Beyond

Definition

beyond /bÇ'jɒnd/ prep ၁။ ဟိုမွာဘက္တြင္။ The new housing project stretches beyond the playing-fields. ❍ The road continues beyond the village up into the hills. ၂။ (အခ်ိန္) ထက္ေက်ာ္လြန္၍။ It won't go on beyond midnight. ❍ I know what I'll be doing for the next three weeks but I haven't thought beyond that. ❍ We're planning for the year 2000 and beyond. ၃။ ထက္ပိုလြန္၍။ ေက်ာ္လြန္၍။ Our success was far beyond what we thought possible. ❍ I didn't notice anything beyond her rather strange accent. ❍ He's living beyond his means (ie spending more than he earns). ❍ She's got nothing beyond her state pension. ❍ That's (going) beyond a joke (ie That is no longer funny). ၄။ မ …ႏိုင္ေလာက္ေအာင္။ The bicycle is beyond repair (ie is too badly damaged to repair). ❍ After 25 years the town centre had changed beyond (all) recognition. ❍ They're paying $75 000 for a small apartment—it's beyond belief. ❍ The situation is beyond our control. adv ထိုမွေက်ာ္လ်က္။ Snowdon and the mountains beyond were covered in snow. ❍ The immediate future is clear, but it's hard to tell what lies beyond. ❏ be beyond sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဉာဏ္မမီႏိုင္။ နားမလည္ႏိုင္။ It's beyond me why she wants to marry Jeff. ❍ How people design computer games is beyond me. ❍ Carrying all three suitcases was beyond me.

Examples

1. He could see a line of cypress trees and
2. beyond it
3. a landscape of red hills.
4. Traders looked eastwards to India and beyond.
5. By now Dr Barnard’s fame had spread far beyond South Africa.
6. Our knowledge does not extend much beyond these few facts.
7. Scott pushed his men beyond the limits of human endurance.
8. The government has introduced measures that go far beyond anything that was in their manifesto.
9. I know nothing about him beyond the fact that he used to work for the government.
10. She had no income beyond what she could earn as a waitress.
11. We aren’t attempting to plan ahead beyond the next two years.
12. Some people will prefer to continue working beyond 65.
13. Inflation had risen beyond 10%.
14. She never went beyond Year 12 in school.
15. The situation is already beyond our control.
16. Martin was living in Brazil
17. beyond the reach of the British police.
18. I’m afraid the watch is damaged beyond repair (=it cannot be repaired).