Believe

Definition

believe /bÇ'li:v/ v ၁။ (က) ယံုၾကည္သည္။ She believed everything he told her. ❍ I refuse to believe it. ❍ I'll believe it/that when I see it (ie I will not believe it until I have solid evidence). ❍ I'm told he's been in prison, and I can well believe it (ie it does not surprise me). ❍ Don't believe what you read in the papers. (ခ) (တစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္ စကားကို) အမွန္ဟု လက္ခံသည္။ I don't know which of them to believe. ၂။ ထင္ျမင္ယူဆသည္။ People used to believe (that) the world was flat. ❍ It was widely believed that he had betrayed his country. ❍ I believe I should congratulate you on becoming a father. ❍ It happened on 22 February, a Monday I believe. ❍ The police believed him to be guilty. ❍ I genuinely believe it to have been a mistake. ❍ ‘Is he coming?’ ‘I believe so not. ’ ၃။ ယံုၾကည္ကိုးကြယ္သည္။ He thinks that everyone who believes will go to heaven. ❏ believable adj ယံုၾကည္လက္ခံႏိုင္ေလာက္ေသာ။ an entirely believable explanation/scenario ❍ a play with believable characters. Compare UNBELIEVABLE ❏ believe in sb/sth [ PHRV ] တကယ္ရိွေၾကာင္း ယံုၾကည္ သည္။ I believe in God. ❍ Do you believe in ghosts? ❏ believe in sth/sb; believe in doing sth [ PHRV ] စိတ္ခ်ယံုၾကည္သည္။ မွန္ေၾကာင္း၊ ေကာင္းေၾကာင္း ယံုၾကည္သည္။ She has doubts about him, but I believe in him implicitly. ❍ Do you believe in nuclear disarmament? ❍ He believes in getting plenty of exercise. ❏ believe it or not [ IDM ] ယံုခ်င္ယံု မယံုခ်င္ေန။ Believe it or not, we were left waiting in the rain for two hours. ❏ believe (you) me [ IDM ] တကယ္ေျပာတာ။ Believe you me, this administration won't meddle with the tax system. ❏ believe sth of sb [ PHRV ] စြမ္းပကားကို ယံုၾကည္သည္။ If I hadn't seen him doing it I would never have believed it of him. ❏ believer n (ဘာသာတရား၌) သက္ဝင္ ယံုၾကည္သူ။ a message to all true believers of Islam. Compare UNBELIEVER ❏ be a (great/firm) believer in sth [ IDM ] စြဲစြဲၿမဲၿမဲ ယံုၾကည္သူ၊ တန္ဖိုးထားသူျဖစ္သည္။ I'm a great believer in (taking) regular physical exercise. ❏ don't you believe it! [ IDM ] ဘယ္ကလာ (ဟုတ္ရမွာလဲ)။ ‘He's only 34. ’ ‘Don't you believe it – he's at least 40. ’ ❏ make believe (that…) [ IDM ] ဂိုက္ဖမ္းသည္။ The boys liked to make believe (that) they were astronauts. See also MAKE-BELIEVE ❏ not believe one's ears/eyes [ IDM ] ကိုယ့္မ်က္စိ ကိုယ္ မယံု။ ကိုယ့္နားကိုယ္မယံု။ I stared at her, scarcely able to believe my ears. ❏ seeing is believing [ IDM ] ( saying ) ဒိ႒ေတြ႕မွယံု။ ❏ would you believe (it)? [ IDM ] ၾကားရင္ယံုမွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ Today, would you believe, she came to work in an evening dress!

Examples

1. Astronomers knew the Earth was round
2. but few people believed it.
3. [believe (that)] : I don’t believe that she’s ever been to Hong Kong.
4. [be widely/generally believed] : It is widely believed that the virus originally came from monkeys.
5. [find it hard/difficult to believe] : She found it hard to believe that he was a real businessman.
6. [I would never have believed] : I would never have believed such a place existed if I hadn’t seen it for myself.
7. The police didn’t believe her story.
8. He told me his version of events
9. but I didn’t believe a word of it.
10. ‘I did pay the money back!’ ‘OK
11. OK – I believe you!’
12. [believe (that)] : Scientists believe a cure for the disease will be discovered soon.
13. [honestly/truly believe] : I honestly believe he really loved her.
14. [reason to believe] : There is no reason to believe that he is not telling the truth.
15. [lead someone to believe something] : We were led to believe we could make a large profit.
16. [believe someone (to be) something] : His friends wouldn’t believe him to be capable of murder.
17. Do you still believe?