Thursday, September 06, 2012

မွားတတ္တဲ့အမွားမ်ား

အဂၤလိပ္စာဟာ မိခင္ဘာသာစကားမဟုတ္တဲ့အတြက္ေၾကာင့္ ဗမာလိုေတြး၊ မိခင္ဘာသာလိုေတြးၿပီး အဂၤလိပ္လိုေျပာရာေရးရာမွာ သူတို႔နားထဲ ကန္႔လန္႔၀င္သြားတဲ့ စကားေတြရွိပါတယ္။ သဒၵါအမွားမဟုတ္ေသာ္ျငားလည္း သူတို႔ေျပာေလ့ေျပာထ မရွိတာမ်ိဳးေတြပါ။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ ခဏခဏေနာက္ေျပာင္ေျပာေနတဲ့ အဂၤလိပ္ႀကီးရဲ႕ “ကၽြႏ္ုပ္ကိုေရခ်မ္းခ်မ္းတစ္ခြက္ေပးပါ” လိုမ်ိဳးေတြျဖစ္တတ္ပါတယ္။ ေအာက္မွာေပးထားတာေလးေတြက တ႐ုတ္လူမ်ိဳးေတြမွားတတ္တာေတြပါ။ ဗမာေတြလည္း သူတို႔လိုမမွားေအာင္ရွာေဖြတင္ျပေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။
ခုႏွစ္နာရီ နဲ႔မိနစ္ႏွစ္ဆယ္ရွိၿပီ။
Chinese Style          It's seven twenty o'clock.
American Style        It's seven twenty.
ကုတ္အက်ႌၿပဲသြားတယ္။
Chinese Style          Your coat is broken.
American Style        Your coat is torn.
ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ဆူဇန္အမွားမလုပ္ခဲ့ဘူး။
Chinese Style          Susan didn't make a fault anyway.
American Style        Susan didn't make a mistake anyway.
ဒီစာေလးပို႔ေပးလို႔ရမလား။ သိပ္ရတာေပါ့။
Chinese Style          Would you mind posting this letter for me ? Yes, certainly.
American Style        Would you mind mailing this letter for me? Of course not. OR ( Not at all )
သူပိုေကာင္းလာတယ္။/ပိုေတာ္လာတယ္။
Chinese Style          He becomes better.
American Style        He got better.
မနက္ျဖန္နားေထာင္မႈစြမ္းရည္စာေမးပြဲရွိတယ္။
Chinese Style                   We'll have a hearing test tomorrow.
American Style        We'll have a listening test tomorrow.
ခင္ဗ်ားအားလပ္ခြင့္ရက္ရွည္ယူဖို႔  ကၽြန္ေတာ္အႀကံေပးခ်င္တယ္။
Chinese Style          I recommend you to take a long vacation.
American Style        I recommend that you take a long vacation.
ေနာက္ဆံုးဘတ္စ္ကား ၁၁ နာရီမွာထြက္တယ္။ အခု ၁၁ နာရီထိုးေတာ့မယ္။ ျမန္ျမန္လုပ္။
Chinese Style                   The last bus leaves at eleven o'clock. It's about eleven now, Hurry up!
American Style        The last bus leaves at eleven o'clock. It's nearly (almost) eleven now, Hurry up!
အျပင္မွာ လင္းေနတုန္းပဲ။
Chinese Style          It was still bright outside.
American Style        It was still light.
ဒီကိုလာ။
Chinese Style          Come to here.
American Style        Come here.
ပံုမွန္အားျဖင့္ေတာ့ အေမရိကန္ေက်ာင္းသားေတြ ယူနီေဖာင္းမ၀တ္ၾကဘူး။
Chinese Style          Common students in US don't wear a uniform.
American Style        The average students in US don't wear a uniform.
ဒီအသုပ္ဘယ္သူသုပ္တာလဲ။
Chinese Style          Who cooked this salad?
American Style        Who made this salad?
ကၽြန္ေတာ္နဲမတူတာက သူကအဂၤလိပ္စာကၽြမ္းတယ္။
Chinese Style          Different from me, she is proficient in English.
American Style        Unlike me, she is proficient in English.
ဒါကိုကေလးေလးေတြနားလည္ဖို႔ခက္တယ္။
Chinese Style          Little children are difficult to understand that.
American Style        It is difficult for children to understand that.
ျမက္ခင္းေပၚမနင္းရ။
Chinese Style          Don't step on the grass.
American Style        Keep off the grass.
တစ္လမွာႏွစ္ႀကိမ္ လစာရတယ္။
Chinese Style          I get my salary twice a month.
American Style        I get paid twice a month.
တစ္ခုခုေသာက္မလား။
Chinese Style          Would you like a drink?
American Style        Would you like something to drink?
ေသြးခုန္ႏႈန္း တိုင္း/စမ္း ပါရေစ။
Chinese Style          Let me examine your pulse.
American Style        Let me feel your pulse.
ကၽြန္ေတာ္အားကစားမွာသိပ္အျဖစ္မရွိဘူး။
Chinese Style          I have no exercise talent.
American Style        I am not athletic.
ငါ့ကိုအမ်ားႀကီးမေမွ်ာ္လင့္နဲ႔။
Chinese Style          Don't expect me too much.
American Style        Don't expect too much from (of) me.
ဦးထုပ္အိမ္ထဲမွာက်န္ခဲ့တယ္။
Chinese Style          I forget my hat in the house.
American Style        I left my hat in the house.
ပိုက္ဆံနည္းနည္းေလာက္ေခ်းပါလင္းရာ။ ဆိုပါစို႔ ေဒၚလာ ၅၀၀ ေလာက္ေပါ့။
Chinese Style          Lend me some money, for instance 500 dollars, Lin
American Style        Lend me some money, say 500 dollars, Lin
ကၽြန္ေတာ္အားေနတယ္။
Chinese Style          I have a free time.
American Style        I am free.
ေနက အေရွ႕ဖက္ကထြက္တယ္။
Chinese Style          The sun rises from the East.
American Style        The sun rises in the East.
သူခိုးကျပတင္းေပါက္က၀င္လာတယ္။
Chinese Style          The thief got in from the window.
American Style        The thief got in through the window.
ေရးသားသူ - ဇာနည္(MyWay!)
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