Still waters run deep

Definition

still 1 /stÇl/ adj ( -er,-est ) ၁။ (က) ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ မလႈပ္ေသာ။ ၿငိမ္သက္ေသာ။ မလႈပ္မယွက္ေသာ။ still water ❍ absolutely/ completely/ perfectly still ❍ Please keep/ stay/ hold/ sit/ stand still while I take your photograph. (ခ) (ေလ)ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ တိတ္ေသာ။ a still summer day. ❍ QUIET ၂။ အျမႇဳပ္မထေသာ။ still cider/ orange/ mineral water. n ၁။ [C] ႐ုပ္ၿငိမ္။ ႐ုပ္ေသ။ still photography ❍ publicity stills from a new film. ၂။ the ~ of sth တိတ္ဆိတ္ ၿငိမ္သက္ျခင္း။ လူေျခတိတ္ခ်ိန္။ in the still of the night. v ( fml ) ၿငိမ္သည္။ ၿငိမ္သက္သည္။ ေအးၿငိမ္းေစသည္။ The wind/ waves stilled. ❍ She tried to still her doubts/ fears. ❏ still life n (က) [U] ပန္း၊ သစ္သီးစသည့္ သက္မဲ့အရာ ဝတၳဳကို ပံုတူေရးဆြဲျခင္း။ သက္မဲ့ဝတၳဳပံု။ I prefer landscape to still life. (ခ) [C] ( pl still lifes ) သက္မဲ့ဝတၳဳပံု။ ပံု။ ❏ stillness n [U] တိတ္ဆိတ္ၿငိမ္သက္ျခင္း။ ❏ the still small voice (of conscience) [ IDM ] ( rhet ) အမွားအမွန္ခြဲျခားသိစိတ္။ လိပ္ျပာ။ ❏ still waters run deep [ IDM ]( saying ) လူသန္မေျပာ (လူေျပာမသန္)။ still 2 /stÇl / adv ၁။ ထက္တိုင္။ အထိ။ ေသး။ တုန္း။ It's still raining. ❍ Do you still live in London? ❍ He still hopes/ is still hoping to hear from her. ❍ Will you still be here when I get back? ❍ I still can't do it. ❍ We could still change our minds. ❍ She died ten years ago, but I think about her still. ၂။ သို႔ျဖစ္ေစကာမူ။ သည့္တိုင္ေအာင္။ ဒါေပမဲ့။ Although she felt ill, she still went to work. ❍ He's treated you badly: still, he's your brother and you should help him. ၃။ (က) သာ၍…ေသး။ ပို၍…ေသး။ Tom is tall, but Mary is taller still. ❍ The next day was warmer still. ❍ It never stopped raining, and worse still, we got lost. (ခ) ပို၍ပင္။ He came up with still more stories. still 3 /stÇl / n အရက္ေပါင္းအိုး။ အရက္ဖို။ အရက္ခ်က္႐ံု။ a whisky still. See also DISTIL ၁(ခ)

Examples

1. We were still cleaning the house when the guests started to arrive.
2. Her hair was still damp from her walk in the rain.
3. The car’s doors were locked
4. but the motor was still running.
5. Is Terry still in college?
6. If we have to
7. we can still request assistance from other authorities.
8. We knew we wouldn’t win the game
9. but it was still exciting!
10. This is a short novel
11. but it is still too long.
12. I hadn’t seen him for 25 years. Still
13. I recognized him immediately when I saw him.
14. [still bigger/better/worse/more interesting etc] : The freezing cold weather made our task still more difficult.
15. It would be nice to see Audrey again
16. and it would be still nicer if she could bring the children.
17. [worse/better/larger etc still] : Greg’s medical expenses are a massive drain and
18. worse still
19. he may lose his job.