hair at the table, even though he knows I don't like it. ❍ He would keep telling those dreadful stories. v ၁။ (only used in the simple present tense; 3rd pers sing will ) ( dated or fml ) (စိတ္ဆႏၵရိွသလို ခြင့္ျပဳေၾကာင္းျပ စကား)။ Call it what you will, it's still a problem. ဘာေျပာေျပာ အဲဒါကေတာ့ျပႆနာပဲ။ ❍ You're free to travel where you will in the country. ျပည္တြင္းမွာ ဘယ္သြားသြား လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္ သြားႏိုင္တယ္။ ၂။ ဆႏၵျပဳသည္။ ဆုေတာင္း သည္။ As a child he thought that his grandmother's death had happened because he had willed it. ❍ The crowd were cheering her, willing her to win/ willing her on. ❍ Closing his eyes, he willed himself to relax. ❍ Gripping the steering wheel tightly she tried to will the van up the hill. ၃။ ( fml ) အလိုရိွသည္။ ဆႏၵရိွသည္။ This happened because God willed it. ၄။ ~ sth (to sb) ( fml ) ေသတမ္းစာျဖင့္ လႊဲသည္။ He willed most of his money to charity. ❍ Father willed me the house and my sister his stocks and shares. n ၁။ [U, sing] စိတ္စြမ္းအား။ စိတၱာဓိပတိ။ See also FREE WILL ၂။ (က) [U, sing] (also will-power [U]) ဆႏၵ စြမ္းအား။ ဆႏၵာဓိပတိ။ have a strong/ weak will ❍ He has no will of his own. ❍ She shows great strength of will. (ခ) [U,C] ျပင္းျပေသာ ဆႏၵ၊ စိတ္ဓာတ္။ Despite her terrible injuries, she hasn't lost the will to live. ❍ There was a clash of wills among committee members. ၃။ [U] စိတ္သေဘာ။ စိတ္ႏွလံုး။ bear sb no ill will. See also GOODWILL ၄။ [U] အလို (အတိုင္း)။ try to do God's will ❍ It is the will of Allah. ၅။ [C] ေသတမ္းစာ။ one's last will and testament ❍ Have you made a /your will? ❏ against one's will [ IDM ] သေဘာမတူဘဲ။ ဆႏၵမပါဘဲ။ I was forced to sign the agreement against my will. ❏ at will [ IDM ] သေဘာရိွ။ come and go at will ❍ The animals are allowed to wander at will in the park. ❏ if you will [ IDM ] ( fml ) ဒီလို ေခၚခ်င္သပ ဆိုရင္။ He became her senior adviser — her deputy, if you will. ❏ where there's a will there's a way [ IDM ] ( saying ) ဆႏၵရိွက နည္းလမ္းရ။ ❏ -willed (forming compound adjs ) … သည့္ စိတ္ဆႏၵ။ strong-willed ❍ weak-willed. ❏ will-power n [U] = WILL n ၂(က) ❏ with a will [ IDM ] စိတ္ပါလက္ပါ။ လိုလားထက္သန္စြာ။ They set to work with a will.

Examples

1. Let’s finish the job now – it won’t take long.
2. Who do you think will win on Saturday?
3. There will be a short ceremony at the war memorial.
4. The President will attend a lunch hosted by the Queen.
5. Most of you will know about the problems we’ve been having.
6. There’s the doorbell. That’ll be Janet.
7. If you won’t tell him the truth
8. I will.
9. Who’ll help me in the kitchen?
10. [will be glad/pleased/happy to do something] : I’ll be glad to answer any questions that you may have.
11. Will you please listen to what I’m saying!
12. Will someone kindly tell me what is going on around here?
13. Will you have a cup of tea?
14. Won’t you stay for lunch?
15. Will these gloves fit you?
16. £30 will buy enough food for a family for a week.
17. All staff will attend regular training courses.
18. You will not leave this house without my permission.
19. Natural rubber will stretch easily when pulled.
20. If you will keep interrupting me
21. how can I answer your question?
22. They’ll happily spend the whole day playing computer games.