The Dark Ages

Definition

dark / dɑ:k / adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ ေမွာင္မိုက္ေသာ။ ေမွာင္မည္းေသာ။ အလင္းေရာင္မရိွေသာ။ a dark room / street ❍ It's rather dark in here—can we have the light on? ❍ It's too dark to play outside. ၂။ (က) မည္းေသာ၊ ရင့္ေသာ (အေရာင္)။ dark green/grey/red ❍ a dark suit. (ခ) နက္ေသာ (ဆံပင္၊ မ်က္စိ)။ (ဂ) ညိဳေသာ၊ မည္းေသာ (အသားေရာင္)။ a dark complexion. (ဃ) ဆံပင္နက္၊ မ်က္လံုးနက္ႏွင့္ အသားညိဳေမာင္း ေသာ။ ညိဳေခ်ာ။ a tall, dark, handsome stranger. Compare LIGHT adj ၃။ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ဖံုးကြယ္ထားေသာ။ a dark secret/mystery ❍ I'm thinking of leaving the company but keep it dark—I don't want anyone else to know. ၄။ မေကာင္းေသာ။ စိတ္ဓာတ္က်ဖြယ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ကင္းေသာ။ dark predictions about the future ❍ Don't always look on the dark side of things. ၅။ ယုတ္မာေသာ။ ဆိုးေသာ။ dark powers/influence. ❍ a book which dwells on the darker side of the emperor's nature. n the dark [sing] အေမွာင္။ ေမွာင္။ All the lights went out and we were left in the dark. ❍ Are you afraid of the dark? Compare LIGHT n ❏ before/after dark [ IDM ] မေမွာင္ခင္။ ေနမဝင္ခင္။ ေမွာင္လွ်င္(ရင္)။ ေနဝင္လွ်င္(ရင္)။ Try to get home before dark. ❍ I'm afraid to go out after dark in the city. ❏ the Dark Ages n [pl] အေမွာင္ေခတ္။ ဥေရာပသမိုင္းတြင္ ေရာမအင္ပါယာအဆံုးႏွင့္ ၁၀ ရာစုေအဒီ အၾကားကာလ။ ❏ dark glasses n [pl] ေနကာမ်က္မွန္။ ❏ a dark horse [ IDM ] မိမိဘဝ ဇာတ္ျမႇဳပ္ဖံုးဝွက္ထားသူ။ မိမိအစြမ္းအစကို လွ်ဳိထားသူ။ He's a dark horse if ever there was one! ❏ darkly adv ၁။ ထိတ္လန္႔စဖြယ္။ She hinted darkly at strange events. ၂။ စိုးရိမ္စြာ။ စိတ္ပ်က္လက္ပ်က္။ talk darkly of the possibility of job losses. ❏ darkness n [U] အေမွာင္။ အေမွာင္ထု။ The room was suddenly plunged into complete darkness. ❍ during the hours of darkness (ie at night). ❏ in the dark (about sth) [ IDM ] ဘာမွ်မသိ။ လံုးဝမသိ။ We were kept completely in the dark about the plan to sell the company. ❏ a leap / shot in the dark [ IDM ] ရမ္းသန္း(လုပ္၊ ေျပာ စသည္…)။ မွန္းခ်။ မွန္းတုတ္။ ရမ္းတုတ္။ It's hard to know exactly what to do—we'll just have to take a shot in the dark.

Examples

1. A dark and stormy night
2. When Maggie woke up
3. it was still dark.
4. [completely dark] : By this time it was ten o’clock and completely dark.
5. [get/grow dark] : When they left
6. it was already starting to get dark (=become dark at the end of a day).
7. [go dark] : The room went dark and the cinema screen flickered into life.
8. He was dressed in a dark suit with a white shirt.
9. There were dark patches on the walls where water had soaked through.
10. She glanced up at the dark clouds above the cliffs.
11. [dark blue/green/red etc] : A dark blue jacket
12. He was tanned and had dark curly hair.
13. An attractive dark-haired nurse
14. He looked up at her
15. his dark eyes strangely bright.
16. A tall dark man
17. I always suspected there was a darker side to his character.
18. During the darkest days of the war
19. [someone’s darkest hour] : This was the President’s darkest hour.
20. In some dark corner of his mind
21. They would see sources go dark that were previously productive.
22. All Washington theatres went dark in the wake of the suicide crash on the Pentagon.