lasting
/ˈlɑːstɪŋ/
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las - ting -> lasting
(adj) ကြာရှည်ခံသော။ တာရှည်ခံသော။ ရေရှည် ခံသော။ ခိုင်မာသော။ (v[ing]) နောက်ဆုံးပိတ်နေ
၁။ နောက်ဆုံး။ ဘိတ်ဆုံး။ နောက်ပိတ် ဆုံး။ the last house on the left ❍ the last time I saw her ❍ the last question in an exam paper ❍ December is the last month of the year. ❍ She was last to arrive. Compare FIRST det
၂။ လွန်ခဲ့သော။ ပြီးခဲ့သော။ နောက်ဆုံး။ last night / week / month / summer / year ❍ last Tuesday ❍ in / for / during the last fortnight / few weeks ❍ I thought her last book was one of her best. ❍ LATE1, TIME1
၃။ နောက်ဆုံး။ နောက်ပိတ်ဆုံး။ This is our last bottle of wine. ❍ He knew this was his last hope of winning. ❍ I wouldn't marry you if you were the last person on earth!
၄။ မထင်ဆုံး။ နောက်ဆုံး။ မဖြစ်နိုင်ဆုံး။ It's the last thing I'd expect him to do. ❍ She's the last person to trust with a secret.
n the last (pl unchanged)
၁။ နောက်ဆုံးပိတ်။ Sorry I'm late–am I the last? ❍ That's the last of the butter. ❍ These are the last of our apples.
၂။ နောက်ဆုံး။ နောက်ဆုံးပိတ်။ We invited Bill, Tom and Sue – the last being Bill's sister.
adv
၁။ နောက်ဆုံးပိတ်။ He came last in the race. ❍ They arrived last (of all). Compare FIRST adv ၁
၂။ နောက်ဆုံးအကြိမ်။ I saw him last / I last saw him in New York two years ago. ❍ They last won the cup in 1989.
❏ (as) a / one's last resort [IDM ] မရသည့်အဆုံး၊ နောက်ဆုံးပိတ် အားကိုးအားထားရာ (အနေနှင့်)။ I've tried everyone else and now you're my last resort.
❏ at (long) last [IDM ] နောက်ဆုံး(အကြာကြီး) ကျမှ။ At last we were home! ❍ At long last the cheque arrived.
❏ at one's last gasp [IDM ] ခြေပစ်လက်ပစ် ဖြစ်လျက်။ ခြေကုန်လက်ပန်းကျလျက်။ သေချင်ပက်ကျိ ဖြစ်လျက်။ The team were at their last gasp when the whistle finally went.
❏ be on one's / its last legs [IDM ] ချုံးချုံးကျသည်။ Our fridge is on its last legs – we'll have to replace it soon.
❏ the day, week, month, etc before last [IDM ] လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ ၂ ရက်၊ ၂ ပတ်၊ ၂ လစသည်က။ I haven't seen him since the summer before last.
❏ every last… [IDM ] (ရှိတာ၊ ကျန်တာ)အကုန်။ We spent every last penny we had on the house.
❏ have, etc the last word [IDM ] ပိတ်ပြောလိုက်သည်။
❏ have the last laugh [IDM ] နောက်ဆုံးတော့ အနိုင် ရတာပါပဲ။
❏ hear / see the last of sb/sth [IDM ] နောက်ဆုံးကြားရ၊ မြင်ရခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ That was the last I ever saw of her. ဒါ သူ့ကို နောက်ဆုံး တွေ့လိုက်ရခြင်းပါပဲ။ ❍ I hope we've seen the last of the cold weather. ❍ Unfortunately, I don't think we've heard the last of this affair. ဒီကိစ္စက ဒါလောက်နှင့်တော့ပြီးမည့်ပုံမပေါက်ဘူး။
❏ in the last resort [IDM ] မရနိုင်တဲ့အဆုံး။
In the last resort we can always walk home.
❏ last but not least [IDM ] နောက်ဆုံးတွင်မှ ပြောရသော် လည်း အလေးထားလျက်ဖြင့်။ Last but not least, I'd like to thank all the catering staff.
❏ the last ditch [IDM ] နောက်ဆုံးအခြေအနေ (အထိ)။ fight the closures to the last ditch ❍ in a last ditch attempt to avoid war.
❏ last in, first out [IDM ] နောက်ဆုံးဝင်၊ ရှေ့ဆုံး ထွက်စနစ်။ (အလုပ်သမားဦးရေ လျှော့ချရာတွင် လုပ်သက် အနည်းဆုံးက အရင်ဆုံးထွက်ရ၍ လုပ်သက်အများဆုံးက နောက်ဆုံးမှ ထွက် ရသည်။ ) The firm will apply the principle of ‘last in, first out’.
❏ the Last Judgement n [sing] = JUDGEMENT DAY
❏ lastly adv နောက်ဆုံး။ Lastly, I’d like to ask you about your plans for the future.
❏ the last minute / moment [IDM ] ကပ်၍။ တေ့၍။ change one's plans at the last minute ❍ We always leave our packing to / till the last moment. ❍ last minute arrangements.
❏ last name n မျိုးနွယ်အမည်။ I don't know his last name. ❍ NAME1
❏ the last post n [sing] (Brit ) စစ်တပ်စခန်းများတွင် တစ်နေ့တာဝတ္တရားပြီးဆုံးချိန်၌ အချက်ပေးမှုတ်ရသော ခရာသံ။ အိပ်ခရာ။ (စစ်မှုထမ်းများ သင်္ဂြိုဟ်ရာ၌လည်း ယင်းခရာ မှုတ် ရသည်။ ) When they sound the last post, the flag is lowered.
❏ the last rites n [pl] ကွယ်လွန်ခါနီး ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်၏ မျက်မှောက်၌ ပြုလုပ်ပေးသော ဘာသာရေး ထုံးတမ်းဓလေ့။ administer the last rites to sb ❍ receive the last rites.
❏ the last word (in sth) [IDM ] နောက်ဆုံးပေါ်။ the last word in street fashion / military science.
❏ to/till the last [IDM ] နောက်ဆုံးအချိန်အထိ။ သေသည် အထိ။ He died protesting his innocence to the last.
၁။ ~ (for) sth ခံသည်။ ကြာသည်။ How long do you think this fine weather will last? ❍ The war lasted (for) five years.
၂။ ခံသည်။ The pyramids were built to last forever. ❍ She won't last long in that job–it's much too demanding. ❍ These shoes will last you (for) the rest of your life.
၃။ ~ (out); ~ (for) sth ခံသည်။ လုံလောက်သည်။ Will the wood last (out) till the end of the winter? ❍ We've got enough food to last (us) three days. ❍ TAKE1
၄။ ~ sth (out) ခံသည်။ How long can they last out in these weather conditions? ❍ He's very ill and probably won't last (out) the night (ie He will probably die before the morning).
❏ lasting adj ကြာရှည်ခံသော။ တာရှည်ခံသော။ ရေရှည် ခံသော။ ခိုင်မာသော။ a lasting achievement / effect / interest / relationship /impression ❍ a work of lasting significance ❍ The flowers are long lasting.
- [last week/year/Saturday etc] : How did you boys sleep last night?
- Last year the company made a profit of £350 million.
- [the last week/month/year etc] : Over the last 15 years there has been a 50% increase in the traffic on our roads.
- During the last hour we have been receiving reports of an explosion in the city centre.
- The last time we met both of us had just started new jobs.
- They’ve had only one win from their last eight matches.
- I’m afraid I don’t agree with that last comment.
- I had my last child at home.
- His next book will be even better than his last.
- I last saw her three years ago.
- I swear this is the last cigarette I will ever smoke.
- Fry the onions until crisp, and add them last.
- Tonight’s performance is the last in a series.
- [the last of] : When the last of the lorries had gone by, the street was reopened.
- [the last to do something] : Janice was the last to leave.
- Why am I always the last to find out about these parties?
- [the last someone sees/hears of] : His plane disappeared into the clouds, and that was the last we ever saw of him.
- I wouldn’t marry him if he was the last man on earth.
- The last surviving copy of the manuscript
- I hope to be among the last four in the tournament.
- [the last of] : He is the last of his generation.
- Who wants the last of the ice cream?
- The last thing we need is a tax rise.
- Hurting you is the last thing I’d want to do.
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