To and fro

Definition

to / before consonants tǝ; before vowels tu; strong form tu: / prep ၁။ (က) ဆီသို႔။ သို႔။ ကို။ walk to the office ❍ fall to the ground ❍ on the way to the station ❍ point to sth ❍ hold sth (up) to the light to examine it ❍ turn to the left/ right ❍ travelling from town to town/ place to place ❍ go to Majorca for one's holidays ❍ the next train to Baltimore ❍ He was taken to hospital for treatment. (ခ) ~ the sth (of sth) မွ…သို႔။ the mountains to the north/ east of here ❍ Pisa lies to the west (of Florence). ❍ cars parked at an angle to the pavement. ၂။ သို႔။ ကို။ အထိ။ တိုင္ေအာင္။ inspire sb to action ❍ bring/ reduce/ move sb to tears (ie make sb cry) ❍ rise to power ❍ a move to the left (ie in politics) ❍ He tore the letter to pieces. ❍ She sang her baby to sleep. ❍ Wait until the traffic lights change from red to green. ၃။ တိုင္ေအာင္။ အထိ။ The garden extends to the river bank. ❍ Her dress reached down to her ankles. ❍ soaked to the skin ❍ cooked to perfection. ၄။ အထိ။ count (from 1) to 10 ❍ I like all kinds of music from opera to reggae. ❍ The American runner went from first to last on the final lap. ၅။ (က) အထိ။ from Monday to Friday ❍ from morning to night ❍ I watched the programme from beginning to end. ❍ The old King's servant was faithful to the end/ last. (ခ) (ေရာက္) ဖို႔၊ ရန္။ How long is it to lunch? ❍ only 8 more days to my birthday. ၆။ (ထိုး၊ ခြဲ) ရန္၊ ဖို႔။ ten (minutes) to two ❍ It's (a) quarter to six. Compare PAST n ၁ ၇။ သို႔။ ကို။ He gave it to his sister. ❍ ( fml ) To whom did she address the letter? ❍ ( infml ) Who did she address the letter to? ❍ make a contribution to the fund ❍ I'll explain to you where everything goes. ❍ He shouted to his friend to come back. ၈။ ၏။ ဖို႔။ အတြက္။ the key to the door ❍ secretary to the managing director ❍ the Japanese ambassador to France ❍ the words to a tune ❍ the solution to a problem. ၉။ အတြက္။ သို႔။ a threat to world peace ❍ his claim to the throne ❍ Her speech contained a reference to Abraham Lincoln. ၁၀။ ကို။ ႏွင့္။ She's married/ engaged to an Italian. ❍ She played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet. ၁၁။ ထက္။ စာလွ်င္။ I prefer walking to climbing. ❍ We won by six goals to three. တို႔ ၆ ဂိုး ၃ ဂိုးနဲ႔ ႏိုင္လိုက္တယ္။ ❍ This wine is inferior/ superior to the wine we bought last week. ❍ Compared to me, he's rich. ❍ odds of 100 to 1. ၁၂။ ၌။ မွာ။ တြင္။ ဝယ္။ There are 100 pence to the pound (ie £ 1 = 100p). ❍ There are 2.54 centimetres to the inch. ၁၃။ လွ်င္။ မွာ။ This car does 30 miles to the gallon. ❍ get 9 francs to the pound. Compare PER ၁၄။ မွ။ 20 to 30 years of age ❍ 3 to 4 centimetres long. ၁၅။ ကို။ အတြက္။ အား။ drink to sb/ to sb's health ❍ a monument to (the memory of) the soldiers who died in the war. ၁၆။ …ခ်င္း ထိမတတ္။ dance cheek to cheek ❍ Cars were bumper to bumper on the motorway. ၁၇။ ႏွင့္တြဲဖက္၍။ ႏွင့္အတူ။ sing to the accompaniment of a guitar ❍ She left the stage to prolonged applause. ၁၈။ ဆီ။ သို႔။ come to our aid/ assistance/ rescue. ၁၉။ ကို။ The villagers are hostile to strangers. ❍ She's devoted to her family. ၂၀။ (အေနခက္ ရန္၊ ဝမ္းသာရန္ စသည္) ဖန္လာသည္မွာ။ To my surprise/ delight/ dismay the Labour Party won the election. ❍ To my embarrassment, I forgot his birthday. ၂၁။ အတြက္ေတာ့။ အေနျဖင့္။ It feels like velvet to me. ❍ It sounded like crying to me. ❍ To the police, the burglary had the look of a professional job. ၂၂။ အေနျဖင့္။ အတြက္ေတာ့။ Her new hairstyle isn't really to my liking. / before consonants tǝ; before vowels tu; strong form tu:/ ၁။ ရန္။ ဖို႔။ ကို။ He wants to go. ❍ We had hoped to finish by four o'clock. ❍ They like us to arrive on time. ❍ She persuaded him to tell the truth. ❍ He shouted to us to wait for him. ၂။ ရန္။ ဖို႔။ To be able to speak openly and freely again was wonderful. ❍ His aim is to become the next president. ၃။ ရန္။ ဖို႔။ the determination to succeed ❍ the desire/ wish to study medicine ❍ the right to reply ❍ be happy to see sb ❍ be unwilling to continue ❍ be ready to leave. ၄။ ရန္။ ဖို႔။ They came (in order) to wish me luck. ❍ She's working hard to earn money for her holiday. ❍ Our products are made to last. ၅။ ရန္။ ဖို႔။ I reached the station (only) to discover that my train had already left. ❍ She looked through the window to see her husband asleep in his chair. ၆။ မည္။ မယ္။ I don't know what to say. ❍ Can you tell me where to find a bank? ၇။ ရန္။ ဖို႔။ too hot to go out ❍ driving too fast to be able to stop in time. ၈။ ( fml ) မည္။ မယ္။ You are not to talk during the exam. ❍ She was to be here at 8.30 but she didn't arrive. ၉။ ရန္။ ဖို႔။ I'd like to play chess but I don't know how to (ie play). ❍ I told him to buy some milk but he forgot to (ie buy some milk). adv part (usu of a door) ပိတ္သည္အထိ။ ပိတ္လ်က္။ ❏ to and fro [ IDM ] ေခါက္တံု႔ေခါက္ျပန္။ walking to and fro ❍ journeys to and fro between London and Paris.

Examples

1. I hope to see you next week.
2. The system is easy to understand.
3. I didn’t know what to say.
4. Hattersley’s decision to retire from politics was not completely unexpected.
5. Nobody came to help me.
6. I am writing to thank you for your generous gift.
7. To call security
8. just press this button here.
9. [in order to do something] : I gave English lessons in order to earn some extra money.
10. You don’t need to come if you don’t want to.
11. She rushed to the phone.
12. There are daily flights to Boston.
13. The road to the farm
14. Robert hates going to parties.
15. She’s invited me to her wedding.
16. Prizes were presented to the winners.
17. I have already explained to everyone what the problem is.
18. The President’s speech to Congress
19. Henry was standing with his back to me.
20. She pointed to a notice on the wall.
21. She looked to the left and then to the right before crossing the road.
22. [face to face/back to back] : They stood face to face
23. glaring at each other.
24. There was a large bookcase to the left of the fireplace.
25. John was sitting a few yards away to my right.
26. A large township just to the south of Johannesburg
27. They were very kind to my mother when she was ill.
28. Cruelty to animals
29. Look what you’ve done to my new carpet!
30. Industries that are harmful to the environment
31. I wonder what happened to the Knox family?
32. Linda has been a good friend to my mother for many years.
33. A political party with ties to a terrorist group
34. [related/married to] : She was married to an American lawyer.
35. Are you
36. by any chance
37. related to William Morton?
38. She is personal assistant to the Managing Director.
39. The carpet had been nailed to the floor.
40. Your computer is connected to the main network.
41. He saw that the lights had changed to green.
42. The building has been restored to its former glory.
43. Charlotte was often reduced to tears by his angry outbursts.
44. When will all this suffering come to an end?
45. An event that brought matters to crisis point
46. The animals are slaughtered before they grow to maturity.
47. The cancer had spread to his lungs.
48. How far is it from here to Oxford?
49. I’m afraid my budget doesn’t stretch to luxuries like champagne.
50. To the end of her life
51. she was a tireless campaigner for peace.
52. [from...to] : The shop stays open from 7 am to 9 pm.
53. The siege of Monrovia lasted from October 1992 to February 1993.
54. Sales increased during the 13 weeks to September 30th.
55. Only another 18 days to the final exam!
56. It’s twenty-five to twelve.
57. I’ll meet you at quarter to six.
58. To most of us
59. work is an unpleasant necessity.
60. [it seems/looks to someone] : It seems to me that there has been a lack of discipline.
61. [to my mind/to my way of thinking] : A taxation policy which is
62. to my mind
63. unfair
64. [to someone’s knowledge] : To my knowledge
65. no one knew what Melissa was planning.
66. [to someone’s surprise/delight/horror etc] : To her surprise
67. she saw that he was crying.
68. The new model will do 60 miles to the gallon in town.
69. There are 10
70. 000 square centimetres to a square metre.
71. The exchange rate is 108 Japanese yen to the US dollar.
72. Our team won by five goals to three.
73. The door swung to behind her as she went out.
74. A toy suitable for children aged three to five
75. [from...to] : The numbers from one to ten
76. [from...to] : I’ve written articles about everything from sexual morality to gardening.
77. Only about 20 to 25 per cent of the population voted for this government.
78. The answer to an important question
79. The keys to my desk
80. I awoke to the sound of birds singing.
81. Clasping the child to her breast
82. she began to weep.
83. He put a finger to his lips.