Begin

Definition

begin /bÇ'gÇn/ v ( -nn-; pt began /bÇ'gæn/; pp begun /bÇ'gʌn/) ၁။ (က) စတင္သည္။ begin work/a meeting ❍ The building hasn't even been begun. ❍ I began school (ie attended it for the first time) when I was five. ❍ He has begun (on) (ie started reading or writing) a new book. ❍ Let's begin at (ie start from) page 9. ❍ He began (his talk) with an apology. ❍ She began by telling us a story. (ခ) စသည္။ When does the concert begin? ❍ The meeting will begin at nine. ❍ Building began last year. ❍ The new fare will be £1, beginning (from) next month. (ဂ) စခဲ့သည္။ He began as an actor (before starting to direct films). ❍ What began as a minor scuffle turned into a full-scale riot. ၂။ (က) (ခံစားမႈ၊ အေတြးအသိ၊ အမႈအလုပ္ စတင္ေၾကာင္းၫႊန္ျပရာ၌ သံုးသည္။ ) She began to feel dizzy. ❍ I'm beginning to understand. ❍ I was beginning to think you'd never come. ❍ He began to get dressed. ❍ Everyone began talking at once. (ခ) (အရာဝတၳဳတစ္ခု၏ျဖစ္စဥ္ စတင္ေၾကာင္းျပရာ၌ သံုးသည္။ ) The paper was beginning to peel off the walls. ❍ The water is beginning to boil. ❍ It began to snow/began snowing. ❍ The train has begun to slow/begun slowing down. ၃။ ပထမဦးဆံုးစတင္သည္။ The school began in 1920, with only 10 pupils. ❍ He began a new magazine on post-war architecture. ၄။ အစခ်ီသည္။ (ေနရာက) စတင္သည္။ The English alphabet begins with ‘A’ and ends with ‘Z’. ❍ Where does Asia begin and Europe end? ၅။ စ (လုပ္)သည္။ စ(ေျပာ)သည္။ Shall I begin? ❍ ‘I'm sorry,’she began. ၆။ ( infml ) (ျငင္းပယ္ဝါက် မ်ားတြင္ သံုးေလ့ရိွသည္။ ) စတင္ရန္ အားထုတ္သည္။ The authorities couldn't even begin to assess the damage (ie because it was so great). ❍ I can't begin (ie I don't know how) to thank you enough. ❍ He didn't even begin to understand my problem. ❏ beginner n လက္သင္။ အစိမ္း။ ဝါႏု။ a beginner's course. ❏ beginner's luck [ IDM ] စစခ်င္းကံေကာင္းမႈ။ ❏ beginning n ၁။ (က) အစ။ Recite the poem (right) from the (very) beginning. ❍ I've read the book from beginning to end. ❍ Monday morning—the beginning of a new week. (ခ) ပထမပိုင္း။ အစပိုင္း။ I missed the beginning of the film. ❍ You've made a good beginning. ၂။ (often pl ) မူလ။ ျမစ္ဖ်ား။ Did democracy have its beginnings in ancient Greece? ❍ Many big businesses start from small beginnings. ❏ the beginning of the end [ IDM ] နိဂံုး၏အစ။ The upsurge of nationalism may prove to be the beginning of the end of/for Communism worldwide. ❏ to begin with [ IDM ] ၁။ အစတုန္းကေတာ့။ To begin with he had no money, but later he became immensely rich. ❍ HOPEFUL ၂။ တစ္ အခ်က္ကေတာ့။ နံပါတ္တစ္အေနနဲ႔။ I'm not going. To begin with I don't have a ticket, and secondly I don't like the play.

Examples

1. She felt her life was just beginning.
2. The ceremony is due to begin at noon.
3. My troubles began the night I met Roger.
4. [begin as] : It began as a practical joke.
5. [begin with] : All meals begin with a short prayer.
6. The competition began with one of the teams being disqualified.
7. [begin with] : We usually use ‘an’ before a word beginning with a vowel.
8. The Lake District begins just north of Kendal.
9. ‘It isn’t like that’
10. he began
11. but Ben interrupted him.
12. [begin doing something] : He began shouting abuse at them.
13. [begin to do something] : Suddenly the rain began to fall.
14. [be just beginning to do something] : The buds were just beginning to open.
15. [begin to do something] : Now we were beginning to feel excited.
16. I was beginning to wonder if I’d ever find you!
17. The police have already begun their investigation.
18. Their truck began the steep descent to the village.
19. [begin (something) by doing something] : I’d like to begin by thanking you all for coming.
20. [begin (something) with something] : We began the meeting with a discussion about the budget.
21. [begin (something) as something] : He began his working life as a waiter.
22. I began the book with high hopes.