The last rites

Definition

last 1 / lɑ:st; US læst / adj ၁။ ေနာက္ဆံုး။ ဘိတ္ဆံုး။ ေနာက္ပိတ္ ဆံုး။ 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။ လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ။ ၿပီးခဲ့ေသာ။ ေနာက္ဆံုး။ 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. ❍ LATE 1 , TIME 1 ၃။ ေနာက္ဆံုး။ ေနာက္ပိတ္ဆံုး။ 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။ မထင္ဆံုး။ ေနာက္ဆံုး။ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဆံုး။ 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။ ေနာက္ဆံုးပိတ္။ Sorry I'm late–am I the last? ❍ That's the last of the butter. ❍ These are the last of our apples. ၂။ ေနာက္ဆံုး။ ေနာက္ဆံုးပိတ္။ We invited Bill, Tom and Sue – the last being Bill's sister. adv ၁။ ေနာက္ဆံုးပိတ္။ He came last in the race. ❍ They arrived last (of all). Compare FIRST adv ၁ ၂။ ေနာက္ဆံုးအႀကိမ္။ 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 ] မရသည့္အဆံုး၊ ေနာက္ဆံုးပိတ္ အားကိုးအားထားရာ (အေနႏွင့္)။ I've tried everyone else and now you're my last resort. ❏ at (long) last [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုး(အၾကာႀကီး) က်မွ။ At last we were home! ❍ At long last the cheque arrived. ❏ at one's last gasp [ IDM ] ေျခပစ္လက္ပစ္ ျဖစ္လ်က္။ ေျခကုန္လက္ပန္းက်လ်က္။ ေသခ်င္ပက္က်ိ ျဖစ္လ်က္။ The team were at their last gasp when the whistle finally went. ❏ be on one's / its last legs [ IDM ] ခ်ံဳးခ်ံဳးက်သည္။ Our fridge is on its last legs – we'll have to replace it soon. ❏ the day, week, month, etc before last [ IDM ] လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၂ ရက္၊ ၂ ပတ္၊ ၂ လစသည္က။ I haven't seen him since the summer before last. ❏ every last… [ IDM ] (ရိွတာ၊ က်န္တာ)အကုန္။ We spent every last penny we had on the house. ❏ have, etc the last word [ IDM ] ပိတ္ေျပာလိုက္သည္။ ❏ have the last laugh [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုးေတာ့ အႏိုင္ ရတာပါပဲ။ ❏ hear / see the last of sb/sth [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုးၾကားရ၊ ျမင္ရျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ That was the last I ever saw of her. ဒါ သူ႕ကို ေနာက္ဆံုး ေတြ႕လိုက္ရျခင္းပါပဲ။ ❍ I hope we've seen the last of the cold weather. ❍ Unfortunately, I don't think we've heard the last of this affair. ဒီကိစၥက ဒါေလာက္ႏွင့္ေတာ့ၿပီးမည့္ပံုမေပါက္ဘူး။ ❏ in the last resort [ IDM ] မရႏိုင္တဲ့အဆံုး။ In the last resort we can always walk home. ❏ last but not least [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုးတြင္မွ ေျပာရေသာ္ လည္း အေလးထားလ်က္ျဖင့္။ Last but not least, I'd like to thank all the catering staff. ❏ the last ditch [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုးအေျခအေန (အထိ)။ fight the closures to the last ditch ❍ in a last ditch attempt to avoid war. ❏ last in, first out [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုးဝင္၊ ေရွ႕ဆံုး ထြက္စနစ္။ (အလုပ္သမားဦးေရ ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ရာတြင္ လုပ္သက္ အနည္းဆံုးက အရင္ဆံုးထြက္ရ၍ လုပ္သက္အမ်ားဆံုးက ေနာက္ဆံုးမွ ထြက္ ရသည္။ ) The firm will apply the principle of ‘last in, first out’. ❏ the Last Judgement n [sing] = JUDGEMENT DAY ❏ lastly adv ေနာက္ဆံုး။ Lastly, I’d like to ask you about your plans for the future. ❏ the last minute / moment [ IDM ] ကပ္၍။ ေတ့၍။ change one's plans at the last minute ❍ We always leave our packing to / till the last moment. ❍ last minute arrangements. ❏ last name n မ်ဳိးႏြယ္အမည္။ I don't know his last name. ❍ NAME 1 ❏ the last post n [sing] ( Brit ) စစ္တပ္စခန္းမ်ားတြင္ တစ္ေန႔တာဝတၱရားၿပီးဆံုးခ်ိန္၌ အခ်က္ေပးမႈတ္ရေသာ ခရာသံ။ အိပ္ခရာ။ (စစ္မႈထမ္းမ်ား သၿဂႋဳဟ္ရာ၌လည္း ယင္းခရာ မႈတ္ ရသည္။ ) When they sound the last post, the flag is lowered. ❏ the last rites n [pl] ကြယ္လြန္ခါနီး ပုဂၢိဳလ္၏ မ်က္ေမွာက္၌ ျပဳလုပ္ေပးေသာ ဘာသာေရး ထံုးတမ္းဓေလ့။ administer the last rites to sb ❍ receive the last rites. ❏ the last word (in sth) [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုးေပၚ။ the last word in street fashion / military science. ❏ to/till the last [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုးအခ်ိန္အထိ။ ေသသည္ အထိ။ He died protesting his innocence to the last. last 2 / lɑ:st; US læst / v ၁။ ~ (for) sth ခံသည္။ ၾကာသည္။ How long do you think this fine weather will last? ❍ The war lasted (for) five years. ၂။ ခံသည္။ 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 ခံသည္။ လံုေလာက္သည္။ Will the wood last (out) till the end of the winter? ❍ We've got enough food to last (us) three days. ❍ TAKE 1 ၄။ ~ sth (out) ခံသည္။ 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 ၾကာရွည္ခံေသာ။ တာရွည္ခံေသာ။ ေရရွည္ ခံေသာ။ ခိုင္မာေသာ။ a lasting achievement / effect / interest / relationship /impression ❍ a work of lasting significance ❍ The flowers are long lasting. last 3 / lɑ:st; US læst / n ဖိနပ္ခ်ဳပ္ရာတြင္သံုးသည့္သတၱဳ၊ သစ္သား ေျခပံု။

Examples

1. [last week/year/Saturday etc] : How did you boys sleep last night?
2. Last year the company made a profit of £350 million.
3. [the last week/month/year etc] : Over the last 15 years there has been a 50% increase in the traffic on our roads.
4. During the last hour we have been receiving reports of an explosion in the city centre.
5. The last time we met both of us had just started new jobs.
6. They’ve had only one win from their last eight matches.
7. I’m afraid I don’t agree with that last comment.
8. I had my last child at home.
9. His next book will be even better than his last.
10. I last saw her three years ago.
11. I swear this is the last cigarette I will ever smoke.
12. Fry the onions until crisp
13. and add them last.
14. Tonight’s performance is the last in a series.
15. [the last of] : When the last of the lorries had gone by
16. the street was reopened.
17. [the last to do something] : Janice was the last to leave.
18. Why am I always the last to find out about these parties?
19. [the last someone sees/hears of] : His plane disappeared into the clouds
20. and that was the last we ever saw of him.
21. I wouldn’t marry him if he was the last man on earth.
22. The last surviving copy of the manuscript
23. I hope to be among the last four in the tournament.
24. [the last of] : He is the last of his generation.
25. Who wants the last of the ice cream?
26. The last thing we need is a tax rise.
27. Hurting you is the last thing I’d want to do.
28. I’m the last person you should be asking for advice.