Soft- boiled

Definition

soft /sɒft; US sↄ:ft / adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ ေပ်ာ့။ soft ground/toffee/wax ❍ margarine that is soft and easy to spread ❍ She likes a soft pillow and a hard mattress. Compare HARD adj ၁ ၂။ ႏူးညံ့ေသာ။ ေပ်ာ့။ soft cheese ❍ a soft pencil. ၃။ ညက္ေညာေသာ။ … အိ။ as soft as velvet ❍ soft skin ❍ Our cat has very soft very soft fur. ၄။ ႏုေသာ၊ ေဖ်ာ့ေသာ။ a soft pink rather than a harsh red ❍ lampshades that give a soft light ❍ the soft glow of candlelight. ၅။ အိေသာ။ ညက္ေသာ။ မႈန္ေသာ။ the soft curves of the distant hills. ၆။ ညင္သာေသာ။ … ညင္း။ soft summer winds ❍ a soft landing. ၇။ ညင္းသာေသာ။ … ညင္း။ soft music in the background ❍ in a soft voice ❍ soft whispers. ၈။ ( infml ) သိမ္ေမြ႕ေသာ။ ခ်ဳိသာေသာ။ His reply was soft and calm. ၉။ ~ (on sb/ sth); ~ (with sb) ႏူးညံ့ေသာ။ ညႇာတာေသာ။ သေဘာေကာင္းေသာ။ သေဘာ လြယ္ေသာ။ have soft parents ❍ have a soft heart ❍ She's too soft on the staff and they don't respect her. ❍ Have the authorities gone soft on crime? အာဏာပိုင္တို႔က ျပစ္မႈက်ဴးလြန္သူေတြအေပၚ ညႇာတာစိတ္ေတြ ယိုဖိတ္ေနၾကၿပီလား။ ❍ He's a bit too soft with his class to keep them under control. Compare HARD adj ၅ ၁၀။ ( infml derog ) (က) ေပ်ာ့ညံ့ေသာ။ Don't be so soft—there's nothing to be afraid of. (ခ) ေၾကာင္ေသာ။ သြပ္ေသာ။ He's gone soft in the head. ၁၁။ ~ on sb ( infml ) တိမ္းၫြတ္ေသာ။ I think he’s quite soft on that new neighbour of his. ၁၂။ ( infml derog ) လက္ေၾကာတင္းေအာင္ မလုပ္ရေသာ။ ဒုကၡသုကၡကင္း ေသာ။ a soft job (ie one that is easy or well paid) ❍ He has a very soft life really. ၁၃။ အခ်ဳိ(ရည္)။ Would you like some wine or something soft? ❍ I'd prefer a soft drink. ၁၄။ (ေရ)သြက္။ Don't use much soap powder—the water here is very soft. Compare HARD adj ၁၃ ၁၅။ သံညင္း။ သံႏံု႔။ The letter ‘c’ is soft in ‘city’ and hard in ‘cat’. ❍ The letter ‘g’ is soft in ‘gin’ and hard in ‘get’. Compare HARD adj ၁၁ ❏ have a soft spot for sb/ sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခင္မင္ တြယ္တာသည္။ He's a strange man, but I've always had a soft spot for him. ❏ soft- boiled adj မက်က္တက်က္ ျပဳတ္ထားေသာ(ၾကက္ဥ)။ Compare HARD- BOILED ❏ soft drug n အေပ်ာ့စားမူးယစ္ေဆး။ Compare HARD DURG ❏ soft fruit n [C,U] အေစ့ႀကီးႀကီးမပါေသာ အသီး။ soft fruit like strawberries and currants. ❏ soft furnishings n [pl] ခန္းဆီး၊ ဖံု၊ စားပြဲခင္း စသည္ ကဲ့သို႔ေသာ အဆင္အယင္ပစၥည္း။ ❏ soft-hearted adj သေဘာေကာင္းေသာ။ သနားၾကင္နာ တတ္ေသာ။ စိတ္ထားႏူးညံ့ေသာ။ He's always lending her money—he's too softhearted. ❍ She's quite soft-hearted underneath that stern exterior. Compare HARD- HEARTED soft- heartedness n [U] ❏ softish adj ခပ္ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာ့။ softish ice-cream. ❏ softly adv ႏုႏုေဖ်ာ့ေဖ်ာ့။ ညင္ညင္သာသာ။ တိုးတိုးညင္းညင္း။ softly shining lights ❍ speak softly ❍ She pressed his hand softly. ❍ music playing softly in the background ❍ treat children too softly ❍ be softly spoken (ie have a soft voice). ❏ softly softly adj သတိႀကီးစြာျဖင့္ သိမ္သိမ္ေမြ႕ေမြ႕။ take a softly softly approach to street crime. ❏ softness n [U] ႏူးညံ့ျခင္း (သို႔) ေပ်ာ့ျခင္း။ the softness of a baby's skin ❍ criticize softness towards criminals. ❏ soft option n ( often derog ) အလြယ္လိုက္ျခင္း။ He decided to take the soft option and give in to their demands. ❍ You might think this course is a soft option but I can assure you it isn't. ❏ soft palate n အာေခါင္ေပ်ာ့။ ❏ soft- pedal v ( -ll- ; US - l- ) ~ (on) sth ( infml ) အေရး မႀကီးသေယာင္၊ ခပ္ေပါ့ေပါ့ သေဘာထားသည္။ The government has been soft-pedalling (on) the question of teachers' pay. ❏ soft porn n [U] တစ္တစ္ခြခြ မဟုတ္ေသာ အျပာ႐ုပ္ရွင္၊ ဓာတ္ပံု၊ စာအုပ္။ Compare HARD PORN ❏ soft shoulder n ( US ) = VERGE ၁(က) ❏ soft-soap v ( infml ) ေျမႇာက္လံုးပင့္လံုးျဖင့္ ေသြးေဆာင္သည္။ စကားခ်ဳိခ်ဳိႏွင့္ နားခ်သည္။ Don't try to soft-soap me— I'm not changing my mind. ❏ soft-spoken adj အေျပာအဆို သိမ္ေမြ႕ညင္သာေသာ။ a soft-spoken young woman.

Examples

1. George tripped
2. falling into the soft mud.
3. Soft cheese
4. I want to get a nice soft carpet for the bedroom.
5. Her skin felt soft to his touch.
6. There was nothing soft to cushion the fall.
7. A tape played some soft Neapolitan music.
8. The engine noise was no more than a soft hum.
9. Her bedroom was decorated in soft shades of pink and blue.
10. The soft breeze brought the scent of the roses into the room.
11. The houses looked pretty in the soft rain.
12. He must have a soft heart beneath that stern exterior.
13. Her soft words did not get a soft reply.
14. She stared up at him
15. a soft smile on her face.
16. You’re too soft – I wouldn’t let them behave like that.
17. [soft on] : They accused the minister of being soft on crime.
18. After losing a couple of soft games
19. any win was essential.
20. A softly lit room
21. He was singing softly to himself.