Suspenders

Definition

brace /breÇs/ n ၁။ [C] အထိန္းအခ်ဳပ္ကိရိယာ။ a neck brace (ie worn to support the neck after injury). ၂။ [C] ( US braces [pl]) ကေလး၏သြားညီညာေအာင္ စြပ္ထားရေသာ သတၱဳ အထိန္း။ My daughter has to wear a brace on her teeth. ၃။ braces [pl] ( US suspenders ) ေဘာင္းဘီသိုင္းႀကိဳး။ a pair of braces. ၄။ [C] တြန္႔ကြင္း။ { } ။ Compare BRACKET ၂ ၅။ ( pl unchanged) (အမဲပစ္၍ရေသာ သားေကာင္၊ ငွက္) ႏွစ္ေကာင္၊ တစ္ျပဴး။ two brace of partridge(s). v ၁။ (ခိုင္ေအာင္၊ ၿမဲေအာင္၊ ခြင္က်ေအာင္) ထိန္းသည္၊ ခ်ဳပ္သည္။ ၂။ ~ sth/oneself (against sth ) မလဲမၿပိဳေအာင္ အားျပဳထားသည္၊ ထိန္းထားသည္၊ ေတာင့္ထားသည္။ He braced himself against the seat of the car as it hit a tree. ၃။ ~ oneself/sb (for sth ) အားတင္းထားသည္။ ေတာင့္ထား သည္။ Brace yourself—I've got some bad news for you. ❍ We braced ourselves for a bumpy landing. ❍ Britain is bracing itself/is braced for another week of strikes. ❏ bracing adj ေအးျမလတ္ဆတ္ေသာ။ လန္းဆန္းေစေသာ။ bracing sea air ❍ a bracing walk.

Examples

1. [brace yourself for something] : I braced myself for the results of my blood test.
2. [brace yourself to do something] : Smith braced himself to give her the bad news.
3. [be braced for something] : Financial markets are braced for another turbulent week.
4. [brace for] : The city is bracing itself for the hurricane.
5. She braced herself against the wall.
6. [brace yourself/something against something] : He braced his foot against the door so she couldn’t open it.
7. He faced the angry crowd
8. his arms folded
9. his legs braced.
10. [brace for] : The passengers were told how to brace for the crash.