If you don't mind

Definition

mind /maÇnd / n ၁။ [U,C] စိတ္။ have the right qualities of mind for the job ❍ have complete peace of mind ❍ be in a disturbed state of mind ❍ His mind was full of dark thoughts. ❍ All sorts of fears passed through my mind. ❍ Wales would always be associated in my mind with that last summer with Helen. See also FRAME OF MIND, PRESENCE OF MIND ၂။ [C] (က) ဉာဏ္။ have a brilliant/ logical/ mathematical mind ❍ His mind was as sharp as ever. (ခ) ပညာရွင္။ one of the greatest minds of her generation. ၃။ [C] အေတြး။ စိတ္။ အာ႐ံု။ Keep your minds on your work! ❍ Her mind is completely occupied by the new baby. ၄။ [C usu sing ] မွတ္ဉာဏ္။ သတိ။ I can't think where I've left my umbrella—my mind's a complete blank! ၅။ [U,C] ဦးေႏွာက္။ သတိ။ He's 94 and his mind is going (ie he is becoming SENILE). ❍ The tragedy affected his mind. v ၁။ (က) စိတ္အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ အေရးစိုက္ သည္။ ဂ႐ုစိုက္သည္။ Do you mind the noise? ❍ I don't mind him at all; it's her I don't like. ❍ Did she mind(about) not getting the job? ❍ I don't mind how hot it is. ❍ They don't mind if I borrow their car occasionally. ❍ She minded very much that he had not come. (ခ) (ခြင့္ေတာင္းခံရာ၌ျဖစ္ေစ၊ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံရာ၌ ျဖစ္ေစ သံုးသည့္စကား)။ ရမလား။ Do you mind if I smoke? ❍ Do you mind me/my closing the window? ❍ I wouldn't mind (ie I would very much like) a drink. ၂။ (no passive) အေလး ထားသည္။ ဂ႐ုစိုက္သည္။ အေရးစိုက္သည္။ ‘Would you like tea or coffee?’ ‘Either—I don't mind (which). ’ လက္ဖက္ရည္လား၊ ေကာ္ဖီလား။ ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ရပါတယ္။ ❍ I mind (greatly) what people think about me. ၃။ ( Brit ) ( US watch ) (no passive) သတိထားသည္။ ဂ႐ုစိုက္သည္။ အေရးစိုက္သည္။ Mind (ie Don't fall at) that step! ❍ Mind your manners! (ie Speak/Behave in a polite way. ) ❍ Mind your head! (eg Be careful not to hit it on the low ceiling. ) ❍ Don't mind me! I won't disturb you. ❍ Mind you don't cut yourself—the knife's very sharp. ❍ Mind you come home before 11 o'clock. ❍ Mind where you walk in those muddy boots! ၄။ ( esp Brit ) ေစာင့္ၾကည့္သည္။ ၾကည့္ေပးသည္။ ဂ႐ုစိုက္သည္။ mind the baby ❍ Could you mind the phone (ie answer it if it rings) for five minutes? ❏ bear/keep sb/sth in mind [ IDM ] မွတ္ထားသည္။ We have no vacancies now, but we'll certainly bear your application in mind. ❏ be bored, frightened, pissed, etc out of one's mind [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလြန္အမင္း ၿငီးေငြ႕၊ ေၾကာက္ရြံ႕၊ စိတ္ကုန္သည္ စသည္။ ❏ be in two minds about sth/doing sth [ IDM ] ခ်ီတံုခ်တံုျဖစ္သည္။ I was in two minds about leaving London: my friends were there, but the job abroad was a good one. ❏ be of one/the same mind (about sb/sth) [ IDM ] တစ္စိတ္တည္း တစ္ဝမ္းတည္းရိွသည္။ ❏ be/go out of one's mind [ IDM ] ( infml ) ႐ူးသည္။ be out of one's mind with worry ❍ You must be out of your mind if you think I'm going to lend you my car! ❏ bring/call sb/sth to mind [ IDM ] မွတ္မိသည္။ I know her face but I can't call her name to mind. ❏ come/spring to mind [ IDM ] စဥ္းစားလို႔ရသည္။ ‘Have you any suggestions?’ ‘Nothing immediately springs to mind. ’ ❏ do you mind? [ IDM ] ( ironic ) (စိတ္အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ သေဘာမက်ေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပရာ၌ သံုးသည့္စကား)။ တစ္ဆိတ္ေလာက္။ Do you mind? I was here before you. ❏ give one's mind to sth [ IDM ] အာ႐ံုစိုက္သည္။ ❏ have half a mind to do sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) မတင္မက် ျဖစ္သည္။ ။ He had half a mind to ask for his money back. ❏ have sb/sth in mind (for sth) [ IDM ] လ်ာထားသည္။ Who do you have in mind for the job? ❏ have it in mind to do sth [ IDM ] ( fml ) ရည္ရြယ္ထား သည္။ I have it in mind to ask her opinion when I see her. ❏ have a mind of one's own [ IDM ] ကိုယ္ပိုင္ဉာဏ္ရိွသည္။ ❏ have a(good) mind to do sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) …ခ်င္စိတ္ ေပါက္သည္။ I'm so angry I've a good mind to resign. ❏ I don't mind if I do [ IDM ] ( infml ) (လက္ခံေၾကာင္း ျပရာ၌ သံုးသည့္စကား)။ ေကာင္းသားပဲ။ ရပါတယ္။ ‘Will you have a drink?’ ‘I don't mind if I do. ’ ❏ if you don't mind [ IDM ] ၁။ (ေမတၱာရပ္ခံရာ၌ ျဖစ္ေစ၊ သေဘာတူညီမႈကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳရာ၌ျဖစ္ေစ သံုးသည့္စကား)။ ေက်းဇူးျပဳ၍။ ေကာင္းပါၿပီ။ I must ask you, if you don't mind, to read that letter more closely. ❍ I'll make some coffee now, if you don't mind. ၂။ (လက္မခံႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း ယဥ္ေက်းစြာ ျငင္းပယ္သည့္ အခါ၌ သံုးသည့္စကား)။ စိတ္မရိွပါနဲ႔။ ‘Have another beer. ’ ‘I won't, if you don't mind. ’ ❏ if you don't mind me/my saying so… [ IDM ] စိတ္မရိွပါနဲ႔ေနာ္။ If you don't mind my saying so, I don't think you should spend so much time with her. ❏ in one's mind's eye [ IDM ] စိတ္ကူးထဲမွာ။ အေတြးထဲမွာ။ In my mind's eye, I can still see the house where I was born. ❏ make up one's mind [ IDM ] ဆံုးျဖတ္သည္။ Have you made your mind up where to go for your honeymoon? ❏ mind-bending adj ( infml ) စိတ္ကိုေျပာင္းလဲေစေသာ။ mind-bending drugs. ❏ mind-blowing adj ( infml ) အံ့ဖြယ္သရဲျဖစ္ေသာ။ လက္ဖ်ား ခါေလာက္ေသာ။ the mind-blowing beauty of Africa. ❏ mind-boggling adj ( infml ) မေတြးတတ္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ Distances in space are mind-boggling. ❏ minder n (esp in compounds) ကိုယ္ရံေတာ္။ သက္ေတာ္ ေစာင့္။ The boss never goes anywhere in public without one of her minders. See also CHILD-MINDER ❏ mind out [ PHRV ] ( Brit infml ) (esp imperative) ဖယ္စမ္းပါ။ ေဘးကို ေဘးကို။ Mind out (of the way)—you're blocking the passage. ❏ mind out (for sb/sth) [ PHRV ] (esp imperative) သတိထား။ Mind out for falling rocks. ❏ mind over matter [ IDM ] ကိုယ့္စိတ္ကိုယ္ ႏိုင္ျခင္း။ Keeping to a diet is a question of mind over matter. ❏ mind one's own business [ IDM ] ၁။ (esp imperative) မင္းအလုပ္ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ မင္းနဲ႔ဘာဆိုင္လို႔လဲ။ ‘What are you reading?’ ‘Mind your own business!’ ၂။ ( infml ) ကိုယ့္ကိစၥ ကိုယ္လုပ္သည္။ I was just walking down the street minding my own business. ❏ mind one's p's and q's [ IDM ] ျပဳမူေျပာဆိုရာ၌ သူတစ္ပါး မထိခိုက္ေအာင္ သတိထားသည္။ လက္လြတ္စပယ္ မေျပာ၊ မလုပ္။ ❏ mind-reader n သူတစ္ပါး၏ စိတ္ကိုသိသူ။ ဗိုက္ထဲမွာ ပုဏၰားရိွသူ။ How was I to know what he'd do? I'm not a mind-reader, am I? ❏ mind-set n ပံုစံက်ေနေသာ အျမင္။ ပံုေသ အေတြးအေခၚ။ ေတြးေခၚမႈအေလ့အထ။ ❏ mind you; mind [ IDM ] (ျဖည့္ေျပာသည့္အခါတြင္ ထည့္သံုးေလ့ရိွေသာ စကား)။ They're getting divorced, I hear—mind you, I'm not surprised. ❏ never mind [ IDM ] ၁။ ( esp Brit ) မပူပါနဲ႔။ ကိစၥမရိွပါဘူး။ အေၾကာင္းမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ေနပါေစ။ Have you lost it? Never mind, we can buy another one. ၂။ ေနေနသာသာ။ He's not even awake, never mind dressed. Compare LET ALONE (ALONE) ❏ never mind (about) (doing) sth [ IDM ] ဘာအေရးလဲ ထားလိုက္စမ္းပါ။ Never mind your car, who's going to pay for the damage you've done to my fence? ❍ Never mind about the washing-up now. ❏ never you mind [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေမးမေနပါနဲ႔ေတာ့။ Never you mind how I found out—it's true, isn't it? ❏ on one's mind [ IDM ] စိတ္ပူသည္။ My deputy has resigned, so I've got a lot on my mind just now. ကြၽန္ေတာ့္လက္ေထာက္ ထြက္သြားလို႔ ေလာေလာဆယ္ ဗ်ာမ်ားေန တယ္။ ❍ You've been on my mind all day. ❏ put sb in mind of sb/sth [ IDM ] သတိရေစသည္။ Her way of speaking put me in mind of her mother. ❏ put/set sb's mind at ease/rest [ IDM ] စိတ္ေအးေစ သည္။ ❏ put/set/turn one's mind to sth [ IDM ] စိုက္လိုက္ မတ္တတ္ လုပ္သည္။ You could be a very good writer if you set your mind to it. ❏ take one's/sb's mind off sth [ IDM ] အာ႐ံုေျပာင္းေစ သည္။ Hard work always takes your mind off domestic problems. ❏ to my mind [ IDM ] ကြၽန္ေတာ္ထင္တာ ေျပာရရင္ေတာ့။ To my mind, it's all a lot of nonsense!

Examples

1. His mind was full of the things he had seen that day.
2. I need a walk to clear my mind.
3. [in someone’s mind] : You never know what’s going on in her mind.
4. Can you say that again? My mind was on something else.
5. [keep your mind on something] : I can’t keep my mind on work when it’s so sunny outside.
6. Ellen’s husband has a very suspicious mind.
7. A brilliant/keen mind
8. Her youngest child has a very enquiring mind (=is very interested in things and always asking questions).
9. My grandmother’s mind is failing.
10. He is one of the finest minds in physics today.