Life-sized

Definition

life / laÇf / n ( pl lives /laÇvz / ) ၁။ [U] အသက္။ ဇီဝ။ the origins of life on earth ❍ The body showed no signs of life. ၂။ [U] သက္ရိွအရာ၊ ေလာက။ animal and plant life ❍ Is there life on Mars? ၃။ [C] အသက္ဆံုး႐ံႈးမႈ။ အေသအေပ်ာက္။ ေသေရးရွင္ေရး။ The riot was brought under control without loss of life (ie without anyone being killed). ❍ Getting food to the refugees is now a matter of life and death. ၄။ [U] ဘဝ။ ေလာက။ He does not want much from life. ❍ What do you expect? That’s life (ie These things happen and must be expected and accepted)! ၅။ [C] အသက္။ Doctors worked through the night to save the life of the injured man. ❍ Three lives were lost (ie Three people died) in the accident. ၆။ (က) [C] သက္တမ္း။ She lived her whole (adult) life in the country. (ခ) [C] သက္တမ္း။ I’ve lived here all my life. ၇။ [U] (က) တစ္သက္တာ။ a friend/job/membership for life. (ခ) ( infml ) တစ္သက္တစ္ကြၽန္း အျပစ္ဒဏ္။ be given/get/ do life. See also LIFE SENTENCE ၈။ [U] (က) ေလာက။ ဘဝ။ As a taxi driver you really see (ie experience) life. (ခ) လႈပ္ရွားမႈ။ There are few signs of life here in the evenings. ၉။ [U] တက္ႂကြမႈ။ စိတ္ဝင္စားမႈ။ Children are always so full of life. ❍ The show’s very flat — put some more life into it. ၁၀။ [U, C] ဘဝ။ one’s private/public/family life ❍ city/village life ❍ have an easy/ a hard life ❍ emigrate and start a new life in America ❍ Her work is her life (ie the most important thing she does). ❍ This is the life (for me) (ie the best way to live)! ၁၁။ [C] အတၳဳပၸတၱိ။ write a life of Tolstoy. ၁၂။ [U] သက္ရိွ၊ ပကတိ (အရာဝတၳဳ၊ ျမင္ကြင္း)။ a portrait drawn/taken from life ❍ a life class (ie one in which art students draw, etc from living models). ၁၃။ [C] သက္တမ္း။ throughout the life of the present government ❍ a long-life battery. ၁၄။ [C] အလွည့္။ You’ve had three lives— you’ve got one left. ❏ bring sb/sth to life [ IDM ] အသက္ဝင္လာေစသည္။ The arrival of the band brought the party to life. ❍ Her books succeed in bringing historical characters to life. ❏ come to life [ IDM ] ၁။ အသက္ဝင္လာသည္။ စိတ္ဝင္စားဖြယ္ ေကာင္းလာသည္။ When the discussion turned to literature, she suddenly came to life. ❍ The café only comes to life at night. ၂။ သက္ဝင္လႈပ္ရွားလာသည္။ In the ballet all the toys come to life. ❏ for dear life/for one’s life [ IDM ] အသက္ႏွင့္ ခႏၶာ အိုးစားမကြဲေအာင္။ holding on for dear life ❍ Run for your life! ❏ for the life of one [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဘယ္လိုမွ်။ I cannot for the life of me remember her name. ❏ frighten/scare the life out of sb [ IDM ] လိပ္ျပာ စဥ္သြားေအာင္ လွန္႔သည္။ ❏ lay down one’s life (for sb/sth) [ IDM ] ( rhet ) အသက္ေပးသည္။ He laid down his life for the cause of freedom. ❏ life-and-death (also life-or-death ) adj ေသေရး ရွင္ေရး။ drought victims engaged in a life-and-death struggle to survive. ❏ life and limb [ IDM ] အသက္အႏၲရာယ္။ risk life and limb to rescue others. ❏ the life and soul of sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပြဲစည္ေစေသာ သူ။ ❏ life cycle n ( biology ) ဇီဝစက္။ သက္ရိွမ်ား ဘဝတစ္ေလွ်ာက္ အဆင့္ဆင့္ျဖစ္စဥ္။ the life cycle of the butterfly. ❏ life expectancy n [U] (က) (ပ်မ္းမွ်) သက္တမ္း။ Women have a longer life expectancy than men. (ခ) သက္တမ္း။ the life expectancy of the average car/the present government. ❏ life-giving adj အသက္ဆက္ေသာ။ life-giving energy/food. ❏ life-history n = LIFE STORY ❏ life imprisonment n [U] တစ္သက္တာ ေထာင္ဒဏ္။ တစ္သက္တစ္ကြၽန္းျပစ္ဒဏ္။ be sentenced to life imprisonment. ❏ life insurance n [U] အသက္အာမခံ။ ❏ life -jacket n အသက္ကယ္အက်ႌ။ ❍ LIFEBELT ❏ lifeless adj ၁။ အသက္မပါေသာ။ a lifeless performance. ၂။ ေသေနေသာ။ အသက္ကင္းမဲ့ ေသာ။ He knelt beside her lifeless body. ၃။ သက္မဲ့ျဖစ္ေသာ။ lifeless stones ❍ a lifeless planet. ❏ life peer n ( Brit ) မိမိတစ္သက္တာမွ်သာ ရပိုင္ခြင့္ ရိွေသာ မႉးမတ္ရာထူး။ ❏ life preserver n ( US ) = LIFEBELT ❏ lifer / 'laÇfǝ(r) / n ( sl ) တစ္သက္တစ္ကြၽန္း ျပစ္ဒဏ္ခံရသူ။ ❏ life-saver n အသက္။ The radio was a life-saver during my illness—I couldn’t have done without it. ❏ life sciences n [pl] သက္ရိွသတၱဝါ၊ အပင္မ်ား ေလ့လာေသာ ဇီဝေဗဒ၊ ႐ုကၡေဗဒစသည့္ ပညာရပ္မ်ား။ Biology and botany are life sciences. ❏ life sentence n ေထာင္ဒဏ္တစ္သက္။ တစ္သက္ တစ္ကြၽန္းျပစ္ဒဏ္။ serve a life sentence. ❏ life size n [U] ပကတိအရြယ္။ photographs enlarged to life size. ❏ life-size (also life-sized ) adj ပကတိအရြယ္ရိွေသာ။ a life-size(d) model of a horse. ❏ life-span n သက္တမ္း။ insects with a life-span of only a few hours. ❏ life story (also life history ) n အတၳဳပၸတၱိ။ She told me her life story. ❏ life-support adj အသက္ဆက္ေပးေသာ။ a patient on a life-support machine/system. ❏ life-threatening adj အသက္အႏၲရာယ္ျပဳႏိုင္ေသာ။ ❏ life-work (also life’s-work ) n (usu sing ) မိမိတစ္ဘဝလံုး ျမႇဳပ္ႏွံထားေသာလုပ္ငန္း။ This hospital has been my life’s-work. ❏ not on your life! [ IDM ] ( infml ) မျဖစ္ႏိုင္တာ။ ❏ take one’s (own) life [ IDM ] မိမိကိုယ္မိမိ သတ္ေသသည္။ ❏ take one’s life in one’s hands [ IDM ] အသက္စြန္႔ရသည္။ အသက္ကိုဖက္ႏွင့္ထုပ္ရသည္။ You take your life in your hands simply crossing the road these days! ❏ take sb’s life [ IDM ] သတ္သည္။ ❏ to the life [ IDM ] တေထရာတည္း။ In the screen biography he plays Charlie Chaplin to the life.

Examples

1. She devoted her life to helping others.
2. He had a long and happy life.
3. [spend your life] : Don’t spend your whole life worrying about money.
4. [in (all) your life] : I have never been so disappointed in my life.
5. [all your life] : She’s lived in California all her life.
6. [early life] : He spent his early life in Malaysia.
7. [adult life] : He lived most of his adult life in prison.
8. [in later life] : It was in later life that he wrote some of his best poems.
9. [late in life] : She got married late in life.
10. [for life] : The accident left her scarred for life.
11. His life revolves around his children.
12. It was an event that would change his life forever.
13. [lead a happy/normal/interesting etc life] : I just want to be able to lead a normal life.
14. [a hard life] : She looks like someone who’s had a very hard life.
15. I had no idea what life with a baby would be like.
16. [city/village/prison/university etc life] : Escape from the bustle and noise of city life for a while.
17. [the life of someone] : The life of a film star is not always a glamorous one.
18. [married life] : How’s married life suiting you?
19. He’s a person who really loves life.
20. His mother has a great enthusiasm for life.
21. [see life] : You really see life in my job.
22. He believed his life was in danger.
23. [claim lives] : The disease is still claiming thousands of lives every year.
24. [risk your life] : They risk their lives to protect the people they love.
25. [put your/someone’s life at risk] : They are putting lives at risk with their irresponsible behaviour.
26. We are now beginning to believe that there may be life on other planets.
27. [animal/plant/insect/bird life] : The great variety of bird life in the area
28. [life of] : During the life of this government
29. unemployment has increased by 5%.
30. [life of] : The average life of a television is about ten years.
31. There’s not much life in this village.
32. The early stories are full of life.
33. [lose a life] : When you’ve lost three lives
34. you’re out.
35. [get life] : You’d expect him to get life for such a serious crime.