One's reason

Definition

reason /'ri:zn/ n ၁။ [U, C] ~ (for sth/doing sth); ~ (to do sth); အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္။ အေၾကာင္း။ What are your reasons for leaving/the reasons for your leaving the job? ❍ Actually, I did it for entirely the opposite reason. ❍ The reason why I'm late is that/because I missed the bus. ❍ We aren't going, for the simple reason that we can't afford it. ❍ We have (good/no) reason to believe that he is lying. ❍ For one/some reason or another I never actually went to see him. ❍ All the more reason for avoiding/to avoid him ❍ That is not an adequate/a sufficient reason for sacking him. ❍ ( fml ) He was excused by reason of (ie because of) his age. ❍ She complained, with reason (ie rightly), that she had been underpaid. ၂။ [U] ဆင္ျခင္တံုတရား။ အသိ ဥာဏ္။ the conflict between faith and reason. ၃။ one's reason [sing] ဆင္ျခင္ႏိုင္စြမ္း။ lose one's reason (ie go mad). ၄။ [U] ယုတၱိ။ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခ။ အက်ဳိးသင့္အေၾကာင္းသင့္ျဖစ္ ျခင္း။ အက်ဳိးသင့္အေၾကာင္းသင့္ ေျပာျခင္း။ see/listen to/hear/be open to (ie be prepared to accept) reason ❍ There's a good deal of reason in what you say. ❍ I'll do anything within reason to earn a living. ❍ I tried to persuade her but she was beyond (all) reason. v (က) အက်ဳိးသင့္အေၾကာင္းသင့္ စဥ္းစားသည္။ ဆင္ျခင္ သည္။ man's ability to reason. (ခ) (no passive) ေတြးဆ သည္။ ႏိႈင္းခ်င့္သည္။ စဥ္းစားသည္။ ဆင္ျခင္သည္။ He reasoned that if we started at 6 am we would be there by midday. ❍ Wouldn't that extra £500, he reasoned, solve all his problems? ❏ for reasons/some reason best known to oneself [ IDM ] ( esp joc ) ဘယ္လိုေရႊဉာဏ္ေတာ္ စူးေရာက္သလဲ မသိဘူး။ For reasons best known to himself, he drinks tea from a beer glass. ❏ it/that stands to reason [ IDM ] အထူး စဥ္းစားရန္ မလိုပါ။ လူတိုင္းနားလည္ပါတယ္။ It stands to reason that nobody will work without pay. ❏ reasoned adj အက်ဳိးသင့္အေၾကာင္းသင့္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ယုတၱိ ရိွေသာ။ a reasoned approach to the problem ❍ She put a (well-) reasoned case for increasing the fees. ❏ reasoning n [u] (က) ေတြးေခၚေျမာ္ျမင္မႈ။ powers of reasoning. (ခ) အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္။ Your reasoning on this point is faulty. ❏ reason sth out [ PHRV ] စဥ္းစားအေျဖရွာသည္။ အေၾကာင္း ရွာသည္။ The police are still trying to reason out how the thief got in. ❏ reason with sb [ PHRV ] အက်ဳိးသင့္ အေၾကာင္းသင့္ေျပာ သည္။ I reasoned with him for hours about the danger, but he wouldn't change his mind. ❍ There's no reasoning with that woman (ie She won't listen to arguments).

Examples

1. [reason for] : The police asked her the reason for her visit.
2. [reason for doing something] : Could you explain your reasons for choosing this particular course?
3. [reason why] : The reason why so many people caught the disease is still not clear.
4. [reason (that)] : The reason these cars are so expensive is that they are largely built by hand.
5. [for a reason] : The woman cannot be named for legal reasons.
6. [give a reason] : Our application was rejected
7. but the council gave no reason for its decision.
8. [for the simple/obvious/good reason (that)] : We can’t take you all
9. for the simple reason that there isn’t enough room in the car.
10. [reason for] : With plenty of orders coming in
11. there is reason for optimism about the company’s future.
12. [reason to do something] : Is there any reason to believe that she isn’t telling the truth?
13. [there is every reason to do something] : There was every reason to expect that he would agree.
14. [with reason/not without reason] : He has refused to pay
15. not without reason.
16. [have no reason to do something] : She has no reason to shout at you.
17. [see no reason/not see any reason] : I can’t see any reason for refusing their invitation.
18. She had reason on her side.
19. [listen to/see reason] : He finally saw reason and gave me the gun.
20. [reason prevails] : Fortunately
21. reason prevailed and she did not marry him.
22. [within reason] : Let your children have their freedom
23. within reason.
24. His assessment of the situation is based on sheer emotion
25. not reason.