The can

Definition

can 1 /kæn/ n ၁။ [C] (often in compounds) အရည္ထည့္စရာ ဘူး၊ ပံုး။ an oilcan ❍ a petrol can/a can of petrol. ❍ a watering - can. ၂။ [C] (also esp Brit tin ) စည္သြတ္ဘူး။ a beer can ❍ a can of peaches ❍ He drank four cans of beer. ၃။ the can [sing] ( US sl ) (က) ေထာင္။ (ခ) အိမ္သာ။ v ( -nn- ) စည္သြတ္သည္။ canned fruit ❍ a canning factory. ❏ be in the can [ IDM ] အသင့္ျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ကူးၿပီး ႐ုပ္ရွင္ စသည္။ ❏ canned adj ( infml usu derog ) ႀကိဳတင္သြင္းထားေသာ။ canned laughter ❍ I can't stand the canned music the supermarkets play these days. ❏ (open up) a can of worms [ IDM ] ( infml ) ျပႆနာ ဖန္တီးသည္။ ပ်ားတူအံု တုတ္ႏွင့္ထိုးသည္။ I wish you'd never found the missing files— you've opened up a whole can of worms. ❏ can-opener n ေဖာက္တံ။ can 2 /kǝn; strong form kæn/ modal v ( neg cannot /'kænɒt/ ; contracted form can't /kɑ:nt; US kænt/ ; pt could /kǝd; strong form kƱd/ ; neg could not ; contracted form couldn't /'kƱdnt/) (used with the infinitive without to ) ၁။ (က) ႏိုင္သည္။ I can run fast. ❍ Can you call back tomorrow? ❍ He couldn't answer the question. ❍ The stadium can be emptied in four minutes. ❍ I can't promise anything, but I'll do what I can. (ခ) တတ္သည္။ တတ္စြမ္းသည္။ They can speak French. ❍ Can he cook? ❍ I could drive a car before I left school. (ဂ) (အာ႐ံုခံစားျခင္းျပ ႀကိယာမ်ားႏွင့္ တြဲ သံုးသည္။ ) I can hear music. ❍ I thought I could smell something burning. ❍ He could still taste the garlic they'd had for lunch. ၂။ (က) ႏိုင္သည္။ You can take the car, if you want. ❍ We can't wear jeans at work. ❍ The boys could play football but the girls had to go to the library. (ခ) (ခြင့္ပန္ရာ၌သံုးေသာစကား)။ ရမလား။ ပါရေစ။ Can I read your newspaper? ❍ Can I take you home? ❍ MAY ၃။ (အကူအညီေတာင္းသည့္သေဘာကို ၫႊန္းျပေသာစကား)။ (လုပ္ ေပး)ႏိုင္မလား။ Can you help me with this box? ❍ Can you feed the cat, please? ၄။ (က) (ျဖစ္ႏိုင္သည့္သေဘာကို ၫႊန္းျပေသာစကား)။ That can't be Mary—she's in hospital. ❍ He can't have slept through all that noise. ❍ There's someone outside—who can it be? ❍ MIGHT (ခ) (စိတ္႐ႈပ္ျခင္း၊ သံသယရိွျခင္း၊ အံ့ဩျခင္းကို ျပသည့္သေဘာ)။ ပါလိမ့္။ ပါ့မလား။ What can they be doing? ❍ Can he be serious? ❍ Where can she have put it? ၅။ (အေလ့အထ၊ ျဖစ္တတ္ျခင္းကို ျပသည့္သေဘာ)။ တတ္သည္။ He can be very tactless sometimes. ❍ She can be very forgetful. ❍ Scotland can be very cold. ❍ It can be quite windy on the hills. ၆။ (အႀကံေပးသည့္သေဘာ)။ ႏိုင္တာေပါ့။ We can eat in a restaurant, if you like. ❍ I can take the car if necessary. ❍ SHALL

Examples

1. ‘Can you swim?’ ‘No I can’t.’
2. Ingrid could play the violin by the time she was six.
3. The machine can translate simple messages into 24 different languages.
4. They couldn’t afford to pay for a proper funeral.
5. The UN has promised to help as much as it can.
6. Paul could hear someone calling his name.
7. There have been May Day celebrations here for as long as anyone can remember.
8. I’m sorry
9. Dr Brown can’t speak to you now – she’s got someone with her.
10. If it’s fine tomorrow
11. we can go fishing.
12. How can I work with all this noise going on?
13. You can travel from London to New York in under 6 hours these days.
14. Tickets can be bought from the Tourist Information Centre.
15. How can I possibly refuse such a charming invitation?
16. Can there be any doubt about his intentions?
17. When he slams the door like that
18. it can mean only one thing – trouble.
19. Temperatures can reach 40 degrees C in the summer.
20. Even minor head injuries can be serious.
21. The hotel can’t be far from here.
22. Surely he can’t have forgotten about the wedding!
23. You can borrow my calculator if you want.
24. Anyone aged 18 or over can vote in a general election.
25. You can’t sit there. Those seats are reserved.
26. Only the President could order the armed forces into battle.
27. Can you tell me where Mr Lawson’s office is?
28. Can I have another piece of that delicious cake?
29. Can I offer you something to drink?
30. Can I make a suggestion?
31. We can’t go on borrowing money when there’s no hope of ever paying it back.
32. These men cannot be allowed to profit from their criminal activities.
33. He can’t be here already! I haven’t even started getting dressed.
34. Of course I’m not deceiving you. How can you say such a thing!
35. I can’t tell you how relieved I am to know that everyone is safe.
36. You can guess how I felt when he said I was too old.
37. I can’t believe she told him that.
38. If he doesn’t want to come to work on time
39. he can go and look for another job.