Watch the world go by

Definition

watch /wɒtʃ/ v ၁။ ၾကည့္သည္။ ႐ႈစားသည္။ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္သည္။ watch television/a football match ❍ Watch (me) carefully. ❍ ‘Would you like to play?’ ‘No thanks — I'll just watch. ’ ❍ He watched to see what would happen. ❍ She watched where they went. ❍ She watched the children playing. ❍ She watched the children cross the road. ၂။ ~ (over) sb/sth ၾကည့္ထားသည္။ Could you watch (over) my clothes while I have a swim? ၃။ ( infml ) သတိထားသည္။ ဂ႐ုစိုက္သည္။ Watch yourself (ie Do not fall, do sth foolish, etc)! ❍ You'd better watch your language (ie be careful what you say!) ❍ I have to watch every penny (ie be very careful about what I spend). ❍ Watch what you say! n ၁။ [C] လက္ပတ္နာရီ။ wind/set a watch ❍ My watch is fast/slow. Compare clock n ၁ See also STOPWATCH, WRIST-WATCH ၂။ [sing] ေစာင့္ၾကည့္သူ။ The police put a watch on the suspect's house. ၃။ [C] (သေဘၤာတြင္) သေဘၤာသား တစ္ဆိုင္း၏ သတ္မွတ္အလုပ္ခ်ိန္။ (ေလးနာရီစီ အလွည့္က်ဝင္ရသည္။ ) the middle watch. မဇၩိမယံ။ ❏ keep watch (for sb/sth) [ IDM ] အိပ္ဖန္ေစာင့္သည္။ We took it in turns to sleep while the others kept watch. ❏ on watch [ IDM ] အေစာင့္တာဝန္က်သည္။ ❏ (be) on (the) watch (for sb/sth) [ IDM ] (အႏၲရာယ္ကို) သတိျပဳသည္။ Tourists were warned to be on the watch for thieves. ❏ watch the clock [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလုပ္သိမ္းရန္ စိတ္ေစာ သည္၊ နာရီတၾကည့္ၾကည့္ လုပ္သည္။ ❏ watcher n (often in compounds) ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ ေလ့လာသူ။ seasoned soap opera watchers. See also bird-watcher, clock-watcher ❏ watch for sb/sth [ PHRV ] ေစာင့္ေမွ်ာ္သည္။ You'll have to watch for the right moment to make a move. ❏ watchful /-fl/ adj ဂ႐ုစိုက္ၾကည့္ေသာ။ She kept a watchful eye on the children. watchfully /-fǝli/ adv, watchfulness n [U] ❏ watching brief n [sing] (အမ်ားအက်ဳိးအတြက္) အသင္း အဖြဲ႕တစ္ခုခု၏ ေျခလွမ္းကို မ်က္ျခည္မျပတ္ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ျခင္း။ have/keep/maintain a watching brief on local government activity. ❏ watch it [ IDM ] ( infml ) သတိထား။ ❏ watch out [ PHRV ] (esp imperative) သတိထား။ Watch out! There's a car coming. ❏ watch out for sb/sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ဂ႐ုစိုက္ၾကည့္ ေနသည္။ The staff were asked to watch out for forged banknotes. ၂။ သတိထားသည္။ ဂ႐ု စိုက္သည္။ Watch out for the stairs — they're rather steep. ❏ watch-strap ( Brit ) ( US watchband ) n လက္ပတ္နာရီ ႀကိဳး။ ❏ watch this space [ IDM ] ( infml catchphrase ) ေစာင့္သာ ၾကည့္ေန။ I can't tell you any more about it yet, but watch this space. ❏ watch the time [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္ကိုဂ႐ုျပဳေနသည္။ ❏ watch-tower n ကင္းေစာင့္ေမွ်ာ္စင္။ ❏ watch the world go by [ IDM ] (ေဘးက) ထိုင္ၾကည့္ေန သည္။ We sat in a café watching the world go by.

Examples

1. Have you been watching the election campaign?
2. Tourists watched quietly as the villagers performed a traditional dance.
3. [watch someone/something do something] : Jill watched the children build sandcastles.
4. From the hill you can watch the planes take off.
5. [watch someone/something doing something] : We arrived early to watch the players warming up.
6. [watch how/who/what etc] : Watch how well she handles the ball.
7. [watch with interest/amusement/fascination etc] : A vicious-looking dog was watching us with interest.
8. Our kids only watch videos at weekends.
9. Did you watch the news last night?
10. Millions watched the match on television.
11. I think our house is being watched.
12. Watch what I can do.
13. Watch me!
14. Watch the knife! It’s sharp!
15. [watch how/who/what etc] : You should watch what you say about my friends.
16. [watch (that)] : Watch you don’t get your bag stolen.
17. Can you please watch my bag while I make a phone call?
18. Could you just watch the baby for a minute?
19. For someone so young
20. he has already made a name for himself and is one to watch closely.