Representations

Definition

represent 1 / ' reprÇ'zent/ v ၁။ (esp passive) ကိုယ္စားျပဳျခင္း ခံရ သည္။ Women were not represented in the government at that time. ❍ Our school was well represented at the meeting (ie A lot of people from our school were there). ၂။ တရားဝင္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အျဖစ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္သည္။ ကိုယ္စားျပဳသည္။ Members of Parliament representing Welsh constituencies ❍ Our firm is represented at the conference by Mr James Hall. ❍ Who is representing you (ie acting as your lawyer) in the case? ၃။ (esp passive) ကိုယ္စားျပဳသည္။ The President was represented (at the funeral) by the Vice-president. ၄။ (က) ႏွင့္အလားတူပင္ျဖစ္သည္။ အရာေရာက္သည္။ ျဖစ္သည္။ These changes represent a threat to international security. ❍ Indirectly, his words represented an accusation. ❍ A pay rise of 5% represents an annual increase of £400 for the lowestpaid workers. (ခ) အက်ဳိးရလဒ္ျဖစ္သည္။ This new car represents years of research. (ဂ) ကိုယ္စားျပဳ သည္။ Those comments do not represent all our views. ❍ His new piece represents a major new trend in modern music. ၅။ ကိုယ္စားျပဳသည္။ Phonetic symbols represent sounds. ❍ What does x represent in this equation? ၆။ သ႐ုပ္ေဖာ္သည္။ The picture represents a hunting scene. ❍ The king is represented as a villain in the play. ၇။ ~ sth (to sb) ( fml ) တင္ျပသည္။ represent the rashness of a plan ❍ They represented their grievances to the Governor. ❍ The lawyer represented to the court that the defendant was mentally unstable. ၈။ ( fml ) ေဖာ္ျပသည္။ ပံုခိုင္းသည္။ Why do you represent the matter in this way? ❍ The risks were represented as negligible. ❍ I am not what you represent me to be. ❏ representation / ' reprÇzen'teÇʃn/ n ၁။ [U] ကိုယ္စားျပဳ ျခင္း။ effective representation (ie in Parliament) of voters' interests ❍ The firm needs more representation in China. ၂။ representations [pl] ~ s (to sb) ( fml ) တင္ျပ ျခင္း။ တင္ျပေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္။ make representations to the council about the state of the roads ❍ Union representations failed to influence the management's position. ၃။ [C] (fml) ပံုစံ။ ပံု။ plastic representations of dinosaurs. See also PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION ❏ representational adj သ႐ုပ္ေဖာ္ (ပန္းခ်ီ၊ ပန္းပု၊ အႏုပညာ လက္ရာ)။ representational paintings. represent 2 / ' ri:prÇ'zent/ v (ေငြေပးေခ်ရန္) ထပ္မံတင္ျပ ေတာင္းဆို သည္။

Examples

1. Ambassador Albright will represent the United States at the ceremony.
2. A group that represents the interests of the workers in the steel industry
3. At that time Mr Ishihara represented the Shinagawa district of Tokyo.
4. A newspaper that claims to represent ‘Middle England’
5. Albanians represent about 90 per cent of the population in Kosovo.
6. This represents an increase of 22% on last year’s profits.
7. The college’s music library represents a unique resource.
8. The colour red commonly represents danger.
9. The statue represents Jefferson as a young man.
10. Ben’s ambition is to represent Britain at the Olympics.
11. His narrow-minded backward-looking views represent everything I dislike about this country.
12. His novels have been criticized for the negative way in which they represent women.
13. [represent someone/something as something] : The film represented Kennedy’s assassination as a government conspiracy.