Such

Definition

such /sʌtʃ/ det ၁။ (က) ယင္းကဲ့သို႔။ ထိုကဲ့သို႔။ အဲဒါမ်ဳိး။ ဒီလို။ He noticed her necklace. Such jewels must have cost thousands, he thought. ❍ I've been invited to an Asian wedding. What happens on such occasions? ❍ He said he hadn't got time or made some such excuse. ❍ This isn't the only story of cruelty to children. Many such cases are reported every day. (ခ) ~ sth as/that… ယင္း ကဲ့သို႔။ ထိုကဲ့သို႔။ ဤကဲ့သို႔။ ဒီလို။ Such a disaster as this had never happened to her before. ❍ The knot was fastened in such a way that it was impossible to undo. ❍ Such advice as (ie The little advice that) he was given proved almost worthless. ၂။ ~ sth (as/that…) ယင္းကဲ့သို႔။ ထိုကဲ့သို႔။ ဒီလို။ ဒါမ်ဳိး။ ဒါေလာက္။ He showed such concern that people took him to be a relative. ❍ He's not such a fool as he looks. ❍ It was such a boring speech (that) I fell asleep. ❍ I'm afraid I can't remember —it was such a long time ago. ❍ Such is the influence of TV that it can make a person famous overnight. ၃။ ဒီေလာက္။ အလြန္႔အလြန္။ အင္မတန္။ She's got such talent. ❍ We're having such a wonderful time. ❍ I've had such a shock. ❍ Why are you in such a hurry? pron (က) (ယင္းသို႔မတိုင္မီက) ဤသို႔ပင္၊ ထိုသို႔ပင္၊ ဒီလိုပဲ။ Cricket was boring. Such (ie That) was her opinion before meeting Ian! ❍ She's a competent manager and has always been regarded as such by her colleagues. (ခ) ~ as to do sth ; ~ that … …ေလာက္ေအာင္(ျဖစ္သည္၊ မျဖစ္)။ The pain in her foot wasn't such as to stop her walking. ❍ The damage was such that it would cost too much to repair. ❏ as such [ IDM ] ဒီအတိုင္းေတာ့။ The new job is not a promotion as such but it has good prospects. ❏ such-and-such pron, det တစ္စံုတစ္ရာေသာ။ ထိုကဲ့သို႔ ေသာ။ အၾကင္မည္ေသာ။ Always say at the start of an application that you're applying for such-and-such (a job) because…. ❏ such as [ IDM ] ၁။ ကဲ့သို႔။ Wild flowers such as orchids and primroses are becoming rare. ၂။ …သမွ်၊ အားလံုး။ Such as remains after tax will be yours when I die. ❏ such as it is [ IDM ] ျမင္တဲ့အတိုင္းပဲ။ You're welcome to join us for supper, such as it is—we're only having soup and bread.

Examples

1. Why did this tragedy happen here and now? Such questions are easier to ask than to answer.
2. Surrender? No one would have dared to suggest such a thing.
3. [just such a] : We drank Sergei’s special vodka
4. which he had kept for just such an occasion.
5. [such...as] : On such a day as today
6. it’s hard to imagine that things will ever be normal again.
7. [such as] : Large and important projects such as this one often take years to develop.
8. [as such] : If this is not genuine champagne
9. it should not be labelled as such.
10. How can anyone live on such a small salary?
11. He has always had such compassion and such concern for others.
12. If it’s such a secret
13. why did you tell me?
14. She’s such a lovely person.
15. [such (...) that] : He speaks to me in such a way that I always feel he is insulting me.
16. [be such that] : Their relationship was such that they spent every possible minute together.
17. [such is/was] : Such was Crowther’s reputation in the city that no one ever questioned his judgment.
18. [such as to] : The countess’s treatment of her servants was such as to cause great resentment.
19. [such...that] : It was such lovely weather that we decided to spend the day on the beach.
20. It was such an extraordinary story that no one believed a word of it.
21. [be such that] : Their confidence was such that they spent £200
22. 000 on TV advertising for their first album.