Wonder

Definition

wonder /'wʌndǝ(r)/ n (က) [U] ရင္သပ္႐ႈေမာ အံ့ဩျခင္း။ They were filled with wonder at the sight. ❍ We gazed at the painting in silent wonder. (ခ) [C] အံ့ဩဖြယ္ရာ။ ရင္သပ္႐ႈေမာစရာ။ အံ့ဖြယ္။ the wonders of modern technology ❍ the seven wonders of the ancient world ❍ a wonder drug (ie one that has extremely good effects). v ၁။ (က) ~ (about sth) စူးစမ္းမိသည္။ သိခ်င္သည္။ ေတြးသည္။ I wonder who he is. ❍ I wonder why she left in such a hurry. ❍ I was beginning to wonder what had happened to you. ❍ I was just wondering about that myself. ❍ 'What will happen now?' she wondered. (ခ) (အကူအညီေတာင္းရာ၊ ေမးခြန္းထုတ္ရာ၌ အယဥ္အေက်း ထည့္သံုး ေသာ စကား)။ … မလားလို႔။ I wonder if/ whether you could help me. ❍ I was wondering if you were free this evening. ၂။ ~ (at sth) ( fml ) အံ့အားသင့္သည္။ ရင္သပ္႐ႈေမာ သည္။ He could do nothing but stand and wonder. ❍ Her grace and beauty can only be wondered at. ❍ I don't wonder (that)you got angry — I would have done too. ❏ I shouldn't wonder [ IDM ] ( infml ) ငါေတာ့ မအံ့ဩ ပါဘူး။ He charges it all to his expense account, I shouldn't wonder. ❏ it's no/ little/ small wonder (that) … [ IDM ] အံ့ဩစရာမဟုတ္။ မအံ့ဩေလာက္။ No wonder you were late! ❍ Small wonder (that) he was so tired! ❏ it's a wonder (that)… [ IDM ] အံ့ဩစရာပါပဲ။ It's a wonder (that) no one was hurt. ❏ wonderful /-fl/ adj (က) ႏွစ္သက္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ဖြယ္။ ဝမ္းေျမာက္ ဖြယ္။ ေကာင္းေသာ။ a wonderful day/ person/ opportunity ❍ My holiday was absolutely wonderful. ❍ It's wonderful to see you again. (ခ) အံ့ဩေလာက္စရာ။ ခ်ီးက်ဴးေလာက္စရာ။ It's wonderful what they can do these days. ❍ It's wonderful that they managed to escape. ❏ wonderfully /-fǝli/ adv (က) အလြန္႔အလြန္။ အလြန္အထူး။ wonderfully happy/ healthy/ relaxed ❍ Everything worked out wonderfully. (ခ) မယံုႏိုင္ေလာက္ေအာင္။ အံ့ဩ ေလာက္ေအာင္။ She is wonderfully active for her age. wonderingly /'wʌndrÇŋli/ adv : She looked at him wonderingly. ❏ wonderment n [U] အံ့ဩေက်နပ္ျခင္း။ They gazed at the food in wonderment. ❏ wonders will never cease [ IDM ] ( saying usu ironic ) အံ့ဩကုန္ႏိုင္ဖြယ္။ က်ားသားမိုးႀကိဳး။ ‘I've washed the car for you. ’ ‘ Wonders will never cease!’ ❏ wondrous /'wʌndrǝs/ adj ( arch or fml ) အံ့ဩဖြယ္။ a wondrous sight. wondrously adv

Examples

1. ‘How did they find out?’ she wondered.
2. [wonder how/what/when etc] : I wonder what we can do to help Sylvia.
3. [wonder if/whether] : I wonder if they’ll get married.
4. [wonder about] : I was wondering about the best place for a holiday.
5. [wonder about] : I wonder about him sometimes
6. I really do.
7. [wonder whether/if/how etc] : I wonder whether it was wise to let her travel alone.
8. [wonder at] : It’s hard not to wonder at the miracle of a newborn baby.