Look on

Definition

look / lƱk / v ၁။ ~ (at sb / sth) ၾကည့္သည္။ ႐ႈသည္။ If you look carefully you can just see the church from here. ❍ ‘Has the milkman been yet?’ ‘I’ll just look and see. ’ ❍ I was looking the other way when the goal was scored. ❍ Look to see whether the road is clear before you cross. ❍ She looked at me and smiled. ၂။ ~ (for sb/sth) ရွာသည္။ I can’t find my book — I’ve looked everywhere. ❍ Where have you been? We’ve been looking for you. ❍ Are you still looking for a job? ❍ Negotiators are looking for a peaceful settlement to the dispute. ၃။ ~ (at sth) (esp imperative) ၾကည့္သည္။ ၾကည့္စမ္း။ Look at the time! We’re going to be late. ❍ Look, John! There’s Gavin. ❍ Can’t you look where you’re going? You nearly knocked me over! ၄။ (က) …ပံုေပါက္သည္။ look healthy / ill / pale / puzzled / sad / tired ❍ That book looks interesting. ❍ That looks an interesting book. ❍ You made me look a complete fool! (ခ) ~ (to sb) like sb/sth; ~ (to sb) as if… / as though… တူသည္။ …ထင္ရသည္။ ပံုေပါက္သည္။ That photograph doesn’t look like her at all. ❍ It looks like rain. ❍ It looks as if it’s going to rain. ❍ You look as though you slept badly. ❍ FEEL ၅။ မူသည္။ The house looks east. ❍ The hotel looks towards the sea. interj ၾကည့္စမ္း။ Look, don’t you think you’re overreacting? n ၁။ [C usu sing ] ၾကည့္ျခင္း။ Have / Take a look at this letter. ၂။ [C] ပံုပန္း။ a look of pleasure /fear/ relief ❍ I knew something was wrong — everyone was giving me funny looks (ie looking at me in a strange way). ၃။ [C] ပံုပန္း။ အသြင္။ The long lean look is in this year. ❍ a new-look hairstyle ❍ They’ve given the shop a completely new look (ie designed or decorated it differently). ❍ The house has a Mediterranean look about it. ၄။ [C usu sing ] ရွာၾကည့္ျခင္း။ I’ve had a good look (for it) but I can’t find it anywhere. ၅။ looks [pl] ႐ုပ္။ အသြင္။ ပံုပန္း။ She has her father’s good looks. ❏ be looking to do sth [ IDM ] နည္းလမ္းရွာေဖြသည္။ The government is looking to reduce inflation by a further two per cent this year. ❏ by / from the look of sb / sth [ IDM ] ၾကည့္ရတာေတာ့။ …ပံုေပါက္တယ္။ It’s going to rain today, by the look of it. ❏ look after oneself/sb [ PHRV ] ၁။ ၾကည့္႐ႈေစာင့္ေရွာက္ သည္။ Who’s going to look after the children while you’re away? ၂။ သိတတ္သည္။ He’s good at looking after himself/his own interests. ❏ look after sth [ PHRV ] ၾကည့္႐ႈေစာင့္ေရွာက္သည္။ I’m looking after his affairs while he’s in hospital. ❏ look ahead (to sth) [ PHRV ] ေရွ႕ေရးေမွ်ာ္မွန္းသည္။ Have you looked ahead to what you’ll be doing in five years’ time? ❏ look-alike n ခြၽတ္စြပ္။ တေထရာတည္း။ a Madonna look-alike. ❏ look at sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ၾကည့္႐ႈစစ္ေဆးသည္။ Your ankle is badly swollen—I think the doctor ought to look at it. ❍ I haven’t had time to look at (ie read) the papers yet. ❍ I’m taking my car to the garage to be looked at. ၂။ ၾကည့္သည္။ ေလ့လာသည္။ The committee wouldn’t even look at my proposal. ❍ The implications of the new law will need to be looked at. ၃။ ႐ႈျမင္သည္။ ၾကည့္သည္။ The Americans look at life differently from the British. ❍ Looked at from that point of view, his decision is easier to understand. ❏ look back (on sth) [ PHRV ] ျပန္လည္ေတြးေတာ ၾကည့္သည္။ look back on one’s childhood / career. ❏ look bad ; not look good [ IDM ] အ႐ုပ္ဆိုးသည္။ It looks bad not going to your own brother’s wedding. ❏ look bad (for sb) [ IDM ] အေျခအေန ဆိုးပံုေပၚသည္။ He’s had another heart attack; things are looking bad for him, I’m afraid (ie he is probably going to die). ❏ look down on sb/sth [ PHRV ] အထင္အျမင္ ေသးသည္။ She looks down on people who’ve never been to university. ❏ looker n ( infml approv sexist ) (ဗန္း)မွည့္သည္။ She’s a real looker! ❏ look for sth [ PHRV ] ေမွ်ာ္လင့္သည္။ ေစာင့္စားသည္။ We shall be looking for an improvement in your work this term. ❏ look forward to sth / doing sth [ PHRV ] ေစာင့္စားသည္။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္သည္။ look forward to one’s retirement / the weekend / a trip to the theatre ❍ We’re really looking forward to seeing you again. ❏ look good [ IDM ] အေျခအေန ေကာင္းပံုရသည္။ အလား အလာေကာင္းသည္။ This year’s sales figures are looking good. ❏ look here [ IDM ] ဒီမွာ။ Now look here, it wasn’t my fault that we missed the train. ❏ look in (on sb / at…) [ PHRV ] ဝင္ၾကည့္သည္။ ဝင္သည္။ The doctor will look in again this evening. ❍ Why don’t you look in (on me) next time you’re in town? ❏ look-in n ❏ (not) give sb / get / have a look-in [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ပါဝင္ခြင့္ရသည္ (သို႔) မရ။ She talks so much that the rest of us never get a look-in. ❍ They were forced to cut their prices in order to get a look-in. ❏ -looking (forming compound adjs ) …ပံု ေပါက္ေသာ။ a strange-looking place ❍ She's not bad-looking (ie She is quite attractive). ❏ looking-glass n ( dated ) ၾကည့္မွန္။ မွန္။ ❏ look into sth [ PHRV ] စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးသည္။ A working party has been set up to look into the problem ❍ His disappearance is being looked into by the police. ❏ look on [ PHRV ] လက္ပိုက္ၾကည့္ေနသည္။ Passers-by simply looked on as he was attacked and robbed. ❏ look on sb / sth as sb / sth [ PHRV ] ထင္ျမင္ ယူဆ သည္။ She’s looked on as the leading authority on the subject. ❏ look on sb / sth with sth [ PHRV ] သေဘာထားသည္။ I look on him / his behaviour with contempt. ❏ (not) look oneself [ IDM ] ေနေကာင္းပံုရသည္ (မရ)။ You’re not looking yourself today (eg You look tired or ill). ❏ look out [ PHRV ] သတိထား။ Look out! There’s a car coming. ❏ look out for sb / sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ သတိထား။ You should look out for pickpockets. ❍ Do look out for spelling mistakes in your work. ၂။ ရွာသည္။ look out for a bargain ❍ I’ll look out for you at the conference. ❏ look sth out (for sb / sth) [ PHRV ] ရွာၾကည့္သည္။ I’ll look out some old clothes for you to wear. ❏ look over sth [ PHRV ] ၾကည့္႐ႈစစ္ေဆးသည္။ We must look over the house before we decide to rent it. ❏ look sth over [ PHRV ] လွန္ေလွာၾကည့္သည္။ Here’s today’s post. I’ve looked it over and there’s nothing very urgent. ❏ look round / around [ PHRV ] ၁။ လွည့္ၾကည့္သည္။ She looked round when she heard the noise. ၂။ ေလွ်ာက္ပတ္ၾကည့္သည္။ We’re going to look round a little before deciding where to buy a house. ❏ look round sth [ PHRV ] လွည့္ပတ္ၾကည့္႐ႈသည္။ Shall we look round the cathedral this afternoon? ❏ look through sb [ PHRV ] ျမင္လ်က္သားႏွင့္ မျမင္ေယာင္ ေဆာင္သည္။ She just looked straight through me. ❏ look through sth [ PHRV ] လွန္ေလွာၾကည့္သည္။ She looked through her notes before the examination. ❏ look to sb for sth ; look to sb to do sth [ PHRV ] အားကိုးတႀကီး ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ၾကသည္။ We are looking to you for help. ❍ Many people are looking to the new council to stamp out corruption. ❏ look to sth [ PHRV ] အေလးဂ႐ုျပဳသည္။ The country must look to its defences. ❏ look up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ဦးေမာ့လာသည္။ Inflation is coming down and things are definitely looking up! ❏ look up (from sth) [ PHRV ] ေမာ့ၾကည္သည္။ ေမာ္ၾကည့္ သည္။ She looked up (from her book) as I entered the room. ❏ look sb up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ဝင္လာသည္။ Do look me up the next time you’re in London. ❏ look sb up and down [ IDM ] ေျခဆံုးေခါင္းဆံုး ၾကည့္ သည္။ ❏ look sth up [ PHRV ] ရွာၾကည့္သည္။ Look up the time of the next train in the timetable. ❏ look up to sb [ PHRV ] ၾကည္ညိဳသည္။ ေလးစားသည္။ She has always looked up to her father. ❏ never/not look back [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဆင့္ကဲ ေအာင္ျမင္မႈ ရရိွသည္။ Her first novel was published three years ago and since then she hasn’t looked back. ❏ not much to look at [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၾကည့္ေပ်ာ္႐ႈေပ်ာ္ မရိွ။ The house isn’t much to look at but it’s quite spacious inside. ❏ to look at sb/sth [ IDM ] ပံုပန္းအရေတာ့။ To look at him you’d never think he was a successful businessman.

Examples

1. Looking closely you could see traces of grey in her hair.
2. [look at] : Dan looked at his watch.
3. Susannah looked at herself in the mirror.
4. [look down/away/through etc] : If you look through this window
5. you can see the cathedral.
6. I don’t know where the keys are. I’ve looked everywhere.
7. [look for] : I spent most of the morning looking for my passport.
8. [look through/under/in etc] : The burglar had looked through all the cupboards and drawers.
9. The room looked a complete mess.
10. He looked about twenty.
11. [look like] : ‘What does your brother look like?’ ‘He’s tall and thin
12. with brown hair.’
13. [look happy/tired/funny etc] : He looked very funny in his hat.
14. [look important/strange/interesting etc] : An important-looking letter arrived for Dave.
15. [look as if/as though] : Brian looked as if he was going to cry.
16. Richard doesn’t look his age at all.
17. He didn’t look himself when I saw him yesterday.
18. It was a first date
19. and Emily wanted to look her best.
20. [look at] : John thinks that success is being rich
21. but I don’t look at it like that.
22. That new film looks good.
23. Things were beginning to look a bit gloomy.
24. [look a fool/idiot etc] : You’ve made me look such an idiot!
25. [look certain/unlikely etc to do something] : He looks certain to win the competition.
26. [it looks like/it looks as if] : It looks like Bill will be able to come too.
27. [look like doing something] : Arsenal never looked like winning the game.
28. Look! There’s John!
29. Look
30. why don’t we meet up for a drink and talk about it then?
31. It’s not a good idea to travel without insurance: look what happened to Bill.
32. Look how long it took Mel to get a job.
33. [look north/south etc] : He strolled towards the huge windows that looked south across London.
34. [look out over something] : My room looked out over the lake.