Amused

Definition

amuse /ǝ'mju:z/ v ၁။ သေဘာက်သည္။ ၿပံဳးရယ္ေစသည္။ Everyone was amused by the story about the dog. ❍ My funny drawings amused the children. ❍ We were amused to learn that… ❍ Janet was not amused (ie rather annoyed). ၂။ အပ်င္းေျပေစသည္။ These toys will help to keep the baby amused. ❍ They amused themselves by looking at old photographs. ❏ amused adj ~ (at sth) ရယ္စရာေတြ႕ [ေသာ]။ သေဘာ က် [ေသာ]။ Privately, they were amused at his clumsiness. ❍ Helen watched amused. ❍ They exchanged amused glances. ❏ amusement n ၁။ [C] ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖမႈ။ I would never choose to watch golf as an amusement. ❍ The hotel offers its guests a wide variety of amusements. ၂။ [U] ရယ္ခ်င္စိတ္။ ရယ္ရျခင္း။ She could not disguise her amusement at his mistake. ❍ To my great amusement his false beard fell off. ၃။ [U] ရယ္စရာ။ အေပ်ာ္အျပက္။ I only do it for amusement (ie not for any serious purpose). ❏ amusement arcade n ( Brit ) တီဗီြကစားနည္း စသည့္ စက္ခံုမ်ားတြင္ အခေၾကးေပး၍ ကစားႏိုင္ေသာ ကစား႐ံု။ ❏ amusement park n ( esp US ) ခ်ား၊ ရဟတ္ စသည္ အပ်င္းေျပစီးနင္းႏိုင္ေသာ အပန္းေျဖဥယ်ာဥ္။ ❏ amusing adj ရယ္စရာ။ ရႊင္ျမဴးဖြယ္ရာ။ an amusing story/storyteller ❍ Our visits to the theatre made the holiday more amusing.

Examples

1. Her stories never fail to amuse me.
2. We need something that will amuse a 10-year-old for an afternoon.
3. [amuse yourself] : Don’t rush – we can find something to amuse ourselves with until you get here.