Insist

Definition

insist /Çn'sÇst/ v ၁။ ~ (on sth) အျပင္းအထန္ ေတာင္းဆိုသည္။ မရအရ ေတာင္းဆိုသည္။ ‘You really must tell him!’ ‘All right, if you insist. ’ ❍ I insist on your taking/ insist that you take immediate action to put this right. ၂။ ~ on/ upon (doing) sth မရမကေတာင္းဆိုသည္။ I always insist on/ upon wholemeal bread. ❍ ( fig ) She will insist on getting up early and playing her radio very loud (ie She always does this, causing annoyance). [ဥ] သူဟာ အစဥ္တစိုက္ ေစာေစာထၿပီး ေရဒီယိုကို က်ယ္က်ယ္ေလာင္ေလာင္ ဖြင့္ေတာ့တာပဲ။ ၃။ ~ (on sth) ခိုင္ခိုင္မာမာ ေျပာသည္။ မေလွ်ာ့ တမ္းေျပာသည္။ She kept insisting on her innocence/ insisting that she was innocent. ❍ ‘But we have the right to stay!’ Laura insisted. ❏ insistent /-ǝnt/ adj ၁။ ~ (about/ on/ upon sth); ~ (that…) မရမကေတာင္းဆိုေသာ။ ခိုင္ခိုင္မာမာ ေျပာေသာ။ မေလွ်ာ့ေသာ။ She didn't want to go but her brother was insistent. ❍ They were insistent on having a proper contract. ❍ He was most insistent that he never used the word ‘traitor’. ၂။ ထပ္တလဲလဲ ေတာင္းဆိုေသာ။ က်ယ္က်ယ္ေလာင္ေလာင္ ျမည္ေသာ။ insistent demands for higher wages ❍ the insistent horn phrase in the third movement. ❏ insistence /-ǝns/ n [U] ~ (on/ upon sth); (that…) မရမက ေတာင္းဆိုျခင္း။ their insistence on stricd standards of behaviour ❍ At her insistence the matter was dropped. insistently adv

Examples

1. You must see a doctor immediately – I insist.
2. [insist (that)] : She insisted that we stay at her house instead of a hotel.
3. [insist on] : Some companies insist on staff undergoing regular medical checks.
4. [insist (that)] : The school insists that it is doing everything it can to cooperate.
5. [insist on] : He has insisted on his innocence from the beginning.