Follow

Definition

follow /'fɒlǝƱ / v ၁။ ~ sth (by/with sth) လိုက္သည္။ Her dog follows her everywhere. ❍ I think we're being followed. ❍ You go first and I'll follow (on) later. ❍ Monday follows Sunday. ❍ One misfortune followed another. ❍ The lightning was quickly followed by heavy thunder. ❍ You should follow your treatment with plenty of rest in bed. ❍ There followed a brief lull in the conversation. ၂။ (က) လိုက္သည္။ Follow this road until you get to the church, then turn left. (ခ) (အတိုင္း) လိုက္သည္။ The lane follows the edge of a wood for about a mile. ၃။ (က) လိုက္နာသည္။ လိုက္သည္။ follow the instructions ❍ follow sb's advice ❍ I don't want you to follow my example and rush into marriage. (ခ) လိုက္သည္။ လိုက္နာသည္။ လက္ခံသည္။ follow the latest fashions ❍ follow the teachings of Muhammad. ၄။ လိုက္စားသည္။ လုပ္သည္။ follow a legal career. ၅။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ နားလည္သည္။ Sorry, I don't follow (you). ❍ I couldn't follow his argument at all. ❍ The plot is almost impossible to follow. ၆။ နားစိုက္ေထာင္သည္။ The children sat enthralled, following every word intently. ၇။ စိုက္လိုက္မတ္တတ္၊ မလြတ္တမ္း (ၾကည့္သည္၊ နားေထာင္သည္)။ Have you been following the basketball tournament? ❍ Millions of fans follow TV soap operas. ၈။ လိုက္ဖတ္သည္။ လိုက္ဆိုသည္။ Follow the passage in your books while I read it to you. ၉။ (ျဖစ္စဥ္တို႔ကို) ေျခရာခံသည္။ The novel follows the fortunes of a village community in Scotland. ၁၀။ (က) ~ (on/from sth) ; ~ (on from sth) စဥ္တိုက္ျဖစ္ပြားသည္။ လိုက္သည္။ Inevitably, an argument followed. ❍ Disease often follows (on from) starvation because the body is weakened. (ခ) ~ (from sth) (not usu in the continuous tenses; often with it and a that clause) အက်ဳိးသင့္ အေၾကာင္းသင့္ျဖစ္သည္။ အလားတူပင္ျဖစ္သည္။ I don't see how that follows (from what you've said). မင္းေျပာတာနဲ႔ ဒါကို ငါ ဆက္စပ္ ၾကည့္လို႔ မရဘူး။ ❍ If a = b and b = c it follows that a = c. ❍ She's not in the office but it doesn't necessarily follow that she's ill. သူ႐ံုးမွာမရိွတာနဲ႔ ဖ်ားေနတယ္လို႔ ေကာက္ခ်က္ခ်လို႔မျဖစ္ဘူး။ ၁၁။ …အတိုင္း လိုက္သည္။ The day followed the usual pattern. ❏ as follows [ IDM ] (စဥ္ထားေသာအခ်က္မ်ားကို မေဖာ္ျပမီ) ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း။ The main events were as follows: first, the president's speech, then the secretary's reply, and finally the chairman's summing-up. ❏ follow the crowd [ IDM ] အမ်ားနည္းတူ လိုက္လုပ္သည္။ Not wanting to make my controversial views known yet,I preferred to follow the crowd for a while. ❏ follower n ေနာက္လိုက္။ တပည့္။ the followers of Mahatma Gandhi ❍ He's a follower, not a leader. See also CAMP-FOLLOWER ❏ follow in sb's footsteps [ IDM ] ေျခရာနင္းသည္။ She works in theatre, following in her father's footsteps. ❏ follow one's (own) nose [ IDM ] ၁။ တည့္တည့္ သြားသည္။ The garage is a mile ahead up the hill— just follow your nose. ၂။ ပံုေတာ္သလိုလုပ္သည္။ မီးစဥ္ၾကည့္က သည္။ Since you don't know the language I can only suggest that you follow your nose. ❏ follow suit [ IDM ] လိုက္လုပ္သည္။ One of the major banks has lowered its interest rates and the others are now expected to follow suit. ❏ follow through [ PHRV ] (in tennis, golf, etc) ေဘာလံုးထိၿပီးေနာက္ အရိွန္မပ်က္ လက္ဆက္လိုက္ေပးသည္။ ❏ follow-through n (in tennis, golf, etc) ေဘာလံုး ႐ိုက္ၿပီးေနာက္ အရိွန္မပ်က္ လက္ဆက္လိုက္ေပးျခင္း။ ❏ follow sth through [ PHRV ] ဆံုးခန္းတိုင္ေအာင္ လုပ္ သည္။ ငုပ္မိသဲတိုင္လုပ္သည္။ Starting projects is one thing—following them through is another. ❏ follow-up n ( pl -ups ) ေနာက္ဆက္တြဲ။ The book is a follow-up to her successful television series. ❏ follow sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ဆက္လက္ အေရးယူ ေဆာင္ရြက္သည္။ လိုက္သည္။ You should follow up your phone call with a letter. ၂။ လိုက္သည္။ follow up a lead/ clue / rumour. ❏ to follow [ IDM ] ေနာက္ထပ္ (ဟင္းအမည္) လိုက္မည္။ Soup, and then steak to follow, please.

Examples

1. Ralph set off down the hill
2. and I followed.
3. [follow someone up/down/to/through/into etc] : Jim opened the door and followed me down the corridor.
4. I felt sure that someone was following me.
5. I think we’re being followed.
6. The six o’clock news follows shortly.
7. [the days/weeks/years etc that followed] : In the weeks that followed the situation was very tense.
8. [be followed by something] : The wedding will be followed by a reception.
9. We had soup followed by roast lamb with spring vegetables.
10. [to follow] : There’s apple pie and cream to follow.
11. [there follows something] : There followed seven months of hard negotiations.
12. Wild celebrations followed the announcement.
13. They were warned that if the rebels did not surrender
14. severe reprisals would follow.
15. She followed the success of her first book with another remarkable novel.
16. His eyes followed the car to the end of the drive.
17. He followed every word of the trial.
18. You must follow a few simple guidelines.
19. [follow someone’s advice/suggestion] : She refused to follow our advice.
20. [follow directions/instructions/orders/rules] : The manufacturer’s instructions should always be followed carefully.
21. We followed Joe’s directions and found the house easily.
22. Follow the signs for Lancaster.
23. Follow the road down the hill into the village.
24. The road follows the old stream bed.
25. My father’s followed the same football team for 40 years.
26. Have you been following the election campaign?
27. I couldn’t follow what Professor Hope was saying.
28. I’m sorry
29. I don’t quite follow you.
30. [easy/difficult to follow] : Their system is pretty easy to follow.
31. What one child does
32. others will often follow.
33. [follow someone into something] : She decided not to follow her mother into banking.
34. [follow someone’s example/lead] : Canada may follow the EU’s example by banning these products.
35. Other students followed her lead and boycotted lectures.
36. [follow suit] : They began to offer takeaway food
37. and other restaurants followed suit.
38. I follow the teachings of the Buddha.
39. Those who follow Christianity
40. All the murders have followed the same grisly pattern.
41. Up to now
42. ozone losses have tended to follow a two-year cycle.
43. [follow from] : Two important implications follow from this.
44. [it follows (that)] : It does not necessarily follow that all criminals come from deprived backgrounds.
45. The film follows the adventures of an ant called Flick.
46. Take a look at our list of the 40 people you should follow on Twitter.