Like

Definition

like 1 / laÇk / v ၁။ (က) ႀကိဳက္သည္။ ႏွစ္သက္သည္။ ေက်နပ္သည္။ ႏွစ္ၿခိဳက္သည္။ သေဘာက်သည္။ Do you like fish? ❍ She likes him (ie is fond of him) but doesn’t love him. ❍ I don’t like the way he looks at me. ❍ You’ve got to go to school, whether you like it or not. ❍ She’s never liked swimming. ❍ I didn’t like him/his taking all the credit. (ခ) …လိုသည္။ ႀကိဳက္သည္။ ႏွစ္သက္သည္။ On Sundays I like to sleep late. ❍ He likes his guests to be punctual. ❍ I like my coffee strong. ၂။ …လိုသည္။ I didn’t like (ie felt RELUCTANT) to disturb you. ❍ He doesn’t like asking for help. ၃။ …လိုသည္။ …ခ်င္သည္။ Would you like something to eat? ❍ I’d like to think it over before deciding. ❍ How can they afford it? That’s what I’d like to know. ❍ We would like you to come and visit us. ❍ WANT 1 ၄။ ႀကိဳက္သည္။ How would you like it if such a thing happened to you? ❏ if you like [ IDM ] ၁။ (လိုက္ေလ်ာေၾကာင္းျပရန္ / သေဘာထားေမးရန္ ယဥ္ေက်းဖြယ္ရာသံုးေသာ စကား)။ သေဘာပဲ (သို႔) ဟုတ္လား။ ‘Shall we stop now?’ ‘If you like. ’ ❍ If you like, we could go out this evening. ၂။ (ေျပာရလွ်င္ ဟူေသာ သေဘာျဖင့္ သံုးေသာစကား)။ ဆိုပါေတာ့။ ဆိုပါစို႔။ This is a milestone, if you like, in the study of human genes. ❏ l like that! [ IDM ] ( ironic ) (မဟုတ္မမွန္ အေျပာခံရ၍ မေက်နပ္သံျဖင့္ ေငါ့ေျပာသည့္စကား)။ ဟုတ္၊ ဟုတ္ေသးေတာ့။ သေဘာက်တယ္ကြာ။ ‘She called you a cheat. ’ ‘Well I like that!’ ❏ likeable (also likable ) / 'laÇkǝbl / adj ႏွစ္လို႔ဖြယ္ရာ ေကာင္းေသာ။ ခင္မင္စရာေကာင္းေသာ။ He’s likeable enough, but a bit boring. ❏ like the look/sound of sb/sth [ IDM ] ႀကိဳက္သည္ (အႀကံေပးသည့္အေနျဖင့္ေျပာသည့္စကား)။ I don’t like the sound of that cough — shouldn’t you see the doctor about it? ဒီေခ်ာင္းသံ တယ္ မႀကိဳက္ခ်င္ဘူး၊ ဆရာဝန္ သြား မျပဘူးလား။ ❏ likes n [pl] အႀကိဳက္။ He has so many likes and dislikes that it’s impossible to please him. like 2 / laÇk / prep ၁။ (က) တူ(သည္)။ ဆင္(သည္)။ She’s wearing a hat like mine. ❍ a house built like an Arab palace ❍ He’s nothing (ie not at all) like his father (ie in character or looks). ❍ That sounds like (ie I think I can hear) the postman. (ခ) (ဘယ္)လို(လဲ)။ What’s it like studying at a Spanish university? ❍ This new girlfriend of his — what’s she like? ၂။ …ေနက်။ It’s just like her to tell everyone about it. ၃။ …လို(ပဲ)။ …နည္းတူ။ You’re behaving like children. ❍ run like the wind (ie very fast) ❍ stories which I, like everybody else, have read in the press ❍ Do it like this. ❍ Don’t look at me like that. ❍ AS ၄။ …လို။ I’m fond of modern playwrights like Pinter and Ayckbourn. conj ( infml ) ၁။ …လို။ …နည္းတူ။ No one sings the blues like she did. ❍ It didn’t turn out like I intended. ၂။ ( esp US ) … သလို။ …က်ေနတာ (ပဲ)။ She acts like she owns the place. adj ဆင္ေသာ။ တူေသာ။ They’re not twins, but they’re very like. ❍ a chance to meet people of like mind ❍ She responded in like manner. adv (အထူးအဓိပၸာယ္မရိွ အပိုထည့္ေျပာေလ့ရိွေသာ စကား)။ လိုလိုပဲ။ အဲလိုေပါ့။ It was sort of creepy, like. ❍ He just, like, refused to talk to me. n [sing] အလားတူ။ …မ်ဳိး။ jazz, rock and the like (ie similar types of music) ❍ a man whose like we shall not see again ❍ You’re not comparing like with like. ❏ (as) like as not ; like enough ; most/very like [ IDM ] ( dated ) ျဖစ္ေကာင္းျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ It’ll rain this afternoon, as like as not. ❏ like-minded adj စိတ္တူသေဘာတူ။ The society offers an ideal opportunity for like-minded people to get together. ❏ the likes of sb/sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) (တို႔၊ သူ) လိုလူ။ He’s a real snob — he’d never speak to the likes of me. ❏ more like (it) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဒီလိုမွေပါ့။ The roads are less crowded now — this is more like it! ❏ something like (it) [ IDM ] ဒါမ်ဳိးေျပာတာေပါ့။ That’s something like it, John. -like suff (used widely with ns to form adjs ) …လို။ …ပီပီ။ childlike ❍ ladylike ❍ shell-like ❍ snakelike.

Examples

1. It was a small animal like a rat.
2. I think she was like me
3. she didn’t really want to get involved.
4. No one could play the trumpet like he did.
5. [just like] : I went and bought myself a new pen just like yours.
6. That morning began just like any other.
7. [very like] : Bruce is very like you in a lot of ways.
8. [seem/look/sound/smell/taste/feel like] : Doesn’t he look like Mark?
9. The cloth felt like silk against her skin.
10. [like new] : Once it’s washed and ironed it’ll be like new.
11. [anything like] : Was the office where you used to work anything like this one?
12. [nothing like] : I have to admit India was nothing like what I was expecting.
13. The news spread like wildfire.
14. He smokes like a chimney.
15. She was crying like a baby.
16. Why don’t you play with the other children
17. like you used to?
18. I went to see my mother
19. like I always do on Tuesdays.
20. Other people’s children
21. like other people’s dogs
22. have never interested me.
23. It eats small animals like birds and mice.
24. An intelligent woman like you shouldn’t have been fooled so easily.
25. [it’s just like someone] : He didn’t show up again. That’s just like him.
26. [it’s not like someone to do something] : It’s not like him to lie.
27. He sounded like he’d only just woken up.
28. Sam played with the children like he was one of them.
29. It looks like he has his hair trimmed about three times a week.
30. He hasn’t phoned me in
31. like
32. three weeks.
33. They were
34. so rude!
35. I was wondering if I could
36. borrow the car this evening.
37. And I’m like
38. give me a chance
39. Simon.
40. It was
41. the best meal I’d ever had.