I thought as much

Definition

think /θÇŋk / v ( pt,pp thought /θↄ:t/) ၁။ ~ ( about sth ) စဥ္းစားသည္။ ဆင္ျခင္သည္။ ေတြးသည္။ ထင္သည္။ Are animals able to think? ❍ I'm sorry, I didn't think (ie said when one has offended sb accidentally). ❍ Let me think a moment (ie Give me time before I answer). ❍ Philosophers have thought about this problem for centuries. See also THINK ABOUT STH/SB, THINK ABOUT (DOING) STH ၂။ (not used in the continuous tenses) ထင္သည္။ သေဘာရသည္။ ယံုၾကည္သည္။ ယူဆ သည္။ ‘Do you think (that) it's going to rain?’ ‘Yes, I think so. ’ ❍ I think this is their house but I'm not sure. ❍ I thought I heard a scream. ❍ Am I right in thinking that you once lived here? ❍ Don't think you'll get away with this! ❍ Who do you think you are (ie Why are you behaving in this proud, superior way)? ❍ I think he ought to resign. ❍ He ought to resign, I think. ❍ We'll need about 20 chairs, I should think. ❍ Do you think it likely/ that it is likely? ❍ a species long thought to be extinct ❍ He's thought to be one of the richest men in Europe. ❍ The galaxy is much larger than was previously thought. ❍ I don't care what anyone thinks, I'm going to marry her. ၃။ စိတ္ကူးသည္။ စဥ္းစားသည္။ I think I'll go for a swim. ❍ I'm thinking in terms of about 200 guests. ❍ I didn't think (ie It did not occur to me) to tell her. ၄။ (used esp in the continuous tenses) ေတြးသည္။ စဥ္းစားသည္။ You're very quiet. What are you thinking? ❍ I was just thinking (to myself) what a long way it is. ❍ Here goes, she thought. ၅။ (no passive) (က) စိတ္ကူးသည္။ စဥ္းစား သည္။ ထင္သည္။ We couldn't think where you'd gone. ❍ Think how nice it would be to see them again. ❍ I can't think that he would be so stupid. (ခ) ေတြးသည္။ ထင္သည္။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္သည္။ Who'd have thought it (eg of a surprising event)? ❍ I never thought (that) I'd see her again. ❍ ( fml ) Who would have thought to find you here? ၆။ ( infml ) (no passive) စဥ္းစားသည္။ စိတ္ကူးသည္။ ေတြးေခၚသည္။ Let's think positive. ❍ You need to think big (ie be ambitious). ❍ If you want to make money you've got to think money. n [sing] ( infml ) အႀကံ။ အေတြး။ စိတ္ကူး။ I'll have a think and let you know tomorrow. ❏ come to think of it [ IDM ] အခုမွျပန္သတိရမိတယ္။ Come to think of it, he did mention seeing you. ❏ have (got) another think coming [ IDM ] စိတ္ကူး လြဲေနၿပီ။ If you think I'm going to pay all your bills you've got another think coming. ❏ I thought as much [ IDM ] ထင္သားပဲ။ ‘ He said he'd forgotten. ’ ‘I thought as much’. ❏ if/ when you think about it [ IDM ] ျပန္ေတြးမိေတာ့။ When you think about it, her behaviour was a little unusual. ❏ think about sth/sb [ PHRV ] ၁။ သတိရမိသည္။ ေအာက္ေမ့သည္။ Do you ever think about your childhood? ❍ I can't stop thinking about her. ၂။ စဥ္းစားသည္။ Don't you ever think about other people? ❍ All he ever thinks about is money. ❏ think about (doing) sth [ PHRV ] စဥ္းစားသည္။ I'll think about it and let you know tomorrow. ❍ She's thinking about changing her job. ❍ She's thinking seriously about her future. ❏ think again [ IDM ] ျပန္စဥ္းစားဦး။ မထင္ေလနဲ႔။ Perhaps we need to think again about privatization. ❍ If you think I'm going to lend you my car you can think again! ❏ think ahead (to sth) [ PHRV ] ႀကိဳေတြးသည္။ Thinking ahead to our next meeting… ❏ think aloud [ IDM ] စိတ္ထဲရိွသလို၊ ေပၚသလို ေျပာသည္။ ❐ think back (to sth) [ PHRV ] ျပန္သတိရသည္။ ေအာက္ေမ့ သည္။ I keep thinking back to the day I arrived here. ❏ think better of it/ of doing sth [ IDM ] ျပန္လည္စဥ္းစား ၿပီးေနာက္ မလုပ္ရန္ဆံုးျဖတ္သည္။ Rosie was about to protest but thought better of it. ❏ think (the) better of sb [ IDM ] အထင္ႀကီးမိသည္။ She has behaved appallingly—I must say I thought better of her. ❏ think for oneself [ PHRV ] ကိုယ့္ဦးေႏွာက္ႏွင့္ကိုယ္ ေတြးတတ္သည္။ ❏ think nothing of it [ IDM ] (ေက်းဇူးတင္စကား၊ ခြင့္လႊတ္ရန္ ေတာင္းပန္စကား ေျပာသူကို ျပန္ေျပာသည့္အခါ သံုးေသာ စကား)။ အို ရပါတယ္။ ဒါကို ေခါင္းထဲထည့္မေနပါနဲ႔။ ကိစၥမရိွပါဘူး။ အားနာဖို႔မလိုပါဘူး။ ❏ think nothing of (doing) sth [ IDM ] ပင္ပန္းခက္ခဲလွ သည္ဟု ထည့္တြက္ျခင္းမရိွ။ She thinks nothing of walking thirty miles a day. ❏ think of sth/ sb [ PHRV ] ၁။ တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္ကိုရည္ရြယ္သည္။ When I made those remarks, I wasn't thinking of anyone in particular. ၂။ ထည့္စဥ္းစားသည္။ There are so many things to think of when buying a house. ❍ You can't expect me to think of everything! ၃။ စဥ္းစားသည္။ Can anybody think of a way to raise money? ❍ ‘What shall we do now?’ ‘I'll think of something. ’ ❍ Have you thought of a name for the baby yet? ၄။ (esp after can ) မွတ္မိသည္။ I can think of at least three occasions when he arrived late. ❍ I can't think of his name at the moment. ၅။ ယူဆသည္။ သေဘာထားသည္။ I think of this place as my home. ❍ She is thought of as a possible future director. ❏ think of (doing) sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ စဥ္းစားေနသည္။ They're thinking of moving to America. ❍ I did think of resigning, but I decided against it. ၂။ မွန္းၾကည့္သည္။ စိတ္ကူးထဲထည့္သည္။ Just think of the expense! ❍ I couldn't think of letting you take the blame (ie I would not allow that to happen). ❍ She would never think of marrying him. ❏ think sth out [ PHRV ] ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္သည္။ ခ်ိန္ဆသည္။ ဆင္ျခင္သည္။ Think out your answer before you start writing. ❍ It's a very well thought out scheme. ❏ think sth over [ PHRV ] အခ်ိန္ယူစဥ္းစားသည္။ Please think over what I've said. ❍ I'd like more time to think things over. ❏ think straight [ IDM ] ဟန္က်ပန္က်ေတြးႏိုင္သည္။ I'm so tired I can hardly think straight. ❏ think-tank n ႏိုင္ငံေရး၊ လူမႈေရး၊ စီးပြားေရး အႀကံေပးအဖြဲ႕။ ❏ think sth through [ PHRV ] ေျခသိမ္းေခါင္းပိုက္စဥ္းစား ဆင္ျခင္သည္။ ❏ think twice about (doing) sth [ IDM ] စဥ္းစဥ္းစားစား လည္း လုပ္ပါဦး။ You should think twice about employing someone you've never met. ❏ think sth up [ PHRV ]( infml ) အႀကံထုတ္သည္။ think up novel ways of raising money ❍ Can't you think up a better excuse than that? ❏ think the world, highly, a lot, not much, poorly, little, etc of sb/ sth [ IDM ] (not used in the continuous tenses) အထင္ႀကီးသည္၊ အထင္မႀကီး၊ အထင္ေသးသည္ စသည္။ He thinks the world of his daughter. ❍ His work is highly thought of by the critics. ❍ What do you think of my new dress? ငါ့ဂါဝန္အသစ္ ဟန္ရဲ႕လား။

Examples

1. [think (that)] : What do you think he wants?
2. [think (that)] : I don’t think there’s a bank in the village.
3. [be thought to do something] : Faulty wiring is thought to have caused the fire.
4. [I think so] : ‘Is James coming tonight?’ ‘I think so
5. but I’m not sure.’
6. [think (that)] : I think he’s arriving tomorrow.
7. [think of someone/something as something] : Nobody seriously thought of him as a candidate for the job.
8. [think someone something] : I thought him a very nice young man.
9. Come on
10. think! There must be a solution.
11. Let’s stop and think before we do anything else.
12. [think about] : I need to think seriously about their offer.
13. [think of] : I’ve got to think of a way to earn more money.
14. [think of] : She thought of him often.
15. He could never think of the woman’s name.
16. [think about] : I often think about the time we spent in Rome.
17. [think to do something] : Did you think to ask about the delivery time?
18. [think of] : It was kind of you to think of our daughter.
19. [think of yourself] : It’s clear he was thinking only of himself.
20. I wasn’t worried – I just thought
21. ‘Why is she doing that?’
22. I expect we were all thinking the same thing.
23. Were you thinking in terms of the entire test?
24. [think of/about] : Just think of what she’s suffered!
25. [think that] : I never thought that I’d end up working here.
26. Here’s a clue: Think Liverpool.