Love affair

Definition

love / lʌv / n ၁။ [U] ခ်စ္ျခင္း။ ေမတၱာ။ သံေယာဇဥ္။ a mother’s love for her children ❍ love of one’s country ❍ He shows little love towards her. ❍ Give my love to your sister. Compare HATE ၂။ [U] အခ်စ္။ ခ်စ္ျခင္း။ ေမတၱာ။ a love song/story ❍ It was love at first sight (ie They were attracted to each other the first time they met). ❍ Their love has cooled. ၃။ [U, sing] ခံုမင္ႏွစ္သက္ျခင္း။ a love of learning / adventure / nature. ၄။ [C] (က) အခ်စ္။ ခ်စ္သူ။ Take care, my love. ❍ She was the love of my life. (ခ) စြဲလမ္းျခင္း။ ႀကိဳက္ျခင္း။ She’s fond of all sports, but tennis is her first/greatest love. ၅။ [C] ( infml esp Brit ) (ေဖာ္ေရြသည့္ သေဘာျဖင့္ သံုးေသာအာလုပ္စကား)။ Mind your head, love! ၆။ [U] (တင္းနစ္ပြဲတြင္) သုည။ She won the first set six-love/six games to love. v ၁။ ခ်စ္သည္။ love one’s parents/country/wife. ၂။ ခံုမင္သည္။ ႏွစ္သက္သည္။ ဝါသနာပါသည္။ ဝမ္းသာသည္။ သေဘာက်သည္။ She’s always loved horses. ❍ Children love to play / love playing. ❍ We’d love you to come to dinner. ❍ I love him reading to me in bed. ❏ be in love (with sb) [ IDM ] ေမတၱာရိွေနသည္။ I’m deeply/madly in love with her. ❏ be in love with sth [ IDM ] ႀကိဳက္သည္။ သေဘာက်သည္။ He’s in love with the sound of his own voice (ie talks too much). ❏ fall in love (with sb/sth) [ IDM ] သေဘာေတြ႕သည္။ မေနာေခြ႕သည္။ fall in love with Venice. ❏ (just) for love / for the love of sth [ IDM ] ေစတနာ့ ဝန္ထမ္းသက္သက္။ They’re all volunteers, doing it just for the love of the thing. ❏ for the love of God, etc [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ (တိုက္တြန္း ေျပာဆိုသည့္စကား)။ For the love of God let’s get out of here! ၂။ (အံ့ဩျခင္း၊ စိတ္ဆိုးျခင္းေဖာ္ျပေသာ စကား)။ ❏ love affair n တြဲခုတ္ျခင္း။ အခ်စ္ဇာတ္ခင္းျခင္း။ ❏ love-child n ( pl -children ) ( euph ) တရားဝင္ လက္မထပ္ဘဲ ရရိွသည့္ ကေလး။ ❏ love-hate relationship n မုန္း-ခ်စ္သံေယာဇဥ္။ ❏ loveless adj ေမတၱာေခါင္းပါးေသာ။ a loveless marriage. ❏ love-letter n ရည္းစားစာ။ ❏ love-match n ေမတၱာစစ္ျဖင့္ လက္ထပ္ျခင္း။ ❏ make love (to sb) [ IDM ] သံဝါသျပဳသည္။ ကိုယ္လက္ ႏီွးေႏွာသည္။ We made love (to each other). ❏ not for love or money [ IDM ] လံုးဝ။ မည္သည့္ နည္းႏွင့္မွ်။ We couldn’t find a hotel room for love or money. ❏ there’s little/no love lost between A and B [ IDM ] ရွားေစာင္းေစးႏွင့္ မ်က္ေခ်း။ There’s never been much love lost between her and her sister.

Examples

1. I love you.
2. We love each other
3. and we’re going to get married.
4. She loved her children with all her heart.
5. [love someone dearly] : I’ve known Jack for years and I love him dearly.
6. She went back to the country she loved.
7. Those who love money will never find happiness.
8. Lucy loves chocolate.
9. We went to Corfu last year and loved it.
10. I’ve been retired for a year now and I’m loving every minute of it.
11. I would love a glass of wine (=would like one very much).
12. [love to do something] : I would love to see them again.
13. [love doing something] : Ben loves playing the piano.
14. [love nothing more/better than] : I love nothing better than having a really good meal with a few close friends.