Dictionary entry
The facts speak for themselves
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Myanmar Meaning
[IDM ] ရှင်းနေတာ ဘာအထူးပြောစရာ လိုသေးလဲ။
Definition
fact / fækt / n ၁။ [C] အမွန္တရား။ No one can deny the fact that fire burns. ❍ Poverty and crime are facts. ❍ I know for a fact (ie I know that it is really true) that he's involved in some illegal activities. ❍ I won't come here again, and that's a fact! ❍ The judge instructed both lawyers to stick to the facts of the case. ၂။ [ C ] ျဖစ္ရပ္မွန္။ အျဖစ္။ The fact that I couldn't speak the language made things very difficult for me. ❍ In spite of the fact that he had never played the game before, he played well. ❍ In view of the fact that it's getting late, ❍ we'll end the meeting now. ၃။ [ C ] အခ်က္အလက္။ If you're going to make accusations, you'd better get your facts right (ie make sure they are correct). ၄။ [U] အကယ္ရိွေသာအရာ။ အျဖစ္မွန္။ ျဖစ္ရပ္မွန္။ The story is founded on fact. ❍ It's important to distinguish fact from fiction. ❏ fact-finding adj အျဖစ္မွန္ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ရန္။ go on a fact-finding mission/tour. ❏ the fact (of the matter) is (that)… [ IDM ] ျဖစ္ရပ္မွန္ကေတာ့။ A new car would be wonderful but the fact of the matter is (that) we can't afford one. ❍ I agree that he tried hard. Nevertheless, the fact remains that he has not finished the job on time. ❏ a fact of life [ IDM ] ေလာကတံတြာ ဓမၼတာ တရား။ We must all die some time—that's just a fact of life. ❏ fact-sheet n အေၾကာင္းအရာ အခ်က္အလက္ အခ်ဳပ္။ For further details, write in for our free fact-sheet. ❏ facts and figures [ IDM ] ခိုင္လံုေသာ အခ်က္အလက္။ Before we make a decision, we need more facts and figures. ❏ the facts of life ( euph ) [ IDM ] ေလာကတံတြာ ဖိုမကိစၥ။ ❏ the facts speak for themselves [ IDM ] ရွင္းေနတာ ဘာအထူးေျပာစရာ လိုေသးလဲ။ ❏ in (actual) fact [ IDM ] အမွန္အားျဖင့္။ တကယ္ေတာ့။ I thought the work would be difficult. In fact, it's quite easy. ❍ In actual fact, he's much nicer than he seems.
Examples
- They have simply attempted to state the facts.
- [fact about] : The classes are designed to help children discover basic scientific facts.
- [fact of] : He wrote an article explaining the main facts of the case.
- [hard/plain facts] : We want the hard facts about what the project is going to cost.
- The story is based on historical fact.
- Margaret does not yet seem to have learned the difference between fact and fiction.
- It’s obvious you’re angry
- so why deny the fact?
- [fact that] : He has never hidden the fact that he’s gay.