Bear-hug

Definition

bear 1 /beǝ(r)/ n ၁။ ဝက္ဝံ။ a polar bear ❍ a grizzly bear. ၂။ ( finance ) က်ေဈးႏွင့္ျပန္ဝယ္ရန္ စေတာ့ရွယ္ယာမ်ားေရာင္းသူ။ Compare BULL 1 ၃ See also TEDDY BEAR ❏ bear-hug n ရင္ခ်င္းအပ္၍ အားရပါးရဖက္ျခင္း။ He gave me a friendly bear-hug. ❏ bearish /'bearÇʃ/ adj ( finance ) (ေဈး) က်ရိပ္ရိွေသာ။ a bearish view of investment prospects ❍ The equity market is becoming increasingly bearish. Compare BULLISH ❏ bear market n ထုတ္ေရာင္းသူမ်ား၍ ထိုးက်ေနေသာ ေဈးကြက္။ bear 2 /beǝ(r)/ v ( pt bore /bↄ:(r)/; pp borne /bↄ:n/) ၁။ ေဆာင္သည္။ ပါသည္။ ျပသည္။ The document bore his signature. ❍ The insignia bear the royal coat of arms. ❍ I saw a tombstone bearing the date 1602. ❍ He was badly wounded in the war and still bears the scars. ❍ She bears little resemblance to (ie is not much like) her mother. ❍ The title of the essay bore little relation to the contents (ie was not much connected with them). ၂။ ရိွသည္။ ပါရိွသည္။ a family that bore an ancient and honoured name ❍ A married woman usually bears her husband's surname. ၃။ ( dated or fml ) သယ္ေဆာင္သည္။ to bear a heavy load ❍ three kings bearing gifts ❍ The canoe was borne (along) by the current. ❍ CARRY ၄။ (က) အေလးခ်ိန္ကိုခံႏိုင္သည္။ The ice is too thin to bear your weight. (ခ) တာဝန္ယူသည္။ ေခါင္းခံသည္။ Do the bride's parents have to bear the cost of the wedding? ❍ You shouldn't have to bear the blame for other people's mistakes. ၅။ (က) (with can/could, in negative sentences and questions) သည္းခံသည္။ The pain was almost more than he could bear. ❍ She couldn't bear the thought of losing him. ❍ I can't bear having cats in the house. ❍ How can you bear to eat that stuff? ❍ He can't bear to be laughed at / bear being laughed at. (ခ) (in negative sentences) ခံႏိုင္သည္။ Modern paintings don't bear comparison with those of the old masters (ie because they are greatly inferior). ❍ The plan won't bear close inspection (ie It will be found not to be satisfactory when carefully examined). ❍ Her joke doesn't bear repeating (ie because it is not funny or may offend people). ❍ His sufferings don't bear thinking about (ie because they are or were so terrible). ၆။ ~ sth (against/towards sb) အေတးအမွတ္ထား သည္။ bear a grudge against sb/bear sb a grudge ❍ He bears no resentment towards them. ❍ She bore him no ill will. ၇။ ~ oneself well, etc ဟန္မပ်က္ေအာင္ထိန္းသည္။ He bears himself (ie stands, walks, etc) proudly; like a soldier. ❍ She bore herself with dignity throughout the funeral. ၈။ ( fml ) (ကေလး)ေမြးသည္။ bear a child ❍ She has borne him six sons. ၉။ သီးသည္။ ပြင့္သည္။ trees bearing pink blossom ❍ ( fig ) His efforts bore no result (ie were not successful). ၁၀။ ~ (to the) north, left, etc (ၫႊန္းရာဘက္သို႔) လိုက္သည္။ When you get to the fork in the road, bear (to the) right. ❏ bear arms [ IDM ] ( arch ) စစ္မႈထမ္းသည္။ ❏ bear the brunt of sth [ IDM ] စုၿပံဳခံရသည္။ က်ံဳးခံရသည္။ ကုန္း႐ုန္းခံရသည္။ They bore the full brunt of the attack. ❍ His secretary has to bear the brunt of his temper. ❏ bear down on sb/sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( esp Brit ) တည့္တည့္ ႀကီး ဝင္လာသည္။ ၂။ ( esp US ) အားကုန္ဖိသည္။ Bear down on it with all your strength so it doesn't move. ❏ bear fruit [ IDM ] [ဥ] အသီးအပြင့္ခံစားရသည္။ အက်ဳိး ခံစားရသည္။ Her efforts finally bore fruit and permission was granted. ❏ bear hard, heavily, severely, etc on sb [ IDM ] ဖိစီးသည္။ Taxation bears heavily on us all. ❏ bear in mind (that) … [ IDM ] မွတ္ထားပါ။ ထည့္ တြက္ပါ။ I'd love to play tennis with you, but please bear in mind (that) this is only the second time I've played. ❏ bear on sth [ PHRV ] သက္ဆိုင္သည္။ ပတ္သက္သည္။ These are matters that bear on the welfare of the community. ❏ bear sb/sth out [ PHRV ] ေထာက္ခံသည္။ The other witnesses will bear me out/bear out what I say. ❏ bear up (against/under sth) [ PHRV ] ေတာင့္ထားသည္။ ႀကံ႕ႀကံ႕ခံသည္။ Bear up! Things could be a lot worse. ❍ He's bearing up well under the strain of losing his job. ❏ bear with sb/sth [ PHRV ] စိတ္ရွည္သည္။ သည္းညည္းခံ သည္။ We must bear with her (ie treat her with sympathy) during this difficult period. ❍ If you will bear with me (ie be patient and listen to me) a little longer, I'll answer your question. ❏ bear witness (to sth) [ IDM ] သက္ေသခံသည္။ သက္ေသ ျဖစ္သည္။ His evidence/He bore witness to my testimony. ❍ ( fig ) The new housing bears witness to the energy of the local council. ❏ be borne in on sb [ IDM ] သေဘာေပါက္လာသည္။ နားလည္လာသည္။ သိရိွလာသည္။ The terrible truth was borne in on him(ie He became fully aware of it). ❍ It was gradually borne in on us that defeat was inevitable. ❏ bring sth to bear (on sb/sth) [ IDM ] က်ေရာက္ ေစသည္။ We must bring all our energies to bear upon the task. ❍ Pressure was brought to bear on us to finish the work on time.

Examples

1. [can’t bear doing something/to do something] : Sue can’t bear to be parted from her baby daughter.
2. I can’t bear seeing food thrown away.
3. [can hardly bear to do something] : I could hardly bear to watch.
4. [can’t bear the thought/idea of] : She couldn’t bear the thought of moving again.
5. [more than someone can bear] : Being made a fool of in front of a roomful of people was more than he could bear.
6. Most of her friends can’t bear her husband.
7. She bore all her suffering with incredible patience.
8. The pain was more than I could bear.
9. [bear the hallmarks/signs/stamp of something] : The incident bore all the hallmarks of a racist attack.
10. [bear a resemblance/relation/similarity to] : His description bore no relation to reality.
11. [bear the scars/marks of something] : Many buildings in the town still bear the scars of the bombing.
12. Every new coin bears a date.
13. A blue banner bearing the words ‘Civil Rights March’
14. [bear someone’s signature] : The letter bore the signature of her grandfather.
15. The city still bears the French name of Aix-la-Chapelle.
16. A coffin bearing the remains of an old man
17. The floorboards could not bear the weight of the piano.
18. A missile-bearing warship
19. [bear arms] : Do you support the citizen’s right to bear arms?
20. The ewes usually bear twin lambs.
21. [bear someone something] : She bore him three sons.
22. The new stems bear the flowers.
23. [bear a grudge] : I hope you don’t still bear a grudge against me.
24. [bear someone something] : He had caused untold suffering
25. but they bore him no bitterness.