Promise

Definition

promise /'prɒmÇs/ n ၁။ [C] ~ (of sth) ကတိ။ keep/ make/ break/ go back on a promise ❍ extract a promise from sb ❍ The government failed to keep its election promise of more arts funding. ❍ ( ironic )‘I'll never come and see you again. ’ ‘Is that a promise?’ ၂။ [U] အလားအလာ။ Her work/ She shows great promise. ❍ He failed to fulfil his early promise. ၃။ [U, sing] ~ of sth အလားအလာ။ အတိတ္နိမိတ္။ a promise of future happiness ❍ The day dawned bright and clear with the promise of warmth and sunshine. v ၁။ ~ sth (to sb) ကတိေပးသည္။ ကတိျပဳသည္။ အာမဘေႏၲ ခံသည္။ I can't promise, but I'll do my best. ❍ The president has promised a thorough investigation into the affair. ❍ The promised aid was not forthcoming. ❍ He promised to help me. ❍ You've got to promise not to tell anyone. ❍ I have promised myself a quiet weekend. ❍ She promised her grandson an ice-cream if he stopped crying. ❍ I can't lend you my bike— I've promised it to Sally. ❍ She promised me (that) she would be there. ❍ ‘Promise you won't forget!’ ‘I promise. ’ ၂။ အလားအလာ ရိွသည္။ အတိတ္နိမိတ္ျပသည္။ The clouds promised rain. ❍ It promises to be warm this afternoon. ❏ I (can) promise you [ IDM ] ( infml ) စိတ္ခ်ပါ။ တကယ္ပါ။ You'll really enjoy it, I promise you. ❍ If you don't stop messing around, you'll regret it, I promise you! ❏ promise (sb) the earth/ moon [ IDM ] ( infml ) မစားရ ဝခမန္း ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ေပးသည္။ Politicians promise the earth before an election, but things are different once they are in power. ❏ the promised land n [sing] သုခဘံု။ reach the promised land of social equality. ❏ promising adj (က) အလားအလာေကာင္းေသာ။ a promising newcomer ❍ He was voted the most promising young pianist of 1993. (ခ) အလားအလာေကာင္းေသာ။ The weather doesn't look too promising. ❍ ‘I've been called for a second interview. ’ ‘That sounds promising. ’ ❍ His cough is better now, so that's a promising sign. ❏ promisingly adv ပြဲဦးထြက္ (ေကာင္းၿပီးမွ)။ The day started promisingly enough, but by lunchtime it began to rain.

Examples

1. The police chief promised tougher action against young criminals.
2. [promise to do something] : Peter wished he’d never promised to help them.
3. [promise someone (that)] : Promise me you’ll be home before dark.
4. We always promised ourselves that we’d visit Hawaii one day.
5. [promise something to someone/promise someone something] : Relief organizations are promising aid to the country.
6. [as promised] : She phoned at 9 am
7. as promised.
8. [promise faithfully] : Ellen promised faithfully not to open her present until her birthday.
9. This evening promises to be a lot of fun.