Stresses

Definition

straw /strↄ:/ n ၁။ (က) ေကာက္႐ိုး။ ဂ်ံဳ႐ိုး။ a straw hat ❍ a stable filled with straw ❍ a roof thatched (ie covered) with straw. (ခ) [C] ေကာက္႐ိုး။ ဂ်ံဳ႐ိုး။ Compare HAY ၂။ [C] အရည္စုပ္ရန္ ႁပြန္တံ၊ စုပ္တံ။ drinking lemonade through a straw. ❏ clutch/grasp at straws [ IDM ] ေကာက္႐ိုးမွ်င္ကို ေရနစ္သူ ဖမ္းယူဆုပ္ကိုင္သကဲ့သို႔ ရရာမီရာကို အားကိုးအားထားျပဳသည္။ I'm just clutching at straws, but is it possible that the doctors are wrong? ❏ the last/final straw [ IDM ] သည္းခံရင္းမွ ေပါက္ကြဲေအာင္ ဖန္တီးသည့္ စနက္မီးျဖစ္ေသာ အေသးအဖြဲ ကိစၥ။ After all the problems I had with the job, not getting paid on time was the last/final straw. ❏ straw-coloured adj ( US -colored ) အဝါေဖ်ာ့။ straw-coloured hair. ❏ a straw in the wind [ IDM ] ေျပးေနေသာနိမိတ္။ ❏ straw poll n လူထုဆႏၵ အလြတ္စံုစမ္းေကာက္ယူခ်က္။ A straw poll taken among local people showed that most did not want the new road to be built. ❏ the straw that breaks/broke the camel's back [ IDM ] = THE LAST/FINAL STRAW

Examples

1. Bales of straw
2. A straw hat