In the course of time

Definition

course /kↄ:s/ n ၁။ [C usu sing ] လမ္းေၾကာင္း။ The plane was on/off course (ie going/ not going in the intended direction). ❍ The ship's course was due north. ❍ The captain set a course for (ie directed the ship/ plane towards) New York. ❍ trace the course of the Charles River. ၂။ [C usu sing ] (က) ေရွး႐ႈရာ။ ဦးတည့္ရာ။ His arguments suddenly changed course and he began to attack the government. ❍ The company is on course to achieve its projected turnover for the year. See also COLLISION COURSE (ခ) (also course of action ) [C] ေဆာင္ရြက္ပံုနည္းလမ္း။ What course of action would you recommend? ❍ There are various courses open to us. ❍ The wisest course would be to ignore it. ၃။ [sing] ~ of sth (ျဖစ္)စဥ္။ In the course of (ie during) my long life I've seen many changes. ❍ the course of history ❍ I didn't sleep once during the entire course of the journey. ၄။ [C] ~ (in/on sth) ( education ) (ဘာသာရပ္ ဆိုင္ရာ)သင္တန္း၊ သင္႐ိုး။ a French/ a chemistry/ an art course ❍ take /do a two-year postgraduate course in accountancy ❍ go on an intensive training course ❍ The college runs/ offers specialist language course. See also CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, FOUNDATION COURSE, REFRESHER COURSE, SANDWICH COURSE ၅။ [C] ~ (of sth) ( medical ) (ကုသမႈဆိုင္ရာ) ေဆးပတ္။ prescribe a course of antibiotics/ injections/ X-ray treatment. ၆။ [C] တစ္မည္ၿပီးတစ္မည္ တည္ခင္းသည့္ စားပြဲတြင္ တစ္မည္မည္။ a five-course dinner ❍ The main course was a vegetable stew. ၇။ [C] (က) ေဂါက္ကြင္း။ He set a new course record. (ခ) (ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ရာ)တာ။ a five- mile rowing course. See also ASSAULT COURSE, RACECOURSE ၈။ [C] (နံရံအုတ္ေက်ာက္)အထပ္လႊာ။ damp-proof course. v ( esp rhet ) ေတြေတြစီးဆင္းသည္။ စီးက်သည္။ ျဖာက်သည္။ Tears coursed down her cheeks. ❏ course of action n ( pl courses of action ) = Course ၂ (ခ) ❏ course-work n [U] သင္တန္းတစ္ခုအတြင္း ေက်ာင္းသား တစ္ဦး၏ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္။ Course-work accounts for 40% of the total marks. ❏ in course of sth [ IDM ] ( fml ) …ဆဲ။ a house in course of construction (ie being built). ❏ in the course of time [ IDM ] သူ႕အခ်ိန္တန္ေတာ့။ Be patient. I'm sure you will be promoted in the course of time. ❏ in the ordinary, normal, etc course of events, things, etc [ IDM ] ပံုမွန္အားျဖင့္။ In the ordinary course of events, I visit her once a week. ❏ of course [ IDM ] ၁။ (အေလးအနက္ျပဳ ေျဖၾကားရာတြင္ yes, no ကဲ့သို႔ (သို႔) ၎တို႔အစား အသံုးျပဳေသာ စကား)။ ‘Do you like my mother?’ ‘Of course I do. ’ ❍ ‘Did she go back to him?’ ‘No, of course not!’. ၂။ (ရပါတယ္၊ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ လုပ္ပါ စသည္ျဖင့္ yes ကဲ့သို႔ အခြင့္ျပဳေၾကာင္းအနက္ ျဖင့္ သံုးေသာ အယဥ္အေက်းစကား)။ ‘May I try one of your cakes?’ ‘Of course—help yourself. ’ ❍ ‘He will be remembered as a great President’. ‘Of course, but not with affection’. ၃။ (နားလည္လက္ခံေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပရာတြင္ သံုးေသာစကား)။ That was 40 years ago, but of course you wouldn't remember it. ❏ run/ take its course [ IDM ] သူ႕ဘာသာသူ ျဖစ္ေနသည္၊ ျဖစ္သြားသည္။ We can't cure the disease; it must run its course. ❍ The decision cannot be reversed; the law must take its course (ie the punishment must be carried out).

Examples

1. A drama/secretarial/Spanish course
2. [course in] : An introductory course in economics
3. [do/take a course] : You could do a language course abroad.
4. [run/offer a course] : The school runs courses for beginners.
5. [be on a course] : She’s on a time management course this week.
6. The captain had to change course quickly.
7. [on/off course] : The oil tanker veered off course and hit a rock.
8. Several villages along the course of the river were flooded.
9. [course of action] : What course of action do you recommend?
10. [the best/safest etc course is to do something] : The safest course is to avoid alcohol.
11. [course of events] : In the normal course of events
12. he would have left and thought no more about it.
13. [the course of history] : A speech that changed the course of history
14. [first/main course] : I had prawns
15. followed by steak for my main course.
16. [three-course/four-course etc meal] : They do a two-course lunch for £4.99.
17. [course of] : The treatment involves a course of steroid injections.
18. The mountains are the most difficult part of the course.
19. An 18-hole course