Keen

Definition

keen 1 / ki:n / adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ ( Brit infml ) ~ on sb/sth (က) စိတ္ဝင္စား ေသာ။ He seems very keen on my sister. (ခ) အလြန္ႏွစ္သက္ေသာ။ keen on(playing) tennis. ၂။ ( esp Brit ) ~ (to do sth/that …) ; ~ (on sth) (က) ဝါသနာႀကီးေသာ။ a keen swimmer. (ခ) စိတ္အားထက္သန္ ေသာ။ keen to develop new trade links. (ဂ) စိတ္အားတက္ႂကြေနေသာ။ စိတ္ပါေသာ။ အလို က်ေသာ။ She's keen that we should go with her to Spain. ❍ Her parents weren't keen on her travelling alone. ၃။ (စိတ္ဓာတ္၊ ခံစားမႈ စသည္) တက္ႂကြေသာ၊ ျပင္းျပေသာ။ a keen interest/sense of loss. ၄။ (အာ႐ံုခံစားမႈ) စူ ရွးထက္ျမက္ေသာ။ keen eyesight ❍ Her eyesight is as keen as ever. ❍ Dogs have a keen sense of smell. ၅။ (အသိဉာဏ္) လ်င္ျမန္ ထက္ျမက္ေသာ။ တခၤဏုပၸတၱိ (ဉာဏ္)။ a keen mind/intellect. ၆။ အသြားထက္ေသာ။ ခြၽန္ျမေသာ။ a keen blade. ၇။ ခ်မ္းစိမ့္ ေအးျမလြန္းေသာ (ေလ)။ a keen wind/ winter. ၈။ ( Brit ) အၿပိဳင္ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ထားေသာ (ေဈးႏႈန္း)။ ❏ ( as ) keen as mustard [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) အလြန္ တက္ႂကြေသာ။ ❏ keenly adv အထူးတလည္။ ျပင္းျပင္းျပျပ။ be keenly aware of sth. ❏ keenness n [U] (အသြား) ထက္ျမက္ျခင္း။ (စိတ္ဆႏၵ) ျပင္းျပျခင္း။ keen 2 / ki:n / v ရင္ဘတ္စည္တီး ေအာ္ျမည္ငိုေႂကြးသည္။ keening over her murdered son.

Examples

1. [be keen to do something] : The government is keen to avoid further conflict with the unions.
2. [very/particularly keen] : We are very keen to encourage more local employers to work with us.
3. [be keen on doing something] : The captain wasn’t keen on having him in the team.
4. [be keen for someone to do something] : Of course I’m keen for him to be successful.
5. Many of our players are very young and keen.
6. The students in this class are all very keen.
7. A keen cyclist/gardener/amateur historian
8. His business training was combined with a keen sense of duty.
9. A keen awareness of the importance of IT to industry
10. [a keen interest in something] : Mr Lindsay always took a keen interest in his pupils’ achievements.
11. Vultures are known for their extremely keen eyesight.
12. I have a very keen sense of smell.
13. A keen mind/brain/intellect