Diamond in the rough

Definition

rough /rʌf/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ (က) ၾကမ္းေသာ။ ခေရာ္ခရြတ္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ၾကမ္းေထာ္ေသာ။ rough ground ❍ rough hands ❍ rough material. Compare SMOOTH adj (ခ) လိႈင္းေလ ထန္ေသာ။ ၾကမ္းေသာ။ When the sea is very rough, the ferry doesn't sail. ❍ We had a rough crossing from Dover. ၂။ ၾကမ္းတမ္းေသာ။ ၾကမ္းေသာ။ rough behaviour ❍ The children are very rough with their toys. ❍ Rugby is a rough sport. ❍ That area of the city is quite rough (ie dangerous) after dark. ❍ The parcel had received some rough handling in the post. ၃။ အၾကမ္း။ အၾကမ္းဖ်င္း။ a rough sketch/outline/calculation/translation ❍ a rough draft of his speech ❍ Give me a rough idea of your plans. ❍ I'll give you a rough estimate of the costs. ၄။ အဆင္မေျပေသာ။ ၾကမ္းေသာ။ You look as though you've had a rough night. ❍ Why should I do all the rough work? ၅။ မေခ်ာေမြ႕ေသာ။ ၾကမ္းေသာ။ a rough wine/voice ❍ Your engine sounds a bit rough—you'd better have it checked. ၆။ ( infml ) ေနမေကာင္းေသာ။ မ်က္ႏွာမသာ ေသာ။ I feel pretty rough—I'm going to bed. ❍ You look rough, John. Is anything the matter? adv ၾကမ္းၾကမ္းတမ္းတမ္း။ အၾကမ္းပတမ္း။ a team that is notorious for playing rough. n ၁။ (also the rough ) [U] ေဂါက္ကြင္း၌ ျဖဴးေမြ႕ေသာ လမ္းတစ္ဖက္တစ္ခ်က္ရိွ ၾကမ္းတမ္းျမက္ရွည္ေသာအပိုင္း။ ေတာ။ be in/get out of the rough. ❍ golf Compare fairway ၂။ [C] အၾကမ္းေလာင္းထားေသာ ပံု။ ပံုၾကမ္း။ Have you seen the (artwork) roughs for the new book? ၃။ [C] ( infml ) လူဆိုးလူမိုက္။ လူမိုက္။ beaten up by a gang of roughs. ❏ be rough (on sb) [ IDM ] ၁။ ( infml ) ကံဆိုးသည္။ အျဖစ္ဆိုးသည္။ Losing his job was rough on him. ၂။ နင္ပဲငဆေျပာသည္။ I'm sorry I was so rough on you. ❏ have/give sb a rough ride [ IDM ] ဒုကၡေရာက္သည္။ ဒုကၡေပးသည္။ The new chairman was given a rough ride by certain members of the committee. ❏ in rough [ IDM ] အၾကမ္းဖ်င္း။ I've drawn it in rough, to give you an idea of what it will look like. ❏ rough-and-ready adj အၾကမ္းထည္ျဖစ္ျငားလည္း တာသြား ေသာ။ have a rough-and-ready approach to home decorating ❍ The accommodation is rather rough-and-ready, I'm afraid. ❏ rough-and-tumble n [U] အၾကမ္းပတမ္း ေထြးလား လံုးလား ကစားျခင္း၊ ဆက္ဆံျခင္း။ the rough-and-tumble of political life ❍ She found it hard to get used to the rough-and-tumble of the other children. adj ေထြးလားလံုးလား အၾကမ္းပတမ္း။ rough-and-tumble games. ❏ rough diamond ( Brit ) ( US diamond in the rough ) n အျပင္ပန္း ၾကမ္းတမ္းေသာ္လည္း အားကိုးရသူ (သို႔) သေဘာ သကာယေကာင္းသူ။ အၾကမ္းထည္ ေက်ာက္ေကာင္းတစ္ပြင့္။ ❏ rough edges n [pl] ပံုစံမက်ေသးမႈ။ It'll take a few months to knock the rough edges off the new trainees. ❏ rough-hewn adj အၾကမ္းထည္ခုတ္ေရြထားေသာ။ ၾကမ္းေထာ္ ေသာ။ a cabin made of rough-hewn logs ❍ his handsome rough-hewn face. ❏ rough it [ IDM ] ( infml ) တံုးေပကတ္သတ္ ျဖစ္သလို ေနသည္။ roughing it in a student flat ❍ You may have to rough it a bit if you come to stay. ❏ rough justice n [U] တရားလက္လြတ္ ဒဏ္ခတ္ျခင္း။ ❏ roughly adv ၁။ ၾကမ္းၾကမ္းတမ္းတမ္း (သို႔) အၾကမ္းအားျဖင့္။ ျဖစ္ဆန္းကာမွ်။ treat sb/speak roughly ❍ Add the roughly chopped celery. ၂။ အၾကမ္းအားျဖင့္။ အၾကမ္းဖ်င္း။ It should cost roughly £10. ❍ It's about forty miles, roughly speaking. ❍ I know roughly what to expect at the interview. ❏ roughness n [U] ၾကမ္းေထာ္ျခင္း။ ၾကမ္းျခင္း။ the roughness of his chin. ❏ rough sth out [ PHRV ] ပံုၾကမ္းေလာင္းသည္။ He roughed out some ideas for the new buildings. ❏ rough stuff n [U] ဆူပူေသာင္းက်န္းမႈ။ We don't want any rough stuff in this pub. ❏ rough sb up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ႐ိုက္ပုတ္လႊတ္သည္။ ❏ take the rough with the smooth [ IDM ] ေဒါင္က်က် ျပားက်က်ေနတတ္သည္။ In marriage you have to learn to take the rough with the smooth.

Examples

1. The walls were built of dark rough stone.
2. Hessian provides warm colour and a rough homespun texture.
3. Rough seas prevented rescuers from approaching the ship.
4. They covered the 30 miles of rough terrain in record time.
5. I had a rough day at the office.
6. [a rough time] : You’ve been through rough times
7. you know what it is like.
8. [a rough patch] : They were going through a rough patch in their relationship.
9. [a rough night] : I feel terrible – I had a rough night last night.
10. Don’t be so rough with her
11. James. She’s only a baby.
12. Madeline grew up in a rough neighbourhood.
13. That’s a pretty rough bar.
14. This is a rough drawing of the house I want to build.
15. [rough draft] : Here is a rough draft for you to read.
16. The customers sat at rough wooden tables.
17. I don’t know the precise cost
18. but I can give you a rough idea.