Good for you

Definition

good / gƱd / adj ( better /'betǝ(r)/; best / best/) ၁။ ေကာင္းေသာ။ လိမၼာေသာ။ a good lecture/ performance/ harvest/ meal ❍ good pronunciation/ behaviour/ eyesight ❍ a good (eg sharp) knife ❍ The show is just good old-fashioned entertainment. ❍ Is the light good enough to take photographs? ❍ The car has very good brakes. ❍ I wished her good luck. ❍ Her English is very good. ❍ She has a very good (ie attractive) figure. ❍ NICE ၂။ (က) ~ (at sth/ doing sth) စြမ္းေသာ။ ကြၽမ္းက်င္လိမၼာေသာ။ က်င္လည္ေသာ။ a good teacher/ hairdresser/ poet ❍ good at mathematics/ languages/ describing things ❍ a good loser (ie sb who doesn't complain when they lose). (ခ) ~ with sth/ sb လက္ရာေျမာက္ [ေသာ]။ ေျပျပစ္ [ေသာ]။ good with one's hands (eg able to draw, make things, etc) ❍ He's very good with children (ie can look after them well, amuse them, etc). ၃။ (က) အက်င့္သီလ စင္ၾကယ္ေသာ။ သူေတာ္ေကာင္းတရားႏွင့္ ျပည့္ဝေသာ။ a good deed ❍ try to lead a good life. (ခ) လိမၼာ ယဥ္ေက်း ေသာ။ Try to be a good girl. ၄။ ~ (to sb) သူတစ္ပါးအား ကူညီလိုစိတ္ရိွေသာ။ ၾကင္နာတတ္ေသာ။ ေကာင္းေသာ။ He was very good to me when I was ill. ❍ It was good of you to come. ❍ Would you be good enough to carry this for me? ၅။ ႏွစ္လို႔ဖြယ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ သာယာေသာ။ ေကာင္း ေသာ။ The firm has had good times and bad times. ❍ What good weather we're having! ❍ Have you heard the good news about my award? ❍ It's good to be home again. ၆။ စားလို႔ရေသာ။ စားႏိုင္ေသာ။ good eggs/ fruit ❍ Separate the good meat from the bad. ၇။ မခြၽတ္ယြင္းေသာ။ ေကာင္းေသာ။ good teeth and bones ❍ This is my good ear __ I'm rather deaf in the other one. ၈။ လက္ခံႏိုင္ေသာ။ ခိုင္မာေသာ။ ေျခေျချမစ္ျမစ္ရိွေသာ။ ေကာင္းေသာ။ This is a good example of what I mean. ❍ I have good reason to be suspicious. ❍ Oversleeping is hardly a good excuse for being late. ၉။ အတုမဟုတ္၊ အစစ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ This note is good, but that one's counterfeit. ❍ ( fig ) I gave good money for that camera, and it turned out to be worthless. ၁၀။ ပြဲတိုးေသာ။ My one good suit is at the cleaner's. ❍ Wear your good clothes to go to church. ၁၁။ ပယ္ပယ္ နယ္နယ္ [ျဖစ္ေသာ]။ စိတ္ရိွလက္ရိွ [ျဖစ္ေသာ]။ အားရ ပါးရ [ျဖစ္ေသာ]။ give sb a good beating/ scolding/ telling-off ❍ go for a good long walk ❍ We had a good laugh about it afterwards. ၁၂။ ဟာသေျမာက္ေသာ။ ရယ္ဖြယ္ေကာင္းေသာ။ a good story/ joke ❍ "That's a good one!" she said, laughing loudly. ၁၃။ ~ (for sb/ sth) ေကာင္းေသာ။ တည့္ေသာ။ This cream is good for (ie helps to heal) burns. ❍ Is this kind of food good for you? ❍ Sunshine is good for your plants. ၁၄။ ~ (for sth/ to do sth) သင့္ေသာ။ Now is a good time to buy a house. ❍ This beach is good for swimming but bad for surfing. ❍ She would be good for the job. ၁၅။ ~ for sth (က) ေကာင္းေကာင္း (ေနႏိုင္၊ သံုးႏိုင္) ေသးေသာ။ You're good for (ie You will live) a few years yet. ❍ This car's good for many more miles. (ခ) တန္ေသာ။ …ရေသာ။ I'll sell my bike __ that's good for at least £50. ❍ This game is always good for a laugh. (ဂ) (အေႂကြးအတြက္) စိတ္ခ် ရေသာ။ He/ His credit is good for £5000. (ဃ) တရားဝင္ သံုးႏိုင္ေသာ။ The return half of the ticket is good for three months. ၁၆။ (ႏႈတ္ဆက္စကားတြင္သံုး)။ Good morning/ afternoon/ evening! ❍ Good night, Lynn. ၁၇။ ( dated or joc ) (ယဥ္ေက်းပ်ဴငွာမႈကို ေဖာ္ျပရန္အသံုး)။ my good sir/ man/ friend ❍ How is your good lady (ie your wife)? ၁၈။ (ခ်ီးက်ဴးစကား)။ Good old Fred! ❍ Good man! That's just what I wanted. ၁၉။ (အာေမၮိတ္မ်ားတြင္ အသံုး)။ Good Heavens! ❍ Good God! ၂၀။ (သေဘာတူျခင္း၊ ႏွစ္ၿခိဳက္ျခင္းျပ အာေမၮိတ္စကား)။ "We hope to visit you next week. " "Oh, good!" ၂၁။ (with a ) (က) အသင့္ အတင့္ မ်ားျပားေသာ။ အေတာ္။ a good many people ❍ The kitchen was a good size. ❍ eat a good-sized meal ❍ We've come a good (ie long) way/ distance. (ခ) အသင့္တင့္ ၾကာေသာ၊ ေဝးေသာ စသည္။ အေတာ္။ We waited for a good hour. ❍ It's a good three miles to the station. ❍ She ate a good half of the cake. n ၁။ [U] အေကာင္း။ the difference between good and evil ❍ Is religion always a force for good? ၂။ [U] ေကာင္းက်ဳိး။ အက်ဳိး။ work for the good of one's country ❍ I'm giving you this advice for your own good. ❍ Do social workers do a lot of good? Compare DO-GOODER ၃။ the good [pl v ] လူေကာင္းသူေကာင္း။ a gathering of the good and the great. adv ( US infml ) ေကာင္းေကာင္း။ Now, you listen to me good! ❏ as good as [ IDM ] …သေလာက္။ He as good as called me a coward (ie suggested that I was a coward without actually using the word "coward"). ❍ The matter is as good as settled. ❏ be no/ not much/ any/ some good (doing sth) [ IDM ] အက်ဳိးမရိွ။ အသံုးမက်။ မထူး။ It's no good (my) talking to him. ❍ Was his advice ever any good? ❍ This gadget isn't much good. ❍ What good is it asking her? ❏ do (sb) good [ IDM ] အက်ဳိးရိွသည္။ ေကာင္းသည္။ It will do you good to have a holiday. ❍ This cough medicine tastes nice but it doesn't do much good (ie is not very effective). ❍ ( usu ironic ) Much good may it do you (ie You will not get much benefit from it). ❏ for good (and all) [ IDM ] အၿပီးအပိုင္။ She says that she's leaving the country for good (ie intending never to return to it). ❏ good and… [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ။ က်က်နန။ I won't go until I'm good and ready. ❏ good faith n [U] စိတ္ရင္းေကာင္း။ He acted in good faith. ❏ a good few [ IDM ] အေတာ္။ ေတာ္ေတာ္။ 'How many came?' 'A good few'. ❍ There are still a good few empty seats. ❏ good-for-nothing n , adj အသံုးမက်ေသာ။ ပ်င္းရိေသာ။ Where's that good-for-nothing son of yours? ❏ good for you , sb , them , etc; ( esp Austral ) good on you , etc ( infml ) [ IDM ] ေကာင္းလိုက္ေလ။ She passed the exam? Good for her! ❏ Good Friday n (ခရစ္ေတာ္) ထေျမာက္ရာ တနဂၤေႏြမတိုင္မီ က်ေရာက္သည့္ ေသာၾကာေန႔။ ❏ good-hearted adj စိတ္ထားေကာင္းမြန္ေသာ။ ၾကင္နာ တတ္ေသာ။ ❏ good humour n [U] သေဘာေကာင္းျခင္း။ ေပ်ာ္တတ္ျခင္း။ a meeting marked by good humour and friendliness ❍ a man of great good humour. ❏ good-humoured adj သေဘာေကာင္းေသာ။ ေဖာ္ေရြေသာ။ ရႊင္ေသာ။ good-humouredly adv ❏ good looks n [pl] ေခ်ာေမာေသာ႐ုပ္ရည္။ ❏ good-looking adj ေခ်ာေသာ။ She's terribly good-looking. ❍ a good-looking horse. ❍ BEAUTIFUL ❏ good nature n [U] စိတ္ေကာင္းသေဘာေကာင္း။ ❏ good-natured adj စိတ္ထားေကာင္းေသာ။ ရင္းႏီွး ေဖာ္ေရြေသာ။ a good- natured person/ discussion. ❏ good-naturedly adv ခင္ခင္မင္မင္။ ရင္းရင္းႏီွးႏီွး။ ေဖာ္ေဖာ္ေရြေရြ။ ❏ good-neighbourliness n [U] အိမ္နားနီးခ်င္း ေကာင္း ပီသမႈ။ ❏ good sense n [U] စဥ္းစားဉာဏ္။ ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္ႏိုင္မႈ။ ❏ good- tempered adj စိတ္ထားေကာင္းေသာ။ Compare BAD-TEMPERED ❏ to the good [ IDM ] ျမတ္ေသာ။ သာေသာ။ We are £500 to the good (ie We have £500 more than we had). ❍ At half-time our team was one goal to the good. ❏ up to no good [ IDM ] ( infml ) မဟုတ္တ႐ုတ္ လုပ္သည္။ Where's that child now? I'm sure he'll be up to no good wherever he is.

Examples

1. We saw a really good film last night.
2. They were all dressed in their best clothes.
3. These dishes are too good to use every day.
4. How good is his English?
5. Francine was a very good cook.
6. [good at] : Bob is pretty good at fixing things.
7. [good with] : Gina has always been good with animals.
8. Jake is really good with his hands (=skilful at making or doing things using his hands).
9. This rock will make a good paperweight.
10. [good for] : Electric cars are good for driving around town.
11. Dad gave me some really good advice.
12. This is surely the best argument against the death penalty.
13. Give me one good reason why I should lend you money.
14. Now would be a good time to ask for a pay rise.
15. What’s the best way to get to the motorway from here?
16. What’s a good time to call you?
17. [good for] : Thursday is good for me – can you make it then?
18. George had always tried to lead a good life.
19. It would be good if you gave the money back.
20. Ruth’s children are always so good.
21. [as good as gold] : He sat there as good as gold the whole time.
22. [be a good boy/girl] : Be a good boy and play quietly.
23. A good Catholic
24. [good to] : Helen’s parents were always good to us.
25. [good about] : Sheryl’s brother has been good about helping out with the new baby.
26. [it is good of someone to do something] : It was so good of you to come.
27. We had such a good time in Madrid.
28. A hot bath would be good now.
29. One more piece of good news: Beth had a bouncing baby girl!
30. [it is/feels good to do something] : It’s good to finally meet you.
31. Carol looks good with short hair
32. don’t you think?
33. I don’t feel very good – I’m going to lie down.
34. He’s not in a very good mood.
35. [good for] : Exercise is good for you.
36. [it is good (for someone) to do something] : It’s not good to eat so much junk food.
37. [good for] : The recent tax cuts will be good for business.
38. He earns a good salary as a consultant.
39. The library has a good selection of computer books.
40. They’ve known each other for a good many years.
41. Do you think the eggs are still good?
42. [good for] : The tickets are good for three weeks.
43. [good for] : I think these trousers are good for another few months.
44. A good £20 note
45. ‘They should be here in half an hour.’ ‘Good.’
46. Oh
47. good
48. you remembered to buy the milk.
49. Good. Then we’ll meet at midday in front of the theatre.
50. He comes from a very good family.
51. Your accent doesn’t make you better than me.
52. We moved to a smaller house in a good area.
53. Tony has a good job at the post office.
54. They made some good investments.
55. Thirty pounds is a good price for jeans.
56. We got a good deal on our plane tickets.
57. The witness said she got a good look at his face.
58. What I need is a good night’s sleep.
59. A good joke/story
60. We’ve been waiting for a good half hour.
61. There’s a good chance of showers tonight.
62. Customer: Thank you! Cashier: You are welcome! Have a good one!
63. - Would you like some ice-cream? - I'm good.