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about [c'baut] (prep)
on the subject of :
အေၾကာင္းအရာတစ္ခုႏွင့္
စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍၊ ပတ္သက္၍။
We talked about our plans;
မိမိတို႕ၾကံစည္ထားေသာ
အစီအစဥ္မ်ားႏွင့္စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍
ေဆြးေႏြးၾကသည္။
What's the book about?
ဒီစာအုပ္က ဘာအေၾကာင္း
ေရးထားတဲ့ စာအုပ္လဲ။
(prep), (adv)
1. (sometimes round about) near
(in place, time, size etc):
ခန္႕။ နီးပါး။ တစ္၀ိုက္။ ၀န္းက်င္။
about five miles away;
ငါးမိုင္ခန္႕အကြာ။
(round) about six
o'clock;
ေျခာက္နာရီခန္႕တြင္။
just about big enough:
အလံုးအ၀န္း၊ အ႐ြယ္အစား၊
အသက္အ႐ြယ္သင့္႐ံုမွၽ။
2. in different directions; here and
there:
ေနရာအႏံွ႕။ ဟိုဟိုဒီဒီ။
ထိုထိုဤဤ။
The children ran about (the
garden).
(ပန္းျခံအတြင္း) ကေလးတို႕
ဟိုဟိုဒီဒီ ေျပးလႊားၾကသည္။
3. in or on some part (of a place
etc):
(ေနရာဌာနအတြင္း)
တစ္ေနရာရာတြင္။
You'll find him somewhere
about
(the office).
(႐ံုးတြင္း) တစ္ေနရာရာတြင္
သူရွိေနလိမ့္မည္။
4. around or surrounding:
ပတ္လည္တြင္။ ၀န္းက်င္တြင္။
He lay with his clothes
scattered about.
သူ႕ေဘးပတ္လည္တြင္ အ၀တ္
အစားမ်ား ျပန္႕က်ဲလ်က္
လဲေနသည္။
He wore a silk longyi about
his waist.
သူ႕ခါးထက္တြင္ပိုးပုဆိုးကို
ဆင္ျမန္းထားသည္။
(adv) (in military commands etc)
in the opposite direction;
(စစ္မိန္႕သံစသည္တြင္) မ်က္ႏွာမူရာ
အရပ္ႏွင့္ ဆန္႕က်င္လ်က္။ ေနာက္သို႕။
About turn! ေနာက္လွည့္။
Note: about
and around can often be
used
interchangeably, especially in
informal
speech and writing:
ႏႈတ္ေျပာႏွင့္သာမန္အားျဖင့္
စာေရးရာတြင္
about ႏွင့္
around ကိုအလဲအလွယ္
သံုးေလ့ရွိသည္။
There were books lying about
(or
around) the room;
He
travelled around (or about)
the
country looking for her.
be about to to be going to (perform an
action, happen):
(တစ္ခုခုလုပ္၊ ျဖစ္) မည့္ဆဲဆဲ။
I am about to leave the
office.
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ႐ံုးဆင္းမည့္ဆဲဆဲ
ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
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