such
/sʌtʃ/
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- One strong syllable
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- Short u vowel
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US voice -> such
(det) ယင်းကဲ့သို့ (pron) ဤသို့ပင်
၁။ (က) ယင်းကဲ့သို့။ ထိုကဲ့သို့။ အဲဒါမျိုး။ ဒီလို။ He noticed her necklace. Such jewels must have cost thousands, he thought. ❍ I've been invited to an Asian wedding. What happens on such occasions? ❍ He said he hadn't got time or made some such excuse. ❍ This isn't the only story of cruelty to children. Many such cases are reported every day. (ခ) ~ sth as/that… ယင်း ကဲ့သို့။ ထိုကဲ့သို့။ ဤကဲ့သို့။ ဒီလို။ Such a disaster as this had never happened to her before. ❍ The knot was fastened in such a way that it was impossible to undo. ❍ Such advice as (ie The little advice that) he was given proved almost worthless.
၂။ ~ sth (as/that…) ယင်းကဲ့သို့။ ထိုကဲ့သို့။ ဒီလို။ ဒါမျိုး။ ဒါလောက်။ He showed such concern that people took him to be a relative. ❍ He's not such a fool as he looks. ❍ It was such a boring speech (that) I fell asleep. ❍ I'm afraid I can't remember —it was such a long time ago. ❍ Such is the influence of TV that it can make a person famous overnight.
၃။ ဒီလောက်။ အလွန့်အလွန်။ အင်မတန်။ She's got such talent. ❍ We're having such a wonderful time. ❍ I've had such a shock. ❍ Why are you in such a hurry?
pron (က) (ယင်းသို့မတိုင်မီက) ဤသို့ပင်၊ ထိုသို့ပင်၊ ဒီလိုပဲ။ Cricket was boring. Such (ie That) was her opinion before meeting Ian! ❍ She's a competent manager and has always been regarded as such by her colleagues. (ခ) ~ as to do sth ; ~ that … …လောက်အောင်(ဖြစ်သည်၊ မဖြစ်)။ The pain in her foot wasn't such as to stop her walking. ❍ The damage was such that it would cost too much to repair.
❏ as such [IDM ] ဒီအတိုင်းတော့။ The new job is not a promotion as such but it has good prospects.
❏ such-and-such pron, det တစ်စုံတစ်ရာသော။ ထိုကဲ့သို့ သော။ အကြင်မည်သော။ Always say at the start of an application that you're applying for such-and-such (a job) because….
❏ such as [IDM ]
၁။ ကဲ့သို့။ Wild flowers such as orchids and primroses are becoming rare.
၂။ …သမျှ၊ အားလုံး။ Such as remains after tax will be yours when I die.
❏ such as it is [IDM ] မြင်တဲ့အတိုင်းပဲ။ You're welcome to join us for supper, such as it is—we're only having soup and bread.
- Why did this tragedy happen here and now? Such questions are easier to ask than to answer.
- Surrender? No one would have dared to suggest such a thing.
- [just such a] : We drank Sergei’s special vodka, which he had kept for just such an occasion.
- [such...as] : On such a day as today, it’s hard to imagine that things will ever be normal again.
- [such as] : Large and important projects such as this one often take years to develop.
- [as such] : If this is not genuine champagne, it should not be labelled as such.
- How can anyone live on such a small salary?
- He has always had such compassion and such concern for others.
- If it’s such a secret, why did you tell me?
- She’s such a lovely person.
- [such (...) that] : He speaks to me in such a way that I always feel he is insulting me.
- [be such that] : Their relationship was such that they spent every possible minute together.
- [such is/was] : Such was Crowther’s reputation in the city that no one ever questioned his judgment.
- [such as to] : The countess’s treatment of her servants was such as to cause great resentment.
- [such...that] : It was such lovely weather that we decided to spend the day on the beach.
- It was such an extraordinary story that no one believed a word of it.
- [be such that] : Their confidence was such that they spent £200, 000 on TV advertising for their first album.
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