Books

Definition

book /bƱk/ n ၁။ [C] (က) စာအုပ္။ a leather-bound book. (ခ) (တစ္ေစာင္တစ္ဖြဲ႕ ျပဳစုထားသည့္) ဝတၳဳ၊ က်မ္း စသည္ စာအုပ္။ writing/reading a book about/on Shakespeare ❍ a book by Stephen King. ၂။ [C] (ေရးစရာ)စာအုပ္။ Write the essay in your (exercise-) books. ❍ an address book (ie one for writing addresses in). ၃။ books [pl] ေငြစာရင္း။ do the books (ie check the accounts) ❍ The company's books are audited every year. ၄။ [C] (အမ်ဳိးအမည္တူ မ်ား)…စာအုပ္၊ အုပ္။ a book of stamps/tickets/matches ❍ a cheque-book. ၅။ [C] က်မ္းႀကီးတစ္ေစာင္၏ ပဓာနက႑ႀကီး တစ္ခု။ The book of the Bible. ၆။ [C] ေလာင္းေၾကးေငြ လက္ခံ စာရင္း။ keep/make/open a book (on sth) (ie take bets on a match, race, etc). ၇။ the book [sing] ( Brit ) တယ္လီဖုန္းအၫႊန္း စာအုပ္။ ဖုန္းၫႊန္း။ Are you in the book? v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (up) ႀကိဳတင္ေနရာယူသည္။ ႀကိဳတင္ လက္မွတ္ယူသည္။ Book early if you want to be sure of a seat. ❍ book a hotel room/a seat on a plane ❍ I'd like to book three seats for tonight's concert. ❍ The hotel/performance is fully booked/is booked up (ie There are no more rooms/tickets available). (ခ) ~ sb on sth ႀကိဳတင္ေနရာ၊ လက္မွတ္စသည္ လုပ္ထားေပးသည္။ We're booked on the next flight. (ဂ) (လူကို) ႀကိဳတင္ ငွားထား သည္။ We've booked a magician for our Christmas party. ၂။ ( infml ) အျပစ္၊ အမႈ က်ဴးလြန္ျခင္းအတြက္ နာမည္ကို တရားဝင္မွတ္တမ္း၌ တင္သည္။ The police booked me for speeding. ❍ He was booked by the referee for foul play. ❏ be in sb's good/bad books [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေကာင္း/ မေကာင္းျမင္ခံရသည္။ You'll be in the boss's bad books if you don't work harder. ❏ bookable adj ၁။ ႀကိဳတင္လက္မွတ္ ဝယ္ယူထားႏိုင္ေသာ။ ႀကိဳတင္၍ ေနရာသီးသန္႔ယူထားႏိုင္ေသာ။ All seats are bookable in advance. ၂။ မွတ္တမ္းတင္ရေလာက္ေသာ (ေဘာလံုးျပစ္ခ်က္)။ ❏ book club n (အသင္းဝင္မ်ားအား အထူးႏႈန္းျဖင့္ ေရာင္းခ် ေပးသည့္) စာအုပ္အသင္း။ ❏ book-end n (usu pl ) ေထာင္၍စီထားေသာ စာအုပ္မ်ား လဲမက်ေအာင္ ထိပ္တစ္ဖက္စီတြင္ ညႇပ္ထားသည့္ ပစၥည္း။ ညႇပ္ပိတ္။ ❏ book in/book into sth [ PHRV ] (ဟိုတယ္၊ ေလဆိပ္ စသည္၌) အမည္စာရင္းေပးသည္။ ❏ book sb in [ PHRV ] ဟိုတယ္ခန္း စသည္ ႀကိဳတင္စီစဥ္ ေပးထားသည္။ We've booked you in at the Plaza for two nights. ❏ booking n [C, U] ( esp Brit ) (လက္မွတ္၊ ေနရာ) ႀကိဳတင္ ယူျခင္း။ a block booking ❍ a booking clerk/form/office/hall ❍ We can't accept any more bookings. ❍ She's in charge of booking(s). ❏ book-plate n စာအုပ္ၾကားတြင္ ခ်ပ္ထည့္ထားသည့္ ဒီဇိုင္းပံုပါ ပိုင္ရွင္အမည္စာရြက္။ ❏ book token n ( Brit ) ေဖာ္ျပပါတန္ဖိုးႏွင့္ညီသည့္ စာအုပ္ႏွင့္ လဲယူႏိုင္ေသာ ေမတၱာလက္ေဆာင္ တိုကင္ကတ္ျပား။ a £10 book token. ❏ bring sb to book (for sth) [ IDM ] ေျဖရွင္းရန္ ေတာင္းဆို သည္။ bring a criminal to book. ❏ by the book [ IDM ] ( infml ) စာအုပ္ႀကီးအတိုင္း။ He's always careful to do things by the book. ❏ (be) on the books of sb/sth [ IDM ] ၁။ အားထားရသူ စာရင္းတြင္ပါသည္။ We've got very few accountants on our books at present. ၂။ ေဘာလံုးကလပ္အသင္းတစ္ခု၌ ပါဝင္ကစားရသည္။ He's on Everton's books. ❏ throw the book at sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) နည္းလမ္း အတိုင္း မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္လုပ္ရန္ ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္သတိေပးသည္ (ကို မလိုက္နာ၍ အေရးယူသည္)။

Examples

1. A book by Nelson Mandela
2. entitled Long Walk to Freedom
3. [book about/on] : I’m reading a book about American history.
4. As well as being produced annually in hardback
5. the book is also published electronically.
6. It’s so convenient to find a book online and download it.
7. Please open your books at page 25.
8. The Book of Job
9. Visitors to the building must sign the book.
10. [address/exercise book] : I wrote his phone number in my address book.
11. You can buy stamps in books of ten.
12. [do the books] : Alfred’s job was to do the books at the end of each month.
13. [on someone’s books] : A theatrical agency with dozens of top actors on its books
14. As weddings go
15. theirs was one for the books.