Reformatories

Definition

reflect /r'flekt/ v ၁။ ~ sb/ sth (in sth) (esp passive) ပံုရိပ္ထင္သည္။ See how beautifully the river reflects the trees. ❍ She could see herself reflected in his eyes. ❍ He looked at his face reflected in the mirror. ၂။ ေရာင္ျပန္ဟပ္သည္။ ဟပ္သည္။ အလင္းျပန္သည္။ The white houses reflect the glare of the sun. ❍ We need a building material which absorbs sound, and doesn't reflect it. ၃။ ေရာင္ျပန္ဟပ္သည္။ ထင္ဟပ္သည္။ The financial markets today were simply reflecting the strength of the German economy. ❍ Certain laws need changing to reflect changing attitudes in society. ❍ Her interest in gardening is reflected in her novels. ၄။ ~ (on/ upon sth) အေလးအနက္ စဥ္းစားသည္၊ ဆင္ျခင္သည္။ reflect on a problem ❍ Before I decide, I need time just to sit and reflect. ❍ He reflected sadly that he had probably made the wrong decision about the job. ❏ reflected glory n [U] ( derog ) စိန္နားကပ္ အေရာင္ေၾကာင့္ ပါးေျပာင္ျခင္း။ basking in the reflected glory of his wife's success. ❏ reflect well, badly, etc on sb/ sth [ IDM ] ထင္ဟပ္သည္။ ေရာင္ျပန္ဟပ္သည္။ ဂယက္႐ိုက္သည္။ This scandal is bound to reflect badly on the police as a whole.

Examples

1. The lake reflected the surrounding mountains.
2. [be reflected in] : I caught a glimpse of them reflected in the mirror.
3. Pale colours reflect light.
4. [reflect off] : The morning light reflected off the snow.
5. He said that the statement did not reflect his own views.
6. [be reflected in] : Public anger is reflected in the latest opinion polls.
7. He reflects for a moment and then begins to speak again.
8. [reflect on] : Josie reflected on how easily she could have been killed.