As far as the eye can see

Definition

far / fɑ:(r) / adv ( farther /'fɑ:ðǝ(r) / or further /'fɜ:ðǝ(r) /; farthest / 'fɑ:ðÇst / or furthest / 'fɜ:ðÇst /) ၁။ (usu in questions and negative sentences) အကြာ။ အလွမ္း။ ေဝးေဝး။ လွမ္းလွမ္း။ ‘How far is it to the bank from here?’ ‘It's not very far. ’ ❍ ‘How far have we walked?’ ‘A long way—about ten miles. ’ ❍ We didn't go far. ၂။ (followed by particles and preps ) (က) အလြန္ ကြာေဝးစြာ။ ေဝးေဝး။ လွမ္းလွမ္း။ far above the clouds ❍ countries as far apart as Japan and Brazil ❍ There's a stream not far from here. ❍ Call me if you need me; I won't be far away/off. (ခ) လြန္ေလၿပီးေသာ ကာလက။ ေရွးသေရာအခါ က။ ၾကာျမင့္စြာ။ far back in history ❍ as far back as 1902 ❍ We danced far into the night. (ဂ) အလြန္အကြၽံ။ live far beyond one's means ❍ He's fallen far behind in his work. ၃။ (followed by comparative adjs and advs ) ပို၍။ a far more reliable car ❍ a far better solution ❍ He runs far faster than his brother. adj ( farther / 'fɑ:ðǝ(r)/ or further /'fɜ:ðǝ (r)/; farthest /'fɑ:ðÇst/ or furthest /'fɜ:ðÇst/) ၁။ အစြန္က်ေသာ။ အစြန္းေရာက္ေသာ။ at the far end of the street ❍ on the far bank of the river ❍ She is on the far right of the party (ie holds extreme right-wing (Right 5 ) views). ၂။ ( dated or fml ) အလွမ္းကြာေဝးေသာ။ a far country ❍ to journey into far regions. ❏ as far as [ IDM ] (ေဖာ္ျပသည့္ေနရာ)အထိ။ I' ve read as far as the third chapter. ❍ I'll walk with you as far as the post office. ❍ We'll go by train as far as London, and then take a coach. ❏ as/so far as [ IDM ] ၁။ အထိသာ။ We didn't go as far as the others. ၂။ သမွ်။ သေလာက္။ သေရြ႕။ မွ်ေလာက္။ အတိုင္း။ So far as I know/As far as I can see, that is highly unlikely. ❍ His parents supported him as far as they could. ၃။ အထိ။ မွ်ေလာက္သာ။ She managed to crawl as far as the door. ❍ We've got as far as collecting our data but we haven't analysed it yet. ❏ as/so far as it, etc goes [ IDM ] မွ်ေလာက္ေတာ့။ အထိေတာ့။ Your plan is a good one as far as it goes, but there are several points you've not considered. ❏ as/so far as sb/sth is concerned [ IDM ] အေနႏွင့္ ေတာ့။ ပတ္သက္လို႔ေတာ့။ The rise in interest rates will be disastrous as far as small firms are concerned. ❍ The car is fine as far as the engine is concerned, but the bodywork needs a lot of attention. ❍ As far as I'm concerned you can do what you like. ❏ as far as the eye can see [ IDM ] မ်က္စိတစ္ဆံုး။ The prairies stretch on all sides as far as the eye can see. ❏ by far [ IDM ] မယွဥ္သာေအာင္။ အျပတ္အသတ္။ It is quicker by far to go by train. ❍ She is the best by far/She is by far the best. ❏ carry/take sth too, etc far [ IDM ] လြန္လြန္းသည္။ Don't be such a prude—you can carry modesty too far! ❍ It's time to be serious; you've carried this joke far enough. ❏ far and away [ IDM ] အျပတ္အသတ္။ အမ်ားႀကီး။ (ဗန္း) အရမ္း။ She's far and away the best actress in the movie. ❏ far and near/wide [ IDM ] အႏွံ႔အျပား။ ေနရာတကာ။ They searched far and wide for the missing child. ❏ far-away adj ၁။ ေဝးကြာေသာ။ visit far-away places. ၂။ ေငးငိုင္ေနေသာ။ You have a far-away look in your eyes. ❏ far be it from me to do sth (but…) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေဝးစြေျခာက္ပါး။ စိတ္ေတာင္မကူးဘူး။ Far be it from me to interfere in your affairs but I would like to give you just one piece of advice. ❏ a far cry from sth / doing sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) တျခားစီျဖစ္ေသာ။ Life on a farm is a far cry from what I've been used to. ❏ the Far East n ကမ႓ာ့အေရွ႕ဖ်ားႏိုင္ငံမ်ား။ ❏ far - fetched adj (usu derog) ၁။ သဘာဝမက်ေသာ။ မရမက။ မဆီမဆိုင္။ ၂။ ( infml ) (of a story, an account, etc) ယုတၱိမရိွေသာ။ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ The film's plot is interesting but rather far-fetched. ❏ far-flung adj ၁။ ျဖန္႔ၾကက္ထားေသာ။ a far-flung network of contacts. ၂။ ေဝးလံေသာ။ Her fame has reached the most far-flung corners of the globe. ❏ far from doing sth [ IDM ] မထင္ေလနဲ႔။ Far from enjoying dancing, he loathes it. ❏ far from sth / from doing sth [ IDM ] ေနေနသာသာ။ The problem is far from easy (ie is very difficult). ❍ Your account is far from (being) accurate. ❏ far from it [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေဝးေသးတယ္။ ေနေနသာသာ။ ‘Are you happy here?’ ‘No, far from it; I've never been so miserable in my life. ’ ❏ far gone adj ( infml derog ) (အမူး စသည္) လြန္ေနေသာ။ မူးယစ္ေနေသာ။ She was too far gone to understand anything we said to her. ❏ far - off adj ကြာလွမ္းေသာ။ a far-off country/galaxy. ❏ far-reaching adj အႏွံ႔အစပ္ထိ ေရာက္ရိွေသာ။ a far-reaching inquiry ❍ far-reaching consequences/implications. ❏ far-sighted adj ၁။ ( approv ) (က) (also far-seeing ) အေျမာ္အျမင္ ႀကီးေသာ။ အျမင္က်ယ္ေသာ။ a far-sighted diplomat/entrepreneur. (ခ) (of ideas, etc) အေျမာ္အျမင္ ႀကီးေသာ။ အျမင္က်ယ္ေသာ။ far-sighted changes in the organization. ၂။ ( esp US ) = LONG-SIGHTED အနီးမႈန္ေသာ။ ❏ go as/so far as to do sth/as that, etc [ IDM ] သည္ အထိ မေျပာလို၊ မလုပ္လို စသည္။ I won't go so far as to say that he is dishonest (ie I won't actually accuse him of being dishonest, even though I might suspect him of it). ❏ go far [ IDM ] ၁။ တာသြားသည္။ A pound doesn't go very far (ie You can't buy very much for a pound) nowadays. ၂။ တာသြားသည္။ Four bottles of wine won't go far among twenty people. ❏ go far / a long way [ IDM ] တက္လမ္းရိွသည္။ Someone as intelligent as her should go far. ❏ go far / a long way towards sth / doing sth [ IDM ] ထိေရာက္သည္။ တာသြားသည္။ concessions which go a long way towards satisfying his critics ❍ The new legislation does not go far enough towards solving the problem. ❏ go too far [ IDM ] လြန္လြန္းသည္။ He's always been pretty crude but this time he's gone too far. ❏ in so far as [ IDM ] သမွ်။ သေလာက္။ သေရြ႕။ That's the truth in so far as I know it. ❏ not be far off / out / wrong [ IDM ] ( infml ) မလြဲ လွဘူး။ Your guess wasn't far out. ❏ so far; thus far [ IDM ] ( infml ) ယခုအထိ။ The results have been encouraging, so far. ❏ so far [ IDM ] ( infml ) သ၍။ သမွ်။ I trust him only so far (and no further). ❏ so far, so good [ IDM ] ( saying ) ယခုအထိေတာ့ ေကာင္းတုန္းပဲ။

Examples

1. You can go outside and play
2. but don’t go far.
3. [far from] : The main post office is not far from the library.
4. [far away] : Then from far away the train whistle sounded.
5. [far back/above/below etc] : He always sat as far back as possible in the lecture hall.
6. [how far?] : How far does this road go?
7. How far is it to the next town?
8. [as far as] : She had got as far as the museum before he found her.
9. She moved to the far side of the bed to make room.
10. He saw Lynn standing at the far end of the bar.
11. [the far left/right] : I’m the one on the far left.
12. [the far north/south/east/west] : A little village in the far north of Scotland
13. A traveller from a far country
14. [far more/bigger/better etc] : The situation is bad in England
15. but it is far worse in Scotland.
16. The Prime Minister is far more interested in the vote.
17. [far above/below] : There are more than 97 signatures
18. which is far above the required number.
19. The results were far below our expectations.
20. [far too much/big/easy etc] : The issue is far too important to be discussed behind closed doors.
21. You eat far too much.
22. How far have you got with the planning?
23. We want to stress just how far the committee has progressed.
24. We’re not going to get very far if we don’t trust each other.
25. How far do you think the novel supports the idea that women should never rely on men?
26. The latest opinion polls show how far the government’s popularity has fallen.
27. [go too far] : Do you think feminism has gone too far?
28. [carry something too far] : I realize that she wants to protect her children
29. but she’s carrying it too far.
30. [go as/so far as to do something] : He even went as far as to accuse me of betraying him.
31. [far into] : The bank had intended to be a global leader far into the next century.
32. [far back] : A castle has stood on this site since as far back as 1230.
33. [far in advance] : The date of an election is not normally announced so far in advance.