Lesson

Definition

lesson / 'lesn / n ၁။ စာသင္ခ်ိန္။ သင္တန္းခ်ိန္။ သင္တန္း။ a history / English/ physics lesson ❍ She gives piano lessons. ❍ I’m having flying / riding lessons. ❍ The lesson lasted an hour. ၂။ သင္ခန္းစာ။ The first lesson in driving is how to start the car. ❍ ( fig ) Other EU members can teach us a lesson or two on industrial policy. ၃။ ~ (to sb) အတုယူဖြယ္။ နမူနာ။ သင္ခန္းစာ။ a valuable/ salutory lesson ❍ Let this be a lesson to you never to play with matches! ❍ We are still absorbing the painful / harsh lessons of this disaster. ❍ It was a lesson not lost on (ie learned well by) the team manager. ၄။ ( religion ) ခရစ္ယာန္ တရားၾကားနာႏိုင္ရန္ ဖတ္ျပေသာ စာပိုဒ္။ The first lesson is taken from St John’s Gospel.

Examples

1. A French/English/maths/history lesson
2. I’d like to talk to you at the end of the lesson.
3. [skip/miss a lesson] : Jo’s father found out that she’d been skipping lessons.
4. A driving/dancing/swimming lesson
5. One of the most important lessons in life is the value of friendship.
6. The lessons of war/history/experience
7. [lesson in] : I needed a lesson in humility and I got it.
8. The second goal was a lesson in how not to defend a free kick.
9. [learn a lesson] : I hope you’ve learnt a lesson from this
10. young man!
11. [learn your lesson] : People get into debt at such a young age that they have learnt their lesson by the time they’re 23.
12. [teach someone a lesson] : That girl needs teaching a lesson.
13. [let that be a lesson to you] : Let that be a lesson to you not to play with matches!
14. Lesson 5 is all about the subjunctive.
15. Reverend Thomas stood up to read the lesson.