LEISURE

ဒီကဗျာလေးတွေကို သေသေချာချာ ကျက်မှတ်ထားမယ်ဆိုရင် အနည်းဆုံး (၅)မှတ်ကနေ (၇)မှတ်အထိ သေချာတာကြောင့် ဒီနှစ်မှ တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်တန်းတက်မယ့်မောင်ငယ်ညီမငယ်လေးများသာမက၊ အင်္ဂလိပ်စာလေ့လာလိုသူများအတွက်ပါ အကျိုးရှိစေမယ်လို့ ယုံကြည်ပါတယ်။

LEISURE

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare?

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till here mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

[WILLAM HENRY DAVIES]

Words & Phrases for Paraphrasing "LEISURE"
broad daylight = လုံးလုံးလင်းသောနေရောင်။ ကျယ်ပြန့်သောနေ့အလင်းရောင်။
streams = စမ်းချောင်းကလေးများ။ valueless = တန်ဖိုးမရှိသော။
sparkle = တောက်ပသည်။ ပြိုးပြိုးပြက်ပြက်အရောင်ထွက်စေသည်။
flashes of light = မီးတောက်။ အလင်းရောင်။ ရုတ်တရက်ထွက်ပေါ်လာသောလင်းရောင်ခြည်များ။
meaningless = အဓိပ္ပါယ်မရှိသော။ အဓိပ္ပါယ်နည်းပါးသော၊
charming = အလွန်နှစ်သက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ ဆွဲဆောင်သော။
graceful movement = တင့်တယ်သောလှုပ်ရှားမှု။ ရွေ့လျားမှု။
poor = ညံ့သော၊ သနားစရာကောင်းသော။ဆင်းရဲသော။
 

The meaning of the poem

1. What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
These lines mean that the poet wonders what kind of life it is if [we are so occupied with work leaving no time to enjoy the beauty of nature around us] there is only work and no leisure.

2.No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows:
These lines mean that life is meaningless if we have no time to stand underneath the branches of a tree and gaze the beauty of nature as long as we wish just as sheep or cows do.

3.No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:
These lines mean that life is meaningless if we have no time to stand and watch where the squirrels hid their nuts in grass when we pass woods.

4. No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night
These lines mean that life is meaningless if we have no time to look at how, in daylight, the surface of the stream reflects the sunshine and it sparkles like the stars that shine in the sky at night.

5.No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:
These lines mean that life is meaningless if we have no time to turn and look back when a beautiful girl looks at us and watch her feet as she dances.

7. No time to wait till here mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
These lines mean that life is meaningless if we have no time to see the beautiful girl’s mouth will make more beautiful in the smile which first started in her eyes.

8.A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
These lines mean that life is meaningless if we are so full of work and worry that we do not have time to enjoy the beauty of nature around us.

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