Bad debt

Definition

bad /bæd/ adj ( worse /wɜ:s/; worst /wɜ:st/) ၁။ (က) ညံ့ေသာ။ မေကာင္းေသာ။ a bad lecture/ harvest ❍ bad pronunciation/ eyesight ❍ You can't take photographs if the light is bad. (ခ) ဖ်င္းေသာ။ a bad teacher/ hairdresser/ poet ❍ a bad liar/ listener ❍ a bad loser (ie sb who complains when they lose a game, etc). ၂။ (အက်င့္၊ စ႐ိုက္) မေကာင္းေသာ။ မိုက္ေသာ။ It's bad to steal. ❍ When he was old, he regretted all the bad things he had done in his life. ၃။ ဆိုးေသာ။ မေကာင္းေသာ။ a bad smell ❍ In the recession, our firm went through a bad time. ❍ What bad weather we're having! ❍ He's had some bad news: his father has died suddenly. ၄။ ဆိုးဆိုးဝါးဝါး ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a bad mistake/ accident/ fracture/ headache. ၅။ ပုပ္ေသာ။ သိုးေသာ။ bad eggs/ meat ❍ The fish will go bad if you don't put it in the fridge. ၆။ (ကိုယ္ခႏၶာ) မက်န္းမာေသာ၊ မေကာင္းေသာ။ bad teeth ❍ a bad back/ leg ❍ She has to take it easy because she has a bad heart. ၇။ ~ for sb/ sth ဆိုးက်ဳိးျဖစ္ေစေသာ။ မေကာင္းေသာ။ Smoking is bad for you/ for your health. ❍ Too much rain is bad for the crops. ၈။ မသင့္ေလ်ာ္ေသာ။ Is this a bad time to ask you for a favour? ❍ This beach is good for swimming but bad for surfing. adv ( US infml ) သိပ္ကို။ အလြန္႔အလြန္။ That's what I want, and I want it bad. ❍ Are you hurt bad? n the bad [U] မေကာင္းတာေတြ။ She has had little experience of the bad in life. ❏ bad debt n [C, U] ျပန္ရႏိုင္ရန္မရိွေသာအေႂကြး။ ေႂကြးဆံုး။ ❏ baddy n ( infml ) (႐ုပ္ရွင္၊ ဝတၳဳ စသည္တြင္) လူၾကမ္း။ a simple story of goodies versus baddies. ❏ bad language n ဖ႐ုသဝါစာ။ There's no need to use bad language! ❏ badly adv ( worse, worst) ၁။ (က) ဆိုးဝါးစြာ။ ညံ့ဖ်င္းစြာ။ play/ work/ sing badly ❍ badly made/ dressed. (ခ) မေအာင္ျမင္။ မဟန္။ Things have been going badly at work recently. ❍ I'm afraid our team's doing very badly. (ဂ) ဆိုးဝါးစြာ။ The economic crisis reflects badly on the government's policies. ၂။ အလြန္။ သိပ္။ badly in need of repair ❍ They want to see her very badly. ၃။ ဆိုးဆိုးဝါးဝါး။ မ႐ႈမလွ။ badly wounded ❍ a badly bruised thumb ❍ badly beaten at football. badness n [U] ❏ badly off [ IDM ] ခြၽတ္ၿခံဳက်သည္။ She's been very badly off since losing her job. ❍ We shouldn't complain about being poor—many families are much worse off (than we are). ❏ bad-mouth v ( US infml ) (သူမ်ားအေၾကာင္း) အပုပ္ခ်သည္။ ❏ bad-tempered adj စိတ္တိုေသာ။ I'm often bad-tempered early in the morning. ❏ be badly off for sth [ IDM ] အလြန္လိုအပ္ေနသည္။ The refugees are badly off for blankets, and even worse off for food. ❏ not bad [ IDM ] ( infml ) မဆိုးပါဘူး။ ‘How are you feeling?’ ‘Not too bad!’ ❍ That wasn't bad for a first attempt. ❏ take the bad with the good [ IDM ] ေကာင္းမ်ဳိး ဆိုးမ်ဳိးခံသည္။ ❏ to the bad [ IDM ] ( Brit ) အ႐ံႈးေပၚသည္။ I am £ 500 to the bad (ie I have £500 less than I had). ❏ too bad [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ ဝမ္းနည္းစရာပါ။ စိတ္မေကာင္း စရာပဲ။ It's too bad you can't come to the party. ၂။ ( ironic ) ကံဆိုးတာပဲ။ ‘My helping's rather small. ’ ‘Too bad! It's all you're going to get. ’

Examples

1. The weather was really bad – it rained all week.
2. She was feeling stressed after a bad day at work.
3. I’m afraid I have some bad news for you.
4. A bad dream
5. For people living alone
6. Christmas is often the worst time of the year.
7. A bad accident/mistake/case of flu
8. Police used tear gas
9. but that just made the situation worse.
10. It was the worst scandal of the Clinton presidency.
11. [go from bad to worse] : In the second half of the game
12. things went from bad to worse.
13. A bad diet
14. [bad for] : Too much salt can be bad for your heart.
15. The show got a really bad review in the Sunday paper.
16. Worried about bad publicity
17. the drug companies agreed to reduce their prices.
18. [bad for] : They are trying to develop tourism
19. but high crime rates are bad for business.
20. One of this year’s worst films
21. Bad management/workmanship
22. The show was so bad they took it off after two episodes.
23. A bad driver/teacher
24. [bad at (doing) something] : I’m really bad at remembering people’s names.
25. A bad decision
26. You’ve been given bad advice.
27. I can come back later if this is a bad time for you.
28. A bad way to treat your customers
29. It’s bad that you have to wait so long for an appointment.
30. A bad back/leg/stomach
31. You shouldn’t try these exercises if you have a bad heart.
32. He’s not a bad man
33. just very weak.
34. This milk smells bad.
35. [go bad] : It will go bad if you don’t put it in the refrigerator.
36. My mom is taken bad this morning.