Burn the candle at both ends

Definition

burn /bɜ:n/ v ( pt, pp burnt /bɜ:nt/ or burned /bɜ:nd/) ၁။ (က) ေလာင္သည္။ ႐ိႈ႕သည္။ ၿမိႇဳက္သည္။ ကြၽမ္းသည္။ ေလာင္၍ အမွတ္အရာထင္သည္။ burn dead leaves/waste paper/rubbish ❍ All his belongings were burnt in the fire. ❍ Sorry, I've burned the toast. ❍ His face was badly burnt by the hot sun. ❍ The soup is very hot. Don't burn your mouth. ❍ I burnt myself while I was getting the food out of the oven. ❍ The house was burnt to the ground (ie completely destroyed by fire). (ခ) ေလာင္ခံရသည္။ ႐ိႈ႕ခံရသည္။ ၿမိႇဳက္ခံရသည္။ I can smell something hurning in the kitchen. ❍ Her skin burns easily. ၂။ မီးေလာင္ ေပါက္ ျဖစ္သည္။ The cigarette burnt a hole in the carpet. ၃။ (က) မီးေတာက္ေလာင္သည္။ a burning building ❍ The house burned for hours before the blaze was put out. (ခ) အလင္းဓာတ္ (သို႔) အပူဓာတ္ေပးသည္။ A welcoming fire was burning in the fireplace. ❍ We could see a light burning upstairs but nobody answered the door. (ဂ) မီးၿငိသည္၊ စြဲသည္။ Paper burns easily. ❍ Damp wood doesn't burn well. ၄။ မီးေလာင္ေသသည္။ မီး႐ိႈ႕သတ္သည္။ Joan of Arc was burnt (alive) at the stake. ❍ Ten people burned to death in the hotel fire. ၅။ ေလာင္စာအျဖစ္ သံုးသည္။ Do you burn coal as well as wood on this fire? ❍ a furnace that burns gas/oil/coke. ၆။ ခ်စ္ခ်စ္ေတာက္ ပူသည္၊ ပူေစသည္။ Your forehead's burning. Do you have a fever? ❍ The heat from the fire was burning me so I moved away. ၇။ ~ with sth (usu in the continuous tenses) (ေလာဘ၊ ေဒါသ၊ မာနစသည့္ မီးတို႔) ေတာက္ေလာင္ သည္။ be burning with rage/desire. ၈။ (usu in the continuous tenses) ဆႏၵျပင္းျပသည္။ He was burning to climb again for the sheer joy of it. n ၁။ မီး၊ အပူ၊ အက္စစ္စသည္ ေလာင္သည့္ဒဏ္ရာ၊ အကြက္။ He died of the burns he received in the fire. ❍ How did that burn on the settee get there? ၂။ အာကာသယာဥ္၏ (လမ္းေၾကာင္းေျပာင္းရန္၊ အရိွန္ျမႇင့္ရန္) ဒံုးစက္ကို ဖြင့္ျခင္း၊ ႏိႈးျခင္း။ ❏ burn (sth) away [ PHRV ] ၁။ မီးေလာင္ ေပ်ာက္ပ်က္ သည္။ မီး႐ိႈ႕ေဖ်ာက္ဖ်က္သည္။ Half the candle had burnt away. ၂။ မီးေလာင္၍ ကြာက်သည္။ Most of the skin on his face got burnt away in the fire. ❏ burn one's boats/bridges [ IDM ] [ဥ] ေနာက္ဆုတ္ရန္ မရိွေအာင္ ေဖာင္ဖ်က္သည္။ Think carefully before you resign—if you do that you will have burnt your boats and you might regret it. ❏ burn the candle at both ends [ IDM ] အလြန္အမင္း အလုပ္လုပ္ျခင္း၊ အိပ္ပ်က္ခံလြန္းျခင္းေၾကာင့္ အလြန္ပင္ပန္း ႏြမ္းနယ္သည္။ ❏ burn (sth) down [ PHRV ] ျပာက်သြားသည္။ ျပာပံုျဖစ္ ေအာင္ ႐ိႈ႕သည္။ The house burned down in half an hour. ❍ Don't leave the gas on—you might burn the house down. ❏ burner n မီးဖိုစသည္တြင္ မီးေတာက္ထြက္ေပၚရာ အစိတ္ အပိုင္း။ ❏ burn one's fingers/get one's fingers burnt [ IDM ] မေကာင္းေသာအလားအလာမ်ားကို ႀကိဳ၍ မဆင္ျခင္မိသျဖင့္ အႏၲရာယ္ႏွင့္ႀကံဳသည္။ He got his fingers badly burnt dabbling in the stock market. ❏ burning adj ၁။ အလြန္ျပင္းျပေသာ။ a burning thirst ❍ a burning desire for sth. ၂။ အလြန္အေရးႀကီးေသာ၊ အလ်င္ လိုေသာ။ one of the burning issues of the day. ❏ burn the midnight oil [ IDM ] ညဥ့္နက္သန္းေခါင္ အလုပ္လုပ္သည္။ She takes her exams next week, so she's burning the midnight oil. ❏ burn sth off [ PHRV ] အပူျဖင့္ ကြာက်ေစသည္။ Burn the old paint off before repainting the door. ❏ burn-out n [C, U] ၁။ ဆက္တိုက္ပင္ပန္းခံသျဖင့္ ကိုယ္အား စိတ္အား ခ်ံဳးခ်ံဳးက်ျခင္း။ The demands on sportsmen today can lead to burn-out at an early age. ၂။ ဒံုးယာဥ္ ေလာင္စာ ေလာင္ကြၽမ္း ကုန္ခန္းသြားျခင္း။ ❏ burn (itself) out [ PHRV ] (ေလာင္စာကုန္၍) မီးၿငိမ္းသည္။ The fire had burnt (itself) out before the fire brigade arrived. ❏ burn (sth) out [ PHRV ] (စက္အစိတ္အပိုင္းစသည္) ေလာင္သြားသည္၊ ကြၽမ္းသြားသည္။ The clutch has burnt out. ❍ burn out a fuse/an engine. ❏ burn oneself out [ PHRV ] (ဆက္တိုက္အပင္ပန္းခံလြန္း သျဖင့္) အားအင္ကုန္ခန္းသြားသည္။ က်န္းမာေရး ခြၽတ္ၿခံဳက်သြား သည္။ If he doesn't stop working so hard, he'll burn himself out. ❍ By the age of 25 she was completely burned out and retired from the sport. ❏ burn sb out [ PHRV ] (esp passive) အိမ္မီး႐ိႈ႕ခံရသျဖင့္ ေက်ာေကာ့၍ ဆင္းေျပးရသည္။ The family was burnt out (of house and home) during the race riots. ❏ burn sth out [ PHRV ] (esp passive) မီးေလာင္သျဖင့္ အခြံခ်ည္းက်န္သည္။ The hotel was completely burnt out. ❍ the burnt-out wreck of a car. ❏ burnt adj မီးကြၽမ္းေသာ။ တူးေသာ။ အပူေလာင္ေသာ။ မီးေလာင္ထားေသာ။ rather burnt toast ❍ Your hand looks badly burnt. ❏ burnt offering n (က) မီး႐ိႈ႕ၿပီး ယဇ္ပူေဇာ္သည့္အရာ။ (ခ) ( joc ) မေတာ္တဆ တူးခ်စ္သြားသည့္ စားစရာ။ ❏ burn (sth) to sth [ PHRV ] မီးေလာင္သျဖင့္ ျပာ၊ မီးေသြးတံုး စသည္ ျဖစ္သြားသည္။ It burned to ashes. ❍ You've burnt the toast to a cinder (ie so that it is hard and black). ❏ burn sth to a crisp [ IDM ] အပူျပင္းလြန္း၍ တူးခ်စ္ သြားသည္၊ ႂကြပ္သြားသည္။ The meat was burnt to a crisp. ❍ ( fig ) I lay in the sun all day and got burnt to a crisp. ❏ burn up [ PHRV ] ၁။ မီးေတာက္အရိွန္ ပိုေကာင္းသည္။ put more wood on a fire to make it burn up. ၂။ (ကမ႓ာ့ ေလထုအတြင္း ဝင္ေရာက္လာေသာ အရာဝတၳဳ) မီးေလာင္ပ်က္စီး သည္။ ❏ burn sb up [ PHRV ] ( US infml ) ေဒါသထြက္ေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ ❏ burn sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ မီး႐ိႈ႕ပစ္လိုက္သည္။ burn up all the garden rubbish. ၂။ ေလာင္စာအျဖစ္ သံုးပစ္လိုက္ သည္။ burn up calories.

Examples

1. A fire was burning in the hearth.
2. The flames seemed to burn even brighter.
3. Homes were burning all over the village.
4. The truck had been burning for some time.
5. Demonstrators burned flags outside the embassy.
6. [burn a hole in something] : The cigarette burnt a hole in her blouse.
7. [burn something to the ground] : The city of Tortona was burnt to the ground.
8. According to early reports
9. many people were burnt to death in their beds.
10. Have you burnt the toast again?
11. The sand was so hot it burnt my feet.
12. Wear a hat so you don’t burn your neck.
13. Jets burn less fuel the higher they go.
14. You’re not allowed to burn coal in this area.
15. To change your body shape you need to burn calories.
16. Fat-burning exercises
17. The acid had burnt a hole in my sweater.
18. The antiseptic really burned when I rubbed it on.
19. The whisky burned his throat as it went down.
20. [burn with] : I was burning with curiosity
21. but didn’t dare ask what happened.
22. [burn to do something] : I was burning to know how he had got on in New York.
23. Sara left all the lights burning.