Hurry up

Definition

hurry /'hʌri/ n [U] အေလာတႀကီး၊ ကတိုက္က႐ိုက္ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ In his hurry to leave, he forgot his passport. ❍ Take your time—there's no hurry. ❍ What's the hurry/Why all the hurry? We've got plenty of time. v ( pt, pp hurried ) ၁။ (က) ေလာသည္။ Don't hurry; there's plenty of time. ❍ He picked up his bag and hurried along the platform. ❍ She hurried after me with a letter. ❍ Hurry along, children! (ခ) ေလာသည္။ ေလာေဆာ္ သည္။ I'm afraid I must hurry you now—we're closing in a few minutes. ❍ I was hurried into making an unwise decision. ၂။ (esp passive) ေလာသည္။ သုတ္သီး သုတ္ပ်ာလုပ္သည္။ This work requires great care; it mustn't be hurried. ❍ A good meal should never be hurried. ❏ hurried adj အလ်င္စလို။ ဖုတ္ပူမီးတိုက္။ a hurried meal ❍ write a few hurried lines. ❏ hurriedly adv ႐ုတ္တရက္။ ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ ကမန္းကတန္း။ a hurriedly arranged meeting ❍ We had to leave rather hurriedly. ❏ hurry on (to do sth) [ PHRV ] ဆက္တိုက္ေျပာခ်သည္။ အေမာတေကာေျပာသည္။ He hurried on to explain why he had changed his mind. ❏ hurry up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ျမန္ျမန္။ I wish the train would hurry up and arrive. ❍ Hurry up and get ready—we're waiting! ❏ hurry sb/sth up [ PHRV ] ေလာေပးသည္။ Can you do anything to hurry my order up? ❏ in a hurry [ IDM ] ၁။ အလ်င္စလို။ သုတ္သုတ္။ ျမန္ျမန္။ She dressed in a hurry. ၂။ ကတိုက္က႐ိုက္။ အေလာတႀကီး။ သုတ္သီးသုတ္ပ်ာ။ ကပ်ာကယာ။ I'm in rather a hurry this morning—can I speak to you later? ❍ She's always in a tearing hurry. ၃။ ကတိုက္က႐ိုက္။ ေလာေဆာ္လ်က္။ He was in too much of a hurry to leave school. ၄။ ( infml ) (usu with a negative) ေလာေလာဆယ္။ ေလာေလာလတ္လတ္။ I won't invite him again in a hurry—he behaved very badly. ❏ in no hurry/not in any hurry [ IDM ] ၁။ ေအးေအးလူလူ။ ေအးေအးေဆးေဆး။ I don't mind waiting—I'm not in any particular hurry. ၂။ ေလာေလာဆယ္။ ေလာေလာလတ္လတ္။ I'm in no hurry to see him again after all the trouble he coused.

Examples

1. We must hurry or we’ll be late.
2. Alex had to hurry home
3. but I decided to stay.
4. [hurry along/through/into] : She hurried along the corridor towards his office.
5. He hurried through the streets until he reached Bill’s house.
6. [hurry to do something] : The telephone suddenly rang and she hurried to answer it.
7. [hurry someone away/in/out etc] : Liz took Anna’s arm and hurried her away.
8. [hurry someone into doing something] : Don’t let them hurry you into signing anything.
9. Let’s not hurry the process.
10. [hurry something through] : The Act was hurried through Parliament just before the election.