For better or worse

Definition

better 1 /'betǝ(r)/ adj (comparative of GOOD) ၁။ (က) သာေသာ။ ေကာင္းေသာ။ a better worker/job/car ❍ He was in a much/far better mood than usual. ❍ The weather couldn't have been better. ❍ I liked last week's programme, but this week's was even better. ❍ Life was difficult then but things have got better and better over the years. ❍ There's nothing better than a good hot bath before bedtime. (ခ) ပို၍ ကြၽမ္းက်င္ေသာ၊ သာေသာ။ She's better at science than me. (ဂ) ပို၍သင့္ေတာ္ေသာ။ ပို၍ ရွင္းေသာ။ Having talked to everyone involved I now have a better idea (of) what happened. ❍ Can't you think of a better word than ‘nice’ to describe your trip? See also BEST adj ၂။ သက္သာေသာ။ ေနသာေသာ။ I'm (feeling) much better today, thanks. ❍ His ankle is getting better. See also WELL adj ၁ Compare WORSE ၂ adv (comparative of WELL adj ) ၁။ ပို၍ေကာင္းစြာ။ You would write better if you had a good pen. ❍ She sings better than I do. ၂။ ထက္ပိုမို၍။ I like him better than her. ❍ You'll like the play better when you understand it more. ❍ The better I know her, the more I admire her. ❍ He's looking for a better-paid job. ၃။ (သင့္ေလ်ာ္ေၾကာင္းျပ စကား)။ ပိုေကာင္းမည္။ His advice is better ignored. ❍ Some things are better left unsaid. n [U] ပို၍ေကာင္းမြန္မႈ။ I expected better of him (ie I thought he would have behaved better). v ၁။ (က) သာေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ This achievement cannot be bettered. (ခ) တိုးတက္ေကာင္းမြန္ေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ The government hopes to better the conditions of the workers. ၂။ ~ oneself ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကိုယ္ အဆင့္အတန္းျမင့္ ေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားသည္။ ❏ against one's better judgement [ IDM ] သင့္ေတာ္လွ သည္ဟု မဆိုသာေသာ္လည္း။ He agreed, much against his better judgement. ❏ one's better half [ IDM ] ( infml joc ) ဇနီး (သို႔) ခင္ပြန္း။ ❏ be better off [ IDM ] ၁။ ပို၍ေကာင္းသည္။ ပို၍ အဆင္ေျပ သည္။ We'd be better off without him as a partner. ❍ She'd be better off in an old people's home, really. ၂။ ေငြေၾကးအေျခအေန ပိုေကာင္းသည္။ We could afford a car if we were better off. ❏ be better off doing sth [ IDM ] (တစ္ခုခုလုပ္လိုက္ ျခင္းက) ပိုေကာင္းမည္။ He'd be better off going to the police about it. ❏ better the devil you know (than the devil you don't) [ IDM ] ( saying ) ဘာမွန္းမသိတဲ့ေမာင္ပုလဲနဲ႔စာရင္ သိထားတဲ့ဒိုင္းဝန္ကမွ ေတာ္လိမ့္ဦးမယ္။ ❏ (feel/be) (all) the better for sth [ IDM ] ကိုယ္၊ စိတ္ ခ်မ္းသာသည္။ You'll feel all the better for (having had) a holiday. ❏ better late than never [ IDM ] ( saying ) ၁။ (ေနာက္က် ရာ၌သံုးေသာ ေတာင္းပန္စကား)။ ၂။ ေနာက္က်ေပမည့္ ျဖစ္လာ တာပဲေတာ္လွၿပီ။ ❏ better luck next time [ IDM ] ( saying ) (အားေပး စကား)။ ေနာက္တစ္ခ်ီေတာ့ ကံပိုေကာင္းမွာပါ။ ❏ betterment n [U] ( fml ) တိုးတက္ေကာင္းမြန္ျခင္း။ တိုးတက္ ေကာင္းမြန္ေအာင္လုပ္ျခင္း။ ❏ better safe than sorry [ IDM ] ( saying ) ကမူး႐ႉးထိုး လုပ္မိ၍ ေနာင္တရေနမည့္အစား အခ်ိန္ယူ၍အပိုင္ လုပ္သင့္သည္။ ❏ do better to do sth [ IDM ] … ရင္ပိုေကာင္းမယ္။ Don't buy now — you'd do better to wait for the sales. ❏ for better or worse [ IDM ] ေကာင္းသည္ျဖစ္ေစ၊ ဆိုးသည္ ျဖစ္ေစ။ It's done, and, for better or worse, we can't change it now. ❏ get the better of sb/sth [ IDM ] သာသည္။ ႏိုင္သည္။ စိုးမိုး(သြား)သည္။ You always get the better of me at chess. ❍ His shyness got the better of him (ie He was so shy he could not speak, take action, etc at that moment). ❏ get the better of sth [ IDM ] (ျငင္းခံုရာ စသည္၌) ႏိုင္ သည္။ She always gets the better of our quarrels. ❏ go one better (than sb/sth) [ IDM ] သာေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ I bought a small boat, then he went one better and bought a yacht. ❏ had better/best [ IDM ] (ပို၍) သင့္မည္၊ ေကာင္းမည္။ You'd better not say that. ❍ Hadn't we better take an umbrella? ❍ I had better (ie I think I should) begin by introducing myself. ❍ ‘I promise I'll pay you back tomorrow. ’ ‘You'd better!’ (ie as a threat). ❍ SHOULD ❏ have seen/known better days [ IDM ] အရင္ကေတာ့ ေရႊထီးေဆာင္းခဲ့ဖူးတာပဲ။ That coat has seen better days. ❏ the less/least said (about sb/sth)the better [ IDM ] ( saying ) ေရငံုေနတာပဲေကာင္းတယ္။ ❏ (be) little/no better than [ IDM ] ႏွင့္မထူး။ He's no better than a common thief. ❏ so much the better/worse (for sb/sth) [ IDM ] ပို၍ ေကာင္းသည္၊ ဆိုးသည္။ The result is not very important to us, but if we do win, (then) so much the better. ❏ that's better [ IDM ] (အားေပးႏွစ္သိမ့္စကား)။ အဲဟုတ္ၿပီ။ Dry your eyes. That's better. better 2 /'betǝ(r)/ n ေလာင္းကစားသူ။ အေလာင္းအစားလုပ္သူ။

Examples

1. She’s trying to find a better job.
2. [better than] : The results were better than we had expected.
3. [get better] : The situation is unlikely to get better in the foreseeable future.
4. [much/far/a lot better] : I can think of far better ways of spending a million pounds.
5. [little/no better] : There was a growing economic crisis in Asia
6. and things were no better in Europe.
7. Maggie’s a better cook than I’ll ever be.
8. [better at] : Alec is a lot better at sport than I am.
9. She’s a little better today
10. but I think she should stay in bed.
11. You’ll feel better when you’ve had something to eat.
12. Is your headache any better?
13. [better for something] : I had a good rest
14. and I’m feeling a lot better for it.