Let-down

Definition

let 1 / let / v ( -tt -; pt, pp let ) ၁။ (က) ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ … ပါေစ။ Let them splash around in the pool for a while. ❍ Don’t let your child play with matches. (ခ) ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ They won’t let him leave the country. ❍ She wanted to lend me some money but I wouldn’t let her (do it). ❍ ALLOW ၂။ (ဝင္၊ ထြက္)ခြင့္ေပးသည္။ လႊတ္ေပးသည္။ let sb into the house ❍ I’ll give you a key so that you can let yourself in. ❍ You’ve let all the air out of the tyres. မင္းဘီးေတြထဲက ေလထုတ္ထားတယ္။ ❍ Please let me past. ❍ The dog had been let out. ❍ The roof lets water through. ဒီေခါင္မိုးမလံုဘူး။ ၃။ (က) … ၾကရေအာင္။ … ၾကစို႔။ Let’s go to the beach. ❍ Let’s not tell Mum for the moment. ❍ ( Brit ) Don’t let’s tell Mum. ❍ I don’t think we’ll succeed but let’s try anyway. ❍ ‘Shall we call in on Pete on the way?’ ‘Yes, let’s. ’ (ခ) (ယဥ္ေက်း ဖြယ္ရာ အသံုးအႏႈန္း) … ပါရေစ။ …ပါစို႔။ Let us get those boxes down for you. ❍ Here, let me do it. ❍ Let us begin with a few facts. ❍ Let me give you an example. ❍ Let us not forget all the other people who helped. (ဂ) …ပါေစ။ Let them attack: they won’t know what’s hit them! (ဃ) …ပါေစ။ Let the boy speak for himself. ❍ Let her carry her own bag. (င) … ပါေစ။ Let line AB be equal to line CD. ၄။ ~ sth (out) (to sb) အငွားခ်သည္။ ငွားသည္။ I let the spare room (to a lodger). ❍ They decided to let out the smaller flats at low rents. ❏ let sb down [ PHRV ] (ကတိေပး) အားကိုးမရ ျဖစ္သည္။ စိတ္မခ်ရ။ မယံုစားရ၍ စိတ္ပ်က္သည္။ I’m afraid she let us down badly. ❍ This machine won’t let you down. ❍ He trudged home feeling lonely and let down. See also LET-DOWN ❏ let sth down [ PHRV ] ၁။ ခ်ေပးသည္။ We let the bucket down by a rope. ၂။ ျဖန္႔ခ်သည္။ ေျဖခ်သည္။ This skirt needs letting down. ၃။ ( Brit ) ေလထုတ္ပစ္သည္။ Some kids had let my tyres down. ❏ let-down n စိတ္ပ်က္ရျခင္း။ မွန္းခ်က္ႏွင့္ ႏွမ္းထြက္မကိုက္ ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ The party was a real let-down. ❏ let oneself go [ IDM ] ၁။ စိတ္လြတ္လက္လြတ္ ေနသည္။ Come on, enjoy yourself, let yourself go! ၂။ ျဖစ္ကတတ္ဆန္းေနသည္။ He has let himself go since he lost his job. ❏ let sb/sth go ; let go of sb/sth [ IDM ] ၁။ လႊတ္လိုက္သည္။ let the rope go/let go of the rope ❍ Let (me) go. You’re hurting me! ၂။ လႊတ္လိုက္သည္။ Will they let the hostages go? ❏ let sb/oneself in for sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (အက်ဳိးလိုလို႔ ေညာင္ေရေလာင္းခါမွ) ပတ္ထမ္းႏွင့္ေတြ႕သည္။ I volunteered to help, and then I thought ‘Oh no, what have I let myself in for!’ ❏ let sb in on/into sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ကိစၥ စသည္) သိခြင့္ေပးသည္။ Are you going to let them in on your plans? ❏ let sth into sth [ PHRV ] ျမႇဳပ္ထားသည္။ a window let into a wall. ❏ let it go (at that) [ IDM ] …ရိွပါေစေတာ့။ ထားလိုက္ ပါေတာ့။ I don’t entirely agree but I’ll let it go at that. ❍ I thought she was hinting at something but I let it go. ❏ let me see/think [ IDM ] စဥ္းစားလိုက္ဦးမယ္။ ၾကည့္ဦး မယ္။ Now let me see—where did he say he lived? ❏ let sb off (with sth) [ PHRV ] သက္ညႇာလိုက္သည္။ They let us off lightly. ❍ She was let off with a fine instead of being sent to prison. ❏ let sb off sth [ PHRV ] (ေက်ာင္း)လႊတ္လိုက္သည္။ We’ve been let off (school) today because our teacher is sick. ❏ let sth off [ PHRV ] ပစ္ေဖာက္သည္။ The boys were letting off fireworks. ❏ let on (about sth / that…) (to sb) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေပါက္ၾကားေစသည္။ I’m getting married next week, but please don’t let on (to anyone), will you? ❏ let sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ထေအာ္သည္။ let out a scream of terror / a gasp of delight. ၂။ (အက်ႌ၊ ေဘာင္းဘီစသည္) ေျဖခ်သည္။ He’s getting so fat that his trousers have to be let out around the waist. ❏ let-out n ( Brit ) ကယ္ေပါက္။ ထြက္ေပါက္။ a convenient let-out for the Minister of Education ❍ a let-out clause in the contract. ❏ let up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) စဲသည္။ ေလ်ာ့သည္။ Will the rain ever let up? ❍ We mustn’t let up, even though we’re winning. See also LET-UP ❏ let-up n အားေပ်ာ့သြားျခင္း။ ဆုတ္ယုတ္ေလ်ာ့ပါးျခင္း။ There is no sign yet of a let-up in the recession. ❏ let us say [ IDM ] ဆိုပါစို႔။ I can let you have it for, well, let’s say £ 100. ❏ to let [ IDM ] ( Brit ) ငွားရန္။ Rooms to let (eg on a sign outside a house). let 2 / let / n ( Brit ) ငွားရမ္းျခင္း။ Cottage available for long or short let. let 3 / let / n (တင္းနစ္) စေပးေဘာလံုးသည္ တျခားဘက္သို႔ ေနရာမွန္က်ေသာ္လည္း ၾကားကာပိုက္ထိပ္ကို ထိသြားလွ်င္ စေပး ေဘာလံုး ေနာက္တစ္ႀကိမ္ ျပန္႐ိုက္ရျခင္း။ ❏ without let or hindrance [ IDM ] ( fml or law ) အပိတ္အပင္ အတားဆီးမရိွ။ A passport should enable one to travel freely, without let or hindrance. -let suff ၁။ (with ns forming ns ) ေသးေသာ။ ငယ္ေသာ။ … ကေလး။ booklet ❍ piglet. ၂။ … ေပါက္စ။ … ကေလး။ starlet.

Examples

1. [let someone/something do something] : I stepped back and let him pass.
2. [let someone/something do something] : Alice’s mum won’t let her come with us.
3. Let your imagination run wild.
4. [let something etc] : Open the windows and let some fresh air into the room.
5. There are holes between the stones that let the wind through.
6. [let someone know] : Let us know what time you want us to be there.
7. [let yourself] : She lets herself be talked into all kinds of schemes.
8. Here
9. let me help you.
10. The landlord can let at an agreed market rent.
11. [let something to someone] : He’s let his cottage to some people from London.
12. Let the games begin!
13. Let her do all the work for a change!
14. Let x = 5.
15. Let ABC be a triangle.