insistent
/ɪnˈsɪst(ə)nt/
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ɪn - ˈsɪstənt -> insistent
၁။ ~ (on sth) အပြင်းအထန် တောင်းဆိုသည်။ မရအရ တောင်းဆိုသည်။ ‘You really must tell him!’ ‘All right, if you insist. ’ ❍ I insist on your taking/ insist that you take immediate action to put this right.
၂။ ~ on/ upon (doing) sth မရမကတောင်းဆိုသည်။ I always insist on/ upon wholemeal bread. ❍ (fig ) She will insist on getting up early and playing her radio very loud (ie She always does this, causing annoyance). [ဥ] သူဟာ အစဉ်တစိုက် စောစောထပြီး ရေဒီယိုကို ကျယ်ကျယ်လောင်လောင် ဖွင့်တော့တာပဲ။
၃။ ~ (on sth) ခိုင်ခိုင်မာမာ ပြောသည်။ မလျှော့ တမ်းပြောသည်။ She kept insisting on her innocence/ insisting that she was innocent. ❍ ‘But we have the right to stay!’ Laura insisted.
❏ insistent /-ǝnt/ adj
၁။ ~ (about/ on/ upon sth); ~ (that…) မရမကတောင်းဆိုသော။ ခိုင်ခိုင်မာမာ ပြောသော။ မလျှော့သော။ She didn't want to go but her brother was insistent. ❍ They were insistent on having a proper contract. ❍ He was most insistent that he never used the word ‘traitor’.
၂။ ထပ်တလဲလဲ တောင်းဆိုသော။ ကျယ်ကျယ်လောင်လောင် မြည်သော။ insistent demands for higher wages ❍ the insistent horn phrase in the third movement.
❏ insistence /-ǝns/ n [U] ~ (on/ upon sth); (that…) မရမက တောင်းဆိုခြင်း။ their insistence on stricd standards of behaviour ❍ At her insistence the matter was dropped. insistently adv
- You must see a doctor immediately – I insist.
- [insist (that)] : She insisted that we stay at her house instead of a hotel.
- [insist on] : Some companies insist on staff undergoing regular medical checks.
- [insist (that)] : The school insists that it is doing everything it can to cooperate.
- [insist on] : He has insisted on his innocence from the beginning.
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