Down-and-out

Definition

down 1 /daƱn/ adv part ၁။ (က) ျမင့္ရာမွနိမ့္ရာသို႔ ဦးတည္လ်က္။ က်။ ခ်။ သြား။ pull down a blind ❍ fall/climb/jump down ❍ He looked down at her. မိန္းကေလးကို သူငံု႔ၾကည့္ သည္။ ❍ The sun went down below the horizon. ေနလံုးႀကီးသည္ မိုးကုပ္စက္ဝိုင္းေအာက္ ငုပ္လွ်ဳိးသြားသည္။ ❍ The ship went down (ie sank). (ခ) မ်ဳိခ်။ The baby's sick and can't keep her food down. (ဂ) မတ္ရပ္မွတံုးလံုး ျဖစ္လ်က္။ တိုက္ခ်။ လွဲခ်။ လဲေလ်ာင္း။ ခ်ဳိးခ်။ knock sb down ❍ lay sth down ❍ go and lie down ❍ cut/burn/break sth down. (ဃ) မတ္မတ္မွ ၫြတ္လ်က္။ (ထိုင္)ခ်။ (ဒူးတုပ္၊ ဒူးေထာက္) ခ်။ (ဝပ္) ခ်။ sit/kneel/crouch down ❍ He bent down to pick up his gloves. Compare UP adv part ၁ ၂။ နိမ့္ရာသို႔။ ေအာက္သို႔။ က်ဆင္းလ်က္။ Mary is not down yet (ie She is still in an upstairs room). ❍ The level of unemployment is down. ❍ The bread is on the third shelf down. အေပၚကေနေအာက္ တတိယအဆင့္မွာ ေပါင္မုန္႔ရိွတယ္။ ❍ We're two goals down already (ie The other team has scored two goals and we have scored none). Compare UP adv part ၂ ၃။ (ပေဟဠိအၫႊန္း) ေဒါင္လိုက္။ I can't do 3 down. Compare ACROSS adv part ၅ ၄။ (က) ၿမိဳ႕ႀကီးျပႀကီးမွ ေဝးလ်က္။ ေခ်ာင္က်ေသာအပိုင္း။ ေတာပိုင္းသို႔ဆင္းလ်က္။ move from London down to the country. (ခ) ေတာင္ဘက္ပိုင္း။ ေအာက္ပိုင္း။ living down south. (ဂ) ( Brit ) ေအာက္စဖို႔ဒ္၊ ကိန္းဘရစ္ တကၠသိုလ္တို႔မွ ဆင္း(သည္)။ going down at the end of the year. Compare UP adv part ၆ ၅။ အရိွန္၊ ပမာဏ စသည္ ေလ်ာ့ ၍၊ ေလွ်ာ့၍။ (ေလွ်ာ့)က်။ (မိွန္)က်။ (ၿငိမ္)က်။ Please turn the radio down a bit. calm/quieten/settle down ❍ The fire burned down. ❍ The noise was dying down. ❍ The wine was watered down for the children. ကေလးေတြ အတြက္ ဝိုင္ကိုေရေရာထားတယ္။ ❍ The heels of these shoes are quite worn down. ဖိနပ္က ဖေနာင့္ပါးေနၿပီ။ ၆။ (က) (ေရး)ခ်။ (ကူး)ခ်။ write it down ❍ copy/note/put/take sth down. (ခ) ~ (for sth) စာရင္းထည့္ (ထားသည္)။ Do you have me down for the team? ၇။ ~ (to sb/sth) ထိပ္ဆံုးမွ ေအာက္ဆံုး။ Everyone played well, from the captain down. ❍ Nobody was free from suspicion, from the head girl down to the youngest pupil. ❍ I could see everything now, down to the pattern on the teacups. ၈။ (က) (ေငြ) ကုန္သြား(သည္)။ ႐ံႈးသြား(သည္)။ After paying all the bills, I found myself £5 down. (ခ) တစ္စိတ္တစ္ေဒသအျဖစ္ လက္ငင္းေပးေခ်လ်က္။ Pay me £50 down/as a down payment and the rest at the end of the month. ၉။ ( infml ) (တစ္ခုခ်င္း၊ တစ္ေယာက္ခ်င္း စဥ္တိုက္ အေရးယူ ေဆာင္ရြက္ရာ၌) ၿပီးစီးလ်က္။ ‘How many candidates have you seen so far?’ ‘Ten down, four to go (ie four left to see). ’ ဆယ္ေယာက္လဲၿပီးၿပီ၊ ေလးေယာက္က်န္တယ္။ prep ၁။ အျမင့္မွအနိမ့္သို႔။ The stone rolled down the hill. ❍ Tears ran down her face. ❍ Her hair hung down her back to her waist. ၂။ (ျမစ္၊ ေခ်ာင္း) အတိုင္းစုန္လွ်င္။ There's a bridge a mile down the river from here. ၃။ တစ္ေလွ်ာက္။ အတိုင္း။ He lives just down the street. ❍ Go down the road till you reach the traffic lights. ❍ There it is, halfway down the page. အဲဒါ စာမ်က္ႏွာ အလယ္ ေလာက္မွာ ရိွတယ္။ ၄။ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္။ ေခတ္ကာလ တစ္ေလွ်ာက္။ an exhibition of costumes down the ages (ie from all periods of history). v ( infml ) ၁။ က်ဳိက္ခ်သည္။ ေမာ့ခ်သည္။ We downed our beer and left. ၂။ (ေလယာဥ္ စသည္ကို) ပစ္ခ်သည္။ adj ၁။ ( infml ) ဝမ္းနည္း[ေသာ]။ စိတ္အားညိႇဳးငယ္[ေသာ]။ စိတ္ဓာတ္က်[ေသာ]။ feeling a bit down at the moment. Compare UP adj ၂။ (ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ စသည္) ခြၽတ္ယြင္းေန[ေသာ]။ You'll have to wait—the system's down this morning. ❏ be down to sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) တာဝန္ျဖစ္သည္။ တာဝန္ ရိွသည္။ It's down to you now to look after the familyl business. ❏ be down to sth [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုး(ဒါ)ေလးပဲ က်န္တယ္။ Be down to one's last penny/dollar ❍ I'm afraid I can't buy you a drink—I'm down to my last 50p. ❏ be/go down with sth [ IDM ] ဖ်ားလို႔လဲေနတယ္။ Peter can't play tomorrow, he's (gone) down with flu. ❏ down-and-out n အိမ္မဲ့ရာမဲ့ ေငြေၾကးမရိွသူ။ ငမြဲ။ ❏ down at heel adj ခပ္စုတ္စုတ္။ The car was getting rather down at heel. ❍ a down-at-heel seaside resort. ❏ down through sth [ IDM ] ေခတ္ကာလ တစ္ေလွ်ာက္၊ အတြင္း။ Down through the years this town has seen many changes. ❏ down time n [U] ကြန္ပ်ဴတာ ခြၽတ္ယြင္းေနေသာ အခ်ိန္။ ❏ down-to-earth adj လက္ေတြ႕က်ေသာ။ က်ဳိးေၾကာင္း ဆင္ျခင္တတ္ေသာ။ လက္ေတြ႕ဘဝႏွင့္ နီးစပ္ေသာ။ a down-to-earth person ❍ a refreshingly down-to-earth approach to the problem. ❏ down tools [ IDM ] ( Brit ) (အလုပ္သမားမ်ား) အလုပ္ မလုပ္ဘဲ ႐ုတ္တရက္ရပ္ထားသည္။ ❏ down under [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဩစေၾတးလ်တြင္။ Down under they speak their own kind of English. ❏ down with sb/sth [ IDM ] က်ဆံုးပါေစ။ ပ်က္စီးပါေစ။ Down with the government! ❍ Down with school uniforms! ❏ have a down on sb/sth [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ရန္လုပ္ ေနသည္။ ျငဴစူေနသည္။ မဲေနသည္။ She's got a down on me—I don't know why. down 2 /daƱn/ n [U] ၁။ ငွက္ေမြးႏု။ pillows filled with down. ၂။ ေမြးႏု။ ေမြးညင္း။ The first down was beginning to appear on the young man's face.

Examples

1. Someone pushed him and he fell down the stairs.
2. Snowflakes floated down through the cold night air.
3. Tears were rolling down his cheeks.
4. We watched the sun go down.
5. We paused for a moment
6. gazing down into the valley below.
7. Steps leading down to the beach
8. The down escalator
9. Their plane came down in a field beside the motorway.
10. Get down off that roof – it’s dangerous.
11. Put the box down on the table.
12. It was dark and cold down in the cellar.
13. Your name’s further down the list.
14. [down below] : We could hear noises coming from down below.
15. Why don’t you sit down and rest your legs?
16. I crouched down behind some bushes.
17. The headache was so bad she spent the rest of the day lying down.
18. The video has exercises you can do while you are sitting down.
19. I was walking down the street with a couple of friends.
20. James looked back down the drive to see if anyone was following him.
21. We sailed down the Yellow River towards the open sea.
22. They live somewhere down Park Avenue.
23. [100 yards/2 miles etc down something] : The nearest hotel is five or six miles down the main road.
24. There’s another bridge further down the river.
25. Sandra’s just gone down to the shops.
26. I saw him down at the station this morning.
27. Thousands of Scottish fans will be travelling down to London for the big match.
28. Newhaven is down on the south coast.
29. The government is determined to bring down unemployment.
30. [down to] : House prices have come down to a more reasonable level.
31. [down by] : Overall demand for heating energy last winter was down by about 10%.
32. [down on] : Profits are 15% down on last year.
33. The storm had died down by evening.
34. Turn down the radio.
35. The opera house was burnt down in 1990.
36. It’s more than ten years since the Berlin Wall came down.
37. I copied down his address and phone number.
38. Let me write that down before I forget it.
39. The lid of the box was screwed down tight.
40. We need to wash down the walls before we can start painting.
41. He gulped down his tea and got up from the table.
42. Lunch consisted of pizza washed down with a glass of milk.
43. [be/go/come down with something] : Poor Susan went down with flu just before Christmas.
44. [hand/pass down] : The ancient Gaelic songs have been handed down from generation to generation.
45. [be/feel down] : He’s been feeling very down since his wife went away.
46. [get someone down] : All these problems are getting her down.
47. [down for] : I think I’m down for babysitting on Monday night.
48. At half-time our team were two goals down.
49. [one/two etc down and one/two etc to go] : Well
50. that’s another exam over. Two down and four to go.
51. Own a brand new Fiat Bravo for only £99 cash down and £31.68 a week.