Phrasal Verbs and Idioms မွတ္စုမ်ား ၂

အပ်င္းနည္းနည္းထူေနတာေၾကာင့္ Essay အသစ္ဘာသာမျပန္ျဖစ္ေသးပါ ။ အရင္ျပန္ခဲ့တဲ့ 1. The Avenging Amateur 2. Raising a Child Costs Some $221,000 Before College ထဲက Phrasal Verbs ေတြနဲ. Idioms ေတြကုိဘဲ Post တစ္ခုအေနနဲ. တင္လုိက္ပါတယ္ ။

1. come about (that) ~ (phrv)to happen ျဖစ္သည္ ။

Can you tell me how the accident came about?
How did it come about that he knew where we were?
ဒီ phrasal verb ကုိ ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားပါတယ္ ။
When you say how something comes about, you explain how it happens.
The discovery of adrenalin came about through a mistake.
How did the invitation come about?
The financial crisis came about because we got complacent, depending on all-knowing financial experts – mortgage lenders, Wall Street sharpers, the Federal Reserve- to run our system expertly.

2. along/down the line ~ (idm) (informal) at some point during an activity or a process (လုပ္ရင္းကုိင္ရင္း ။ တစ္ေလွ်ာက္လုံး။)
Somewhere along the line a large amount of money went missing.
We obviously went wrong somewhere along the line.
He’s created problems all (ie at every stage) along the line.
We’ll make a decision on that further down the line.

3. turn out to be sb/sth; turn out that…~ (phrv) ျမန္မာလုိအဓိပၸါယ္က “လက္စသတ္ေတာ့..ျဖစ္သည္။” Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs အဘိဓာန္ထဲမွာေတာ့ ဒီလုိ ရွင္းျပထားပါတယ္။
If something or someone turns out to be a particular thing, they are discovered to be that thing. နမူနာ ဝါက်ေတြအေနနဲ.

She turned out to be a friend of my sister.
It turned out that she was a friend of my sister.
The job turned out to be harder than we thought.
The Marvins’ house turned out to be an old converted barn.
Mrs Moffat had turned out to be the perfect landlady.
It turned out that the message sent to him had been intercepted.
Until finally the last expert down the line turned out to be just another greater fool, and the system crashed.

4. as it/things turned out ~ (idm) as was shown or proved by later events (ျဖစ္ခ်င္ေတာ့)
I didn’t need my umbrella, as it turned out (= because it didn’t rain).

5. cobble sth together ~ (phrv) to produce sth quickly and without great care or effort, so that it can be used but is not perfect (ရရာနွင့္ စပ္ဟပ္ျပဳလုပ္သည္ ။ လြယ္လြယ္နွင့္ ျဖစ္ကတတ္ဆန္း လုပ္သည္။) အဘိဓာန္ထဲမွာ ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားပါတယ္။
If you cobble something together, you make or produce it roughly or quickly, by using things that are available to you.

The essay was cobbled together from some old notes.
Its author has cobbled together a guide to the islands.
He hastily cobbled together an essay from some old lecture notes.
But we can no longer abdicate judgment to them or to the system they’ve cobbled together.


6. factor sth in/ factor sth into sth ~ (phr v) (technical) to include a particular fact or situation when you are thinking about or planning sth :
Remember to factor in staffing costs when you are planning the project.
It fails to factor in marginal expenditures on window-repairing, rug-cleaning, photo-processing, cell phones, sedatives.