The Time Machine — Page 66

Vocabulary

ฉัน

chan — First person pronoun; I, me

เชื่อมโยง

chueam yong — To connect or link things together

พวกมัน

phuak man — They, them; referring to animals or objects

ใน

nai — In, inside, within a place or time

ลักษณะ

lak sa na — Characteristic, feature, or appearance of something

ที่

thi — At, which, that; relative pronoun or preposition

ไม่

mai — Not; negation particle in Thai sentences

ชัดเจน

chat chen — Clear, distinct, obvious, without ambiguity

บางอย่าง

bang yang — Something; an unspecified thing or matter

กับ

gap — With, and; connecting people or things together

สัตว์

sat — Animal; any living creature that is not human

สีขาว

si khao — White color; the color of snow or milk

ทำให้

tham hai — To cause, make, or cause something to happen

ตกใจ

tok jai — To be startled, shocked, or frightened suddenly

การ

kan — Nominalizing prefix indicating an action or process

ค้นหา

khon ha — To search for, look for, seek something

เครื่องเวลา

khrueang we la — Time machine; a device for traveling through time

ครั้งแรก

khrang raek — First time; the initial occurrence of something

ด้วย

duay — With, also, by means of; accompaniment particle

ความ

khwam — Nominalizing prefix for abstract nouns or states

กระตือรือร้น

kra tue rue ron — Enthusiastic, eager, keen to do something

แต่

tae — But, however; a conjunction showing contrast

เป็น

pen — To be; linking verb indicating state or identity

ตัวแทน

tua thaen — Representative, agent, or symbol of something

น่า

na — Worthy of, likely to; precedes adjectives for appeal

รื่นรมย์

ruen rom — Enjoyable, pleasant, delightful, and entertaining

กระนั้น

kra nan — Even so, nevertheless, regardless of that

ไม่นาน

mai nan — Not long, shortly after, in a brief time

ก็

ko — Then, also; connective particle linking clauses

ถูก

thuk — To be subjected to; passive marker in Thai

กำหนด

kam not — To determine, schedule, or set a rule

ให้

hai — To give; causative particle meaning to let or allow

ครองใจ

khrong jai — To win over or captivate someone's heart

อย่าง

yang — Way, manner, type; classifier for style or kind

สะพรึงกลัว

sa phrueng klua — Terrifying, horrifying, causing intense fear

ยิ่ง

ying — Even more, increasingly; intensifier for comparisons

กว่า

kwa — More than, compared to; used in comparisons

เดิม

doem — Original, former, previous state or condition

มาก

mak — Much, many, a lot; intensifier of quantity

นัก

nak — Very, quite; intensifier used after adjectives

คิด

khit — To think, consider, or have a thought

ว่า

wa — That; conjunction introducing a reported clause

ได้

dai — Can, could, to get; ability or past tense marker

กล่าว

klao — To say, state, or mention formally in speech

ไป

pai — To go; also a directional particle away from speaker

แล้ว

laeo — Already, then; indicates completed action or sequence

สภาพ

sa phap — Condition, state, or current situation of something

อากาศ

a kat — Weather, air, or atmospheric conditions

ของ

khong — Of, belonging to; possessive particle in Thai

ยุค

yuk — Era, age, epoch; a period of historical time

ทอง

thong — Gold; also means golden or precious

นั้น

nan — That, those; demonstrative pronoun for far reference

ร้อน

ron — Hot, warm; describing high temperature

เรา

rao — We, us, I; first person pronoun inclusive or singular

เพียง

phiang — Only, merely, just; limiting or restrictive adverb

ใด

dai — Any, which; interrogative or indefinite pronoun

อาจ

at — May, might, possibly; expressing possibility

อธิบาย

a thi bai — To explain, describe, or clarify something

สาเหตุ

sa het — Cause, reason, or origin of an event

เพราะ

phro — Because, since; conjunction giving a reason

ดวงอาทิตย์

duang a thit — The sun; the star at the center of our solar system

ร้อนแรง

ron raeng — Intensely hot, fierce, burning with strong heat

ขึ้น

khuen — To rise, go up; directional particle upward

หรือ

rue — Or; conjunction offering an alternative choice

โลก

lok — World, Earth; the planet humans inhabit

เข้า

khao — To enter, go in; directional particle inward

ใกล้

klai — Near, close; short distance from something

โดย

doi — By, through, by means of; instrumental preposition

ทั่วไป

thua pai — In general, generally, common, widely applicable

เชื่อ

chueа — To believe, trust, have faith in something

กัน

kan — Together, each other; reciprocal or communal particle

จะ

cha — Will, going to; future tense marker in Thai

ค่อยๆ

khoi khoi — Gradually, slowly, little by little over time

เย็น

yen — Cool, cold; describing low or comfortable temperature

ลง

long — To descend, go down; directional particle downward

สม่ำเสมอ

sa mam sa moe — Consistent, regular, steady, uniform over time

อนาคต

a na khot — Future; the time that has not yet occurred

ผู้คน

phu khon — People, persons; human beings in general

คุ้นเคย

khun khoei — Familiar with, accustomed to, used to something

คาดเดา

khat dao — To guess, speculate, or predict without certainty

เช่น

chen — Such as, for example, like; giving an example

รุ่นน้อง

run nong — Younger generation or junior colleague

มัก

mak — Often, usually, tend to; habitual action marker

ลืม

luem — To forget, fail to remember something

ดาวเคราะห์

dao khro — Planet; a celestial body orbiting a star

ทั้งหลาย

thang lai — All, everyone, all of the aforementioned things

ต้อง

tong — Must, have to; expressing necessity or obligation

ตก

tok — To fall, drop down; movement downward

กลับ

klap — To return, go back; reversing direction or state

สู่

su — Toward, to; preposition indicating direction or goal

ทีละ

thi la — One at a time, one by one, individually

ดวง

duang — Classifier for celestial bodies; star, sun, moon

ที่สุด

thi sut — Most, extreme; superlative marker in Thai

เมื่อ

muea — When, at the time that something happened

เหตุการณ์

het kan — Event, incident, occurrence; something that happens

หายนะ

ha ya na — Catastrophe, disaster, calamity, devastating event

เหล่านี้

lao ni — These; demonstrative plural pronoun nearby

เกิดขึ้น

koet khuen — To occur, happen, take place, come about

ลุกโชน

luk chon — To blaze, flare up with bright intense fire

พลังงาน

pha lang ngan — Energy, power; capacity to do work or produce force

ฟื้นคืน

fuen khuen — To recover, restore, revive to a previous state

มา

ma — To come; directional particle toward the speaker

และ

lae — And; conjunction joining words or clauses together

ชั้นใน

chan nai — Inner layer, interior layer of something

หนึ่ง

nueng — One; the number 1 or an indefinite article

ประสบ

pra sop — To encounter, experience, or meet with something

ชะตากรรม

cha ta kam — Fate, destiny; one's unavoidable lot in life

นี้

ni — This; demonstrative pronoun for nearby reference

ไม่ว่า

mai wa — No matter, regardless of; used before conditions

เหตุผล

het phon — Reason, rationale, logical justification for something

ความจริง

khwam ching — Truth, reality, fact; what is actually true

ยัง

yang — Still, yet; indicating continuation of a state

คง

khong — Probably, likely, still; expressing likelihood or continuity

อยู่

yu — To stay, be located, live; existence marker

รู้จัก

ru chak — To know someone or something, to be acquainted with

ดีละ

di la — Good enough, that's fine; informal expression of acceptance

เช้า

chao — Morning; the early part of the day

วัน

wan — Day; a 24-hour period of time

จัด

chat — To arrange, organize, or set something in order

ซึ่ง

sueng — Which, that; relative pronoun linking clauses

ที่สี่

thi si — Fourth; ordinal number indicating position four

นะ

na — Softening particle seeking agreement or adding emphasis

ขณะ

kha na — While, during, at the moment something happens

กำลัง

kam lang — Currently doing; present progressive tense marker

หา

ha — To look for, seek, find something or someone

หลบเลี่ยง

lop liang — To avoid, evade, dodge something unpleasant

จาก

chak — From, away from; indicating origin or source

แสง

saeng — Light; illumination from a source like the sun

จ้า

cha — Blazingly bright, glaring; intensely brilliant light

ซาก

sak — Remains, ruins, remnants of something destroyed

ปรักหักพัง

prak hak phang — Ruins, rubble; remains of a collapsed structure

ขนาด

kha nat — Size, dimension, scale of something

มหึมา

ma hue ma — Enormous, gigantic, immensely large in size

ใกล้กับ

klai kap — Close to, near, adjacent to something

บ้าน

ban — House, home; a place where one lives

หลัง

lang — Back, behind, after; also classifier for houses

ใหญ่

yai — Big, large, great in size or importance

นอน

non — To sleep, lie down, rest in a horizontal position

กิน

kin — To eat, consume food or drink

อาหาร

a han — Food, meal; something consumed for nourishment

แปลก

plaek — Strange, unusual, odd, unfamiliar

ประหลาด

pra lat — Bizarre, peculiar, surprisingly strange or abnormal

ปีนป่าย

pin pai — To climb, scramble up over surfaces or obstacles

ท่ามกลาง

tham klang — Amid, in the middle of, surrounded by something

กอง

kong — Pile, heap, stack of things gathered together

หิน

hin — Stone, rock; hard natural mineral material

ก่อ

ko — To build, construct, or cause something to form

อิฐ

it — Brick; rectangular block used in construction

พบ

phop — To find, meet, encounter something or someone

ทางเดิน

thang doen — Passageway, corridor, path for walking through

แคบๆ

khaep khaep — Narrow, tight, not wide; describing a small space

แห่ง

haeng — Classifier for places; location, source, place of

หน้าต่าง

na tang — Window; an opening in a wall for light and air

ด้าน

dan — Side, aspect, face of something or direction

ปลาย

plai — End, tip, far end of something elongated

ด้านข้าง

dan khang — Side, lateral side of an object or structure

ถล่ม

thalum — To collapse, cave in, crumble down suddenly

ลงมา

long ma — To come down, fall downward toward a position

ปิดกั้น

pit kan — To block, obstruct, bar access to something

ไว้

wai — Keeps it in place; particle indicating maintained state

เปรียบ

priap — To compare, liken one thing to another

สว่าง

sa wang — Bright, well-lit, luminous, full of light

ภายนอก

phai nok — Outside, exterior, the outer part of something

ตอนแรก

ton raek — At first, initially, in the beginning

มัน

man — It, he, she; third person pronoun informal

ดู

du — To look, watch, appear; perception verb

มืด

muet — Dark, lacking light; opposite of bright

ทึบ

thuep — Opaque, dense, impenetrable to light or vision

จน

chon — Until, so much that; indicating result or limit

มอง

mong — To look at, gaze at, observe something visually

เห็น

hen — To see, perceive visually, notice something

อะไร

a rai — What; interrogative pronoun asking about things

เลย

loei — At all, so, therefore; emphatic or result particle