Contrast

Definition

contrast /kǝn'trɑ:st; US -'træst/ v ၁။ ~ (A and/with B) (ဆန္႔ က်င္ဘက္ခ်င္း) ယွဥ္ၾကည့္သည္။ It is interesting to contrast the two writers. ❍ contrasting his attitude and/with hers. ၂။ ~ (with sb/sth) ျပဒါးတစ္လမ္းသံတစ္လမ္း ျဖစ္သည္။ Her actions contrasted sharply with her promises. ❍ Her actions and her promises contrasted sharply (ie She did not do as she had promised). /'kɒntrɑ:st; US -træst/ n ~ (to/with sb/sth); ~ (between A and B) ၁။ [U] ျခားနားခ်က္။ ဆန္႔က်င္ကြဲလြဲခ်က္။ မတူညီခ်က္။ Careful contrast of the two plans shows up some key differences. လုပ္ငန္းအစီအစဥ္ႏွစ္ရပ္ကို ေသေသ ခ်ာခ်ာ ယွဥ္ၾကည့္လိုက္ေတာ့ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ ကြဲ လြဲခ်က္ေတြ ေပၚ လာတယ္။ ❍ In contrast with their system, ours seems very old-fashioned. သူတို႔စနစ္နဲ႔ မတူတာကေတာ့ တို႔စနစ္ က ေခတ္ေနာက္က်ေနတာပဲ။ ၂။ (က) [U] ဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္ သေဘာ။ The paper is in stark contrast to an earlier report. ❍ The contrast of light and shade is important in photography. ❍ His white hair was in sharp contrast to (ie was very clearly different from) his dark skin. (ခ) [C usu sing ] ထင္းခနဲျမင္သာေသာ ျခားနားမႈ။ The white walls make a contrast with the black carpet. ❍ There is a remarkable contrast between the two brothers. (ဂ) [sing] ကြဲ ျပားျခားနားေသာအရာ။ The work you did today is quite a contrast to (ie is very much better/worse than) what you did last week. ❏ by/in contrast [ IDM ] (တစ္ခုႏွင့္တစ္ခု သိသိသာသာ ျခားနားေၾကာင္း အထူးျပဳေဖာ္ျပေသာ စကား)။ မတူတာကေတာ့။ This generation has, by contrast, made the environment a focus of attention. ❍ In contrast, Sargent's film is more of a documentary. ❏ contrasting adj အလြန္ျခားနားေသာ။ သိသိသာသာ ကြဲ ျပား ေသာ။ မတူညီေသာ။ contrasting examples/ideas/patterns.

Examples

1. [contrast between] : The contrast between her life before the accident and now
2. In contrast to his predecessor
3. Bush has little interest in foreign travel.
4. [contrast to] : The little village was a total contrast to San Francisco.