Slowly but surely

Definition

slow /slå7/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ ေႏွးေသာ။ ၾကာေသာ။ a slow runner/ vehicle/ journey ❍ walk at a slow pace ❍ make a slow recovery from an illness ❍ make slow progress ❍ a tune played at a fairly slow tempo ❍ Political evolution is a long slow process. ၂။ ဉာဏ္ထိုင္းေသာ။ ထံုေသာ။ a slow child/ learner ❍ be slow at maths. ၃။ ~ to sth/to do sth ; ~ (in/about) doing sth ၾကန္႔ၾကာေသာ။ ေလးကန္ ေသာ။ ေႏွာင့္ေႏွးေသာ။ ( fml ) be slow to anger ❍ She was not slow to realize what was happening. ❍ They were very slow (about) paying me. ၄။ မသြက္ေသာ။ ထိုင္းေသာ။ [ဥ] ေအးေသာ။ The film's too slow (eg does not have enough exciting scenes, etc). ❍ Business is rather slow today (eg Not many goods are being sold). ၅။ ေႏွး [ေသာ]နာရီ။ My watch is five minutes slow (eg It shows 1.45 when it is 1.50). Compare FAST 1 ၃ ၆။ အေႏွး(ယာဥ္၊ လမ္း စသည္)။ the slow lane of the motorway ❍ a slow train that stops at every station. Compare FAST 1 ၁ (ခ) ၇။ (အလင္းေရာင္ႏွင့္တံု႔ျပန္ရာ၌) ေႏွးေသာ(ဓာတ္ပံု ဖလင္)။ Compare FAST 1 ၄ adv ( -er , -est ) (used esp in the comparative and superlative forms, or in compounds with participles) ေႏွးေႏွး။ ျဖည္းျဖည္းခ်င္း။ Please walk a bit slower. ❍ slow-moving traffic ❍ He's a bit slow-minded (ie not very intelligent). v ~ (sth/sb) (down/up) အရိွန္ေလွ်ာ့ခ်သည္။ ဖင့္ေႏွးသည္။ Slow down/up a bit—I think it's the next road on the right. ❍ The train slowed (to a crawl) as it approached the station. ❍ Output has slowed (up) a little. ❍ She slowed the car down and then stopped. ❍ All this luggage is slowing me down. ❍ Lack of investment will slow (down) our economic growth. ❏ go slow [ IDM ] ၁။ (အလုပ္သမားမ်ား ဆႏၵျပသည့္အေန ျဖင့္)အလုပ္ကို တမင္ေႏွးေႏွး လုပ္သည္။ See also GO-SLOW ၂။ ျဖည္းျဖည္းျဖည္းျဖည္းလုပ္သည္။ You ought to go slow until you feel really well again. ❏ go slow on sth [ IDM ] (စိတ္မပါ့တပါႏွင့္)တရြတ္ဆြဲ လိုက္ေနသည္။ going slow on European integration. ❏ slow down/up [ PHRV ] အလုပ္ေလာမႀကီးႏွင့္။ ေအးေအး သက္သာလုပ္။ You must slow up a bit, or you'll make yourself ill. ❏ slowly adv ေႏွးေႏွး။ ျဖည္းျဖည္းခ်င္း။ သိေႏၷ သိေႏၷ။ walk/speak/learn/react slowly ❍ She slowly opened the door. ❍ Slowly, things began to improve. ❍ You ought to take it slowly until you feel fully fit again. ❏ slowly but surely [ IDM ] ျဖည္းျဖည္းႏွင့္မွန္မွန္။ Slowly but surely her condition improved. slowness n [U] ❏ slow motion n [U] (႐ုပ္ရွင္၊ ဗီဒီယို) အေႏွး (႐ိုက္ခ်က္၊ ျပကြက္)။ a scene filmed in slow motion ❍ a slow motion replay.

Examples

1. A long slow walk to the top of the hill
2. A slow smile spread across her face.
3. Most large lorries are slow and difficult to drive.
4. Selecting the best candidate is a slow process.
5. [painfully slow] : Progress has been painfully slow.
6. I need a new laptop – this one’s really slow.
7. [slow to do something] : My boss is always slow to tell us about changes in the schedule.
8. [slow doing something] : They’re usually pretty slow in returning my phone calls.
9. My teachers thought I was a slow learner.
10. Adrian is a bit slow.
11. The first part of the film is very slow.
12. The weeks after Christmas are usually fairly slow in most shops.
13. Your watch is 15 minutes slow.
14. Cook in a very slow oven for 2 hours.
15. Slow journalism developed as a reaction to the 24/7 news cycle
16. with an emphasis on in-depth explanations of why stories matter and following them through to the end.
17. Welcome to slow travel
18. which comes to seem ever more tempting in an age of acceleration.
19. Slow journalism developed as a reaction to the 24/7 news cycle
20. with an emphasis on in-depth explanations of why stories matter and following them through to the end.