Silent partner

Definition

sleep /sli:p/ n ၁။ [U] အိပ္စက္ျခင္း။ How many hours' sleep do you need every night? ❍ I didn't get much sleep last night. ညက သိပ္မအိပ္ရဘူး။ ❍ I can't get to sleep with that noise going on. ဒီ ဆူညံသံေတြနဲ႔ အိပ္လို႔မရဘူး။ ❍ Do you ever talk in your sleep? အိပ္ရင္း ေယာင္ဖူးသလား။ ❍ The lecture was so boring that it nearly sent me to sleep . ❍ Go to sleep now—it's late. ၂။ [sing] အိပ္ေပ်ာ္ခ်ိန္။ အိပ္ခ်ိန္။ have a good sleep ❍ be in a deep sleep. v ( pt,pp slept /slept/) ၁။ အိပ္သည္။ အိပ္ေပ်ာ္သည္။ I couldn't sleep because of the noise. ❍ sleeping accommodation. အိပ္စရာေနရာ။ ❍ sleep well/badly ❍ We slept (for) eight hours. ❍ You slept right through (ie were not woken up by) the thunderstorm. ❍ I slept (ie stayed the night) at a friend's house last night. ၂။ (no passive) အိပ္ စရာေနရာရိွသည္။ အိပ္ႏိုင္သည္။ Our caravan can sleep six comfortably. ❍ The hotel sleeps 300 guests. ❏ cry/sob oneself to sleep [ IDM ] တ႐ႈပ္႐ႈပ္ငိုရင္း အိပ္ေပ်ာ္ သြားသည္။ ❏ go to sleep [ IDM ] ( infml ) ထံုလာသည္။ က်ဥ္လာသည္။ I've been sitting on the floor and my foot's gone to sleep. ❏ let sleeping dogs lie [ IDM ] ( saying ) အသာေန၊ သြား မဆြနဲ႔။ ဆင္အိပ္ရာ ဆိတ္မႏိႈးနဲ႔။ ❏ put sb to sleep [ IDM ] ေမ့ေဆးေပးသည္။ be put to sleep for an operation. ❏ put sth to sleep [ IDM ] ( euph ) (ေဝဒနာ သည္းေန ေသာ သတၱဝါအား က႐ုဏာျဖင့္) ဇီဝိန္ေႁခြလိုက္သည္။ လားပင္စင္ေပး သည္။ When our dog was very old we had him put to sleep. ❏ sleep around [ PHRV ] ( infml ) လိင္မႈေပြသည္။ ❏ sleep in [ PHRV ] ( esp US ) = LIE IN: I get a chance to sleep in on Saturday. ❏ sleeping-bag n အေႏြးထည္ခံထားၿပီး လူတစ္ကိုယ္ ဝင္အိပ္ႏိုင္သည့္ အိတ္။ (စခန္းခ်ရာတြင္ သံုးေလ့ရိွသည္။ ) ❏ sleeping-car (also sleeping-carriage ) n (ရထား) အိပ္ခန္းတြဲ။ ❏ sleeping partner (also esp US silent partner ) n ကုမၸဏီ၌ ကိုယ္တိုင္ အလုပ္ဝင္ မလုပ္သည့္ အစုရွယ္ယာရွင္။ ❏ sleeping-pill n အိပ္ေဆး။ ❏ sleeping policeman n ( Brit infml ) ယာဥ္ကို အရိွန္ေလွ်ာ့ ေမာင္းေအာင္ ကတၱရာလမ္းမ၌ ကန္႔လန္႔ခံ ထားသည့္ လမ္းကန္ သင္း။ ❏ sleeping sickness n [U] ပူအိုက္စြတ္စိုေသာေဒသတြင္ tsetse fly ေခၚ မွက္တစ္မ်ဳိး ကိုက္ ၍ျဖစ္ေသာေရာဂါ။ (ေဝဒနာ ရွင္သည္ အလြန္အိပ္ခ်င္လာၿပီး ေသႏိုင္သည္။ ) ❏ sleepless adj အိပ္မေပ်ာ္ေသာ။ အိပ္မရေသာ။ have a sleepless night. sleeplessly adv sleeplessness n [U]: suffer from sleeplessness. See also INSOMNIA ❏ sleep like a log [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကုလားေသကုလားေမာ အိပ္သည္။ ❏ sleep sth off [ PHRV ] ေျပသြားေအာင္၊ သက္သာေပ်ာက္ကင္း သြားေအာင္ အိပ္ပစ္လိုက္ သည္။ sleep off a headache/a large meal ❍ sleep it off (ie after being drunk). ❏ sleep on sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) တစ္ညတာ အခ်ိန္ယူ စဥ္းစားၿပီး ေနာက္ေန႔မွဆံုးျဖတ္သည္။ Don't say now if you'll take the job—sleep on it first. ❏ sleep out [ PHRV ] တျခားမွာအိပ္သည္။ ❏ sleep rough [ IDM ] ေတြ႕ကရာထိုးအိပ္သည္။ He'd been sleeping rough for a week, in ditches and haystacks. ❏ sleep tight [ IDM ] ( infml ) (esp imperative) ေပ်ာ္ေအာင္ အိပ္။ Good night, sleep tight! ❏ sleep together ; sleep with sb [ PHRV ] ( euph ) လင္မယားလိုေနသည္။ He's going out with her, but I don't think he's sleeping with her/they're sleeping together.

Examples

1. The baby usually sleeps in the afternoon.
2. [sleep] : I didn’t sleep very well last night.
3. [sleep badly] : We both slept badly and felt terrible the next day.
4. [sleeps four/six/etc] : Our house at the beach sleeps six comfortably.
5. New York City is sometimes called ‘the city that never sleeps’.