Excuses

Definition

excuse /Çk'skju:s/ n ၁။ ~ (for sth/for doing sth) ဆင္ေျခ။ ဆင္ေျခဆင္လက္။ ေစာဒက။ He's always making excuses for being late. ❍ Late again? What's your excuse this time? ❍ There's no excuse for such behaviour. ❍ He made his excuses (ie He said sorry and gave his reasons for leaving early) and left. ၂။ ~ (for sth/doing sth); ~ (to do sth) အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္။ အခြင့္အလမ္း။ a good excuse for a party ❍ The party gave me an excuse to wear my new dress. /Çk'skju:z/ v ၁။ ~ sth; ~ sb (for sth/doing sth) ခြင့္လႊတ္ သည္။ Please excuse my late arrival. ❍ Excuse me for being late. ❍ The audience could be excused for thinking it was an amateur production. ❍ Excuse my interrupting you. ၂။ (က) ~ sth; ~ sb/oneself for sth/doing sth ဆင္ေျခေပးသည္။ အေၾကာင္းျပသည္။ Nothing can excuse such rudeness. ❍ He excused himself for being late by saying that his car had broken down. (ခ) ~ oneself ခြင့္ပန္သည္။ ခြင့္ေတာင္းသည္။ She excused herself hurriedly, and ran out of the room. ၃။ ~ sb (from sth) (esp passive) ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခြင့္ေပးသည္။ He was excused (from) piano practice. ❍ She excused herself from the walk saying she didn't feel well. ❍ Only pregnant women can be excused. ❏ be excused [ IDM ] ( often euph ) (ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အျပင္ထြက္လို၍ ပန္ၾကားေသာစကား)။ ခြင့္ျပဳပါ။ Please can I be excused? ❏ excusable /Çk'skju:zǝbl/ adj ခြင့္လႊတ္ႏိုင္ေလာက္ေသာ။ Their mistake was excusable. Compare INEXCUSABLE ❏ excuse me [ IDM ] ၁။ တစ္ဆိတ္ေလာက္။ ေက်းဇူးျပဳ၍။ Excuse me, do you have the right time? ၂။ (ၾကားျဖတ္ ေျပာလိုရာ၌ အယဥ္အေက်းသံုးေသာစကား)။ ခြင့္ျပဳပါ။ Please excuse me while I answer the telephone. ❍ Excuse me, but I don't think that's quite true. ၃။ excuse me? ( esp US ) ျပန္ေျပာပါဦး။

Examples

1. A reasonable/valid/legitimate excuse
2. [excuse for] : What excuse did they give for the delay?
3. [have an excuse] : Joe was late
4. but as always he had an excuse.
5. [make/give an excuse] : He made some excuse about having a lot of work to do.
6. [excuse for] : Birthdays are always a good excuse for a party.
7. [an excuse to do something] : Emily was glad of an excuse to change the subject.