Saturday, December 3, 2022

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Short idioms

all at once (idm) ရုတ်တရက်။ 2.တစ်ပြိုင်တည်း။

All at once the door opened.
I can’t do anything all at once.

all night long (idm) တစ်ညလုံး

I couldn't sleep all night long. John was sick all night long.

as a result (idm) အကျိုးဆက်အဖြစ်

She died as a result of her injuries

as always (idm) ခါတိုင်းလိုပင်

As always, dinner was delicious

as much as (idm) သလောက်၊ သမျှ

As much as I'd like to see Paris or Rome someday, I'm pretty content to stay right here in my hometown for the time being

as much as sb can (idm) အတတ်နိုင်ဆုံး

I felt so ill this morning, it was as much as I could do to get out of bed.
I will help you as much as I can.

as regards (idm, fml) နှင့်ပတ်သက်၍

As regards our lunch date, I'm free this Sunday.
I have little information as regards his past.

as if/as though (idm)ကဲ့သို့။ သလို

He behaved as if nothing had happened.
He rubbed his eyes and yawned as though waking up after a long sleep.

as to (idm) နှင့်စပ်လျဉ်း၍ as regards

Regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendant of David.
As to correcting our homework, the teacher always makes us do it ourselves.

at a glance (idm) တစ်ချက်ကြည့်ရုံမျှဖြင့်

He could tell at a glance what was wrong with the car.

at all times (idm) အမြဲတမ်း။ အချိန်မရွေး

Our staff are available to help you at all times.

at first (idm) ပထမဦးစွာ

At first I thought she was shy, but then I discovered she was just not interested in other people.

at first glance (idm) မြင်မြင်ချင်း။ အပေါ်ယံအားဖြင့်

At first glance the problem seemed easy.

at ease (idm) အေးအေးသက်သာ၊ ငြိမ်းငြိမ်းချမ်းချမ်း

I'm not under too much pressure; they told me to submit the report at my ease.

at least (idm) အနည်းဆုံး

Cut the grass at least once a week in summer.

at long last (idm) နောက်ဆုံး (အကြာကြီး)ကျမှ

At long last the government is starting to listen to our problems

at night (idm) ညဘက်မှာ

Be careful going out in the city at night.

at once (idm) ရုတ်တရက်။ ချက်ချင်း။ 2.တစ်ချိန်တည်း၊ တစ်ခါတည်း

I need you to call me at once—we have an urgent matter to discuss
Don’t all speak at once.

at peace (with)(idm) အပူအပင်ကင်း လွတ်လပ်သည် 2.(idm)ပြေလည်၊ ပြေငြိမ်းသည်။

He had felt at peace and strangely detached.
A man at peace with the world.

at present (idm) လောလောဆယ်

I pushed the problem aside, at present it was insoluble

at risk (idm) အန္တရာယ်ရှိသည်၊ ဘေးမကင်း

My job is at risk.

at the beginning အစ၌

At the beginning of a ceremonial parade,he gives the order to march on

at the moment (idm) ယခုအခါ၌၊ လောလောဆယ်

She's busy at the moment—can she call you back later?
I'm sorry, but we're not accepting applications at the moment

at the same time (idm) တစ်ပြိုင်တည်း။ တစ်ချိန်တည်း

The second episode will be screened at the same time tomorrow.

at times (idm) တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ occasionally

I love my family, but at times, I just need to take a vacation by myself.

be concerned in sth (idm, fml) ပတ်သက်သည်။ တာဝန်ရှိသည်။

Everyone who was directly concerned in the incident has now resigned

be in control (idm) ထိန်းချုပ်သည်

Who's in control here? I want to talk to the ranking officer.

be use to + sth (idm) အနေသားကျ။ အသားကျတယ်။

I am used to this country

by all means (idm) လုပ်ခွင့်ပြုသည့် အခါမျိုး၌ သုံးလေ့ရှိသည့် စကား။ ရပါတယ်။

‘Can I see it?’ By all means’.

by dint of (idm) အကြောင့်(ဖြင့်)

He succeeds by dint of sheer hard work
She got what she wanted by dint of pleading and threatening

by force (idm) အတင်း။ အဓမ္မ

The army took control of the region by force.

by hand (idm) လက်ဖြင့်

Back in my day, we had to write out all of our essays by hand!

by means of (idm) အားဖြင့် due to

I only wake up in time for work by means of an alarm clock.

by one’s own account (idm) ပြောဆိုချက်အရ

She had plans to set up a business on her own account.

by reason of = because of

Persons who, by reason of age, are in need of care

by then (idm) အဲဒီအချိန် at that time

He turned to look back, but by then she was out of sight.

by virtue of (idm)အရင်းခံ၍။ အကြောင်းပြု၍။ ခြင်းကြောင့်

They are paid more by virtue of their seniority
She got the job by virtue of her greater experience

day and night/night and day (idm) နေ့ရောညပါ

We travelled day and night without stopping

even now/then (idm) အခုတောင်၊ တာတောင်

I’ve shown him the photographs but even now he won’t believe me.
Even then he would not admit his mistake.

first of all (idm) ပထမဦးဆုံး။

First of all, I would like to thank you for coming

for a change (idm) အပြောင်းအလဲအနေနှင့်။

For a change, it was a gloriously sunny day.

for real (idm, infml) တကယ်။ အလကားမဟုတ်။ 2.တကယ့်။ အဟုတ်။

This isn’t just a practice game this time it’s for real.
I don’t think her tears were for real.

for show (idm) ပြရုပ်သက်သက်

Those books are just for show-she never reads them.

for the time being (idm) လောလောဆယ်။ အခုနေအခါမှာတော့

My car is being repaired, so for the time being I'll have to use the bus
We shall put it aside for the time being

from time to time (idm) မကြာမကြာ။ မကြာခဏ

Her daughters visited him from time to time when he was ill.

get used to + sth (idm)အသားကျလာတယ်။ အနေသားကျလာတယ်။

I expect we’ll get used to the noise, but at the moment it’s very disturbing.

in accordance with (idm)နှင့် အညီ

The suspect's statement is not in accordance with the information witnesses have given us.

in addition (idm) ထို့အပြင်

In addition, you will need to stay late whenever the senior staff has to

in addition (to sth/sb) (idm) အပြင် additionally; further; moreover;

in addition (to these arrangements), thirty ambulances will be on duty till midnight.

in advance (idm) ကြိုတင်၍

Unfortunately, you'll have to submit the piece in order to get paid. We never pay in advance.

in any case/ in any event (idm) ဘာပဲဖြစ်ဖြစ်

I can't remember if we're stopping in Philly or Baltimore. In any case, we're definitely staying in D.C. for the night.

in charge (of sth) (idm) တာဝန်ရှိ/ယူ/ခံသည်

Who is in charge of arrangements for the dance next week?

in consort with sb (idm) အဆက်အဆံပြုသည်။

He ruled in consort with his father.

in common (idm) အများပိုင်။ ဘုံပိုင်

Well, that's one thing we have in common—we both hate asparagus!

in company with sb (idm) အတူတူ

She arrived in company with the ship’s captain

in contact with (idm) …နှင့် ဆက်သွယ်လျက်။

Don't worry, I'll be in contact with you once I have some more information.

in danger (idm) အန္တရာယ်ရှိသည်။

We're all in serious danger right now—this roof could cave in at any moment!

in debt (idm, infml)အကြွေးရှိသည်

Mary is deeply in debt. I am in debt to the bank for my car loan.

in demand (idm) တောင်းဆိုသည်။ လိုလားသည်။

Now that the property market has begun to boom, construction workers are in demand.

in due course (idm) အချိန်တန်တော့။ နောက်ဆုံးတော့

Your request will be dealth with in due course.

in effect (idm)လက်တွေ့အားဖြင့်။ စင်စစ်အားဖြင့်

In effect, Hannah's been managing our department this whole time, just without a fancy title.

in fact (idm) အမှန်အားဖြင့်။ တကယ်တော့

He's a great player. In fact, he may be the best shortstop I've ever coached.

in full (idm) အပြည့်

Make sure there are enough funds in the bank so that the contractors can be paid in full

in future (idm, Brit) နောင်တွင်

We'll have to be more careful about our strategy in future.

in general (idm)ယေဘုယျအားဖြင့်။ အများအားဖြင့်

I don't dislike romantic comedies in general, but I just haven't seen a lot of good ones

in good faith (idm) သဘောရိုးဖြင့်

I may have mishandled your account, but it was a simple mistake—I was acting in good faith

in hand (idm) လက်ကျန်

We still have 10000 kyats in hand

in high spirits (idm) ဖျတ်လတ်တက်ကြွသော။ ရွှင်ပျပျရှိသော

All the children were in high spirits on the last day of school.

in hope (idm) မျှော်လင့်လျက်

He waited in hopes that she would show up

in need of (idm) လိုနေတယ်။

He was in desperate need of medical care
This flower is in need of water.

in no way (idm) ဘယ်နည်းနှင့်မျှ မဟုတ်နိုင် =Not at all; not by any means.

We are in no way blaming you for what happened, but you still have to cooperate with the police investigation

in order (idm) စနစ်တကျ

Please get your desk in order. I wish you would put things in order!

in order that + s +modals (past) (idm) ရန်။ ရန်အလို့ငျာ

He left early in order that his children would not be alone in the house.
She opened the window in order that the wind could come in

in order to + inf (idm) ဖို့၊ ရန်၊ အလို့ငှာ

She arrived early in order to get a good seat.
I went shopping in order to buy new jeans.

in other words (idm) တစ်နည်းပြောရရင်တော့

It was a perfectly ordinary day; in other words, I went to work and came home again.

in pairs (idm) စုံလိုက်

We had to leave the building in pairs as part of the evacuation plan.

in part (idm) တစ်စိတ်တစ်ပိုင်းအားဖြင့်။ တစ်စိတ်တစ်ဒေသအားဖြင့် partly

His success was due in part luck.

in particular (idm) အထူးသဖြင့်။ တစ်စုံနစ်ရာ ထူးထူထွေထွေ

Is there anything else in particular you hoped to do on your trip here?

in person (idm) လူကိုယ်တိုင်၊ လူချင်း

He's my favorite actor! I can't believe you met him in person!

in principle (idm) အခြေခံသဘောအရ

In principle I agree with the idea, but in practice it's not always possible

in print (idm) ဝယ်ယူ၍ ရနိုင်သေးသော (စာအုပ်)။ 2.ပုံနှိပ်ဖော်ပြထားသော (တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက်၏ ရေးသားချက် လက်ရာ)

Is that volume still in print?
It was the first time he had seen himself/his work in print.

in private (idm) သီးသီးသန့်သန့်၊ နှစ်ကိုယ်ချင်း

I'd like to speak to you in private. I enjoy spending the evening in private

in progress (idm) ပြုဆဲ၊ ဆောင်ရွက်ဆဲဖြစ်သည်။

The story is still a work in progress, but let me know what you think of it so far.

in/with regard to (idm, fml) နှင့်ပတ်သက်၍

We have a few concerns in regard to your performance as of late
With regard to that proposal, I think we should postpone it for now.

in search of (idm) ရှာရန်

I'm going to town in search of a new book to read.

in so far as/ in as far as (idm)သမျှ။ သလောက်။ သရွှေ့

In so far as money is concerned, our project will be completely funded by private donations.

in terms of (idm) နှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍ =in relation to, regarding, in reference to. 2.အရ။ အားဖြင့် (နှိုင်းဆသည်) As measured with a certain type of unit or category.

In terms of the merger, I'm afraid I can't provide any more details at this time.
The book is well-organized in terms of plot.
The job is great in terms of salary but there are disadvantages

in the abstract (idm) ယေဘုယျအားဖြင့်

Love is something that exists in the abstract—it's very hard to define what makes love real.

in the beginning (idm) အစအဦး၌၊ အစတွင်

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.(Genesis 1:1)

in the end (idm) နောက်ဆုံးတွင်၊ နောက်ဆုံးတော့ =finall

In the end, you'll thank your parents for pushing you to work hard.

in the face of (idm) (အခက်အခဲ အန္တရာယများနှင့်) ရင်ဆိုင်လျက် 2. (အတိုက်အခိုက် တစ်ခုခုနှင့်) ရင်ဆိုင်ရ သည့်အခါ

He succeeded in the face of danger.
We are powerless in the face of such a threat.

in the hope of (idm)…ကို မျှော်လင့်ချက်

She’s in the hope of success.

in the long run (idm) ရေရှည်တွင်

Moving to Spain will be better for you in the long run.

in the long term (idm) ရေရှည်မှာ

In the long term the company hopes to open in Moscow and other major cities

in the meantime (idm) ထိုစဉ်တွင်

In the meantime, she continued to work at the bank.

in time (idm) အချိန်မီ

I need to get home in time to take a shower before the party.

in touch (idm) ဆက်သွယ်လျက်။ in contact, in communication

We kept/stayed in touch after college

in trouble (idm) ဒုက္ခတွေ့သည်။ ဘေးတွေ့သည်။

Lori and Josh's relationship was the one in trouble

in use (idm) အသုံးပြုနေတယ်။ အသုံးပြုနေဆဲ

We couldn't play tennis because the courts were all in use.
Robots are in use throughout industry

in vain (idm) အချည်းနှီး။ အလကား

She struggles in vain, screaming and trying to get away

(just) in case (idm) လိုရမည်ရ။

It may rain- You’d better tak an umbrella (just) in case.

just in time (idm) အချိန်မီရုံလေး

You've come just in time

much the same (idm) မထူးခြားလှ

The patient is much the same this morning

no longer (idm)…မတော့ဘူး = not…any more/ … no more.

He no longer smokes/ He doesn’t smoke any more/ He smokes no more.
I no longer have money/ I don’t have money any more/ I have no more money.
I no longer know/ I don’t know any more/ I know no more.

not in the least (idm) လုံးဝမဟုတ်သော။ နည်းနည်းမျှ

Really, I’m not in the least tired. တကယ်ပါ၊ နည်းနည်းမျှ မမောပါဘူး

on a diet (idm) (ကျန်းမာရေးအရ/ဝိုက်လျှော့ရန်) အစာလျှော့စားသည်။
1. My doctor put me on a diet of nothing but fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
2. The doctor said that I should be on a diet.
on account of sth/ on this/that account (idm) အကြောင်းကြောင့်၊ ကြောင့်၊ အတွက်

Please, don't stop the class on account of me. I'll just observe from the back

on business (idm) အလုပ်ဖြင့်

He's currently abroad on business
I have to go to Rome on business

on condition that (phrs) … လျှင်မှ (only if)

The officials spoke on the condition that their names not be used.
The man, who spoke on the condition that he be identified only as Alex, agreed to sign up.
He taught me the trick on condition that I never tell anyone else how to do it.

on no account/ not on any account (idm) မည်သည့်အကြောင်းနှင့်မျှ၊ ဘာကြောင့်ပဲဖြစ်ဖြစ်

On no account let anyone know we're interested

on no condition (idm) မည်သည့် အခြေအနေမျိုးတွင်မှ။ ဘယ်တော့မှ

I can on no condition forgive her
On no condition may it be used for circuses, shows or exhibitions of any kind
On no condition should untrained personnel use the equipment

on one’s account (idm) မိမိဘာသာ။ မိမိအတွက်။ မိမိအတွက် မိမိ

You didn't have to clean your room on my account. မိမိအတွက်

on one’s own (idm) မိမိဘာသာ

He lives on his own.

on principle (idm) မူအရ

He would vote against it on principle
He refused on principle to agree to the terms of the treaty

on purpose (idm) တမင်တကာ။ သက်သက်။ ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိ

They think the fire was started on purpose.

on show(idm) ကြော်ငြာသည်။ being exhibited

Her designs were perhaps the most imaginative range on show

on the move (idm) ချီတက်သည်။ 2.အတည်တကျမနေ။

The army is on the move.
It’s hard to contact her - She’s always on the move.

on time (idm) အချိန်မှန်

Their planes usually arrive on time.

on vacation (idm) အားလပ်ရက် အပျော်ခရီးသွားသည်။

We are happy to be on vacation.

once in a liftetime (idm) တစ်သက်မှ တစ်ခါ

A once-in-a-lifetime honeymoon experience is something that can't be bought in a store

only if (idm) မှသာလျှင်

He can stay on the team only if he completes his homework and improves his grades
Only if the red light comes on is there any danger to employees.
You'll lose weight only if you stick to your diet.
She was authorized to speak only if she remained anonymous.

out of control (idm) မထိန်းမသိမ်းနိုင်ဖြစ်သည်။

The children are out of control.

out of date(idm) ခေတ်မမီ(တော့)။ ခေတ်ကုန်ပြီ။ 2.ရက်လွန်(နေပြီ)။

Will denim jeans ever go out of date?
My passport is out of date.

out of doors (idm) အပြင်

The kids spent all their time out of doors.

out of print (idm) လက်ကျန်မရှိတော့သော (စာအုပ်)

Her first novel is out of print now but you may find a second-hand copy

out of school/hospital/college (idm) (ကျောင်း/ဆေးရုံ/ကောလိပ်) မှာ မရှိ/မနေတော့ဘူး

Never tell tales out of school.
He's out of the hospital, but he can't go back to work.

out of work (idm)အလုပ်မလုပ်။ unemployed

Despite applying for hundreds of jobs, he is still out of work.

over and over again (idm) အကြိမ်ကြိမ်အဖန်ဖန်

I have told him over and over again that I would not be going, but he won't listen

so/as far as (idm) သရွေ့၊ သမျှ၊ သလောက်

The play was a great success so far as attendance was concerned

so as to (idm) ရန်၊ ရန်အလို့ငှာ in order to

We took off our shoes so as to avoid scratching the newly finished floors

so far/thus far (idm, infml) ယခုအထိ

The results have been encouraing, so far.

so far (idm, infml) သရွေ့၊ သမျှ

I trust him only so far (and no further)

so much so that (phrs) ဒီလောက်တောင် ဖြစ်တာမို့။ ဒါကြောင့်မို့။

We are very busy—so much so that we won't be able to take time off this year

thus far (idm) ထိုအထိ၊ ယင်းအထိ၊ အဲဒီအထိ so far

It was a gamble that seems, thus far, to have paid off

under age(idm) အသက်မပြည့်သေးသော

He was sentenced to five years in prison for dating a girl who was under age

under control (idm) ထိန်းချုပ်သည်၊ လွှမ်းမိုးသည်။

I'm not under your control—I'll do as I like!

under fire (idm) ရန်သူ၏ ပစ်ခတ်မှုကို ခံရသည်။ အပြင်းအထန် ဝေဖန်ခံရသည်။

If you get too close to enemy territory, you could come under fire
You will definitely come under fire if they find out that you were responsible for the printing error.

under/in the circumstances (idm) အခြေအနေအရ

Under the circumstances, I think you should rest—you are just getting over a cold, after all.

under/in no circumstances (idm) ဘယ်တော့မှ။ ဘယ်လိုမှ။ ဘာကြောင့်မှ

Under no circumstances will I allow you to go to a party on a school night

with (all) due respect (idm) လေးစားပါတယ်၊ ‌ဒါပေမဲ့။

With all due respect, the figures simply do not support you on this

with respect to (idm, fml, commerce) နှင့်စပ်လျဉ်း၍

It is true with respect to English but not to France.
I am writing with respect to your recent enquiry.

within limits (idm) အတိုင်းအဆ၊ အကန့်သတ်ဘောင်အတွင်း

Within limits, this seems a not unreasonable request.

Adv ConjPrep (clause)

according to (prep) အဆိုအရ၊ အရ၊ နှင့်အညီ၊ အတိုင်း

According to Dr Santos, the cause of death was drowning.
The road was forty miles long, according to my map

accordingly (adv) လျော်ညီစွာ။ 2. တို့ကြောင့်။ သို့ဖြစ်၍။ သို့ဖြစ်သောကြောင့် = for that reason

I’ve told you what the situation is; you must act accordingly.
He knew his limitations and acted accordingly

additionally (adv) ထို့ပြင်

Additionally, a shuttle service will run on Sundays from 9 am to 6 am.
We started out with just one floor, but additionally, another was added
There was something additionally disturbing about her for a male spectator

alike (adv) အတူတူ။ ညီတူညီမျှ။ ထပ်တူထပ်မျှ

Her books are enjoyed by adults and children alike ( both adults and children)

alike (adj) ဆင်သော။ တူသော

They are not sisters but their clothes are alike, aren’t they?

almost never (adv) …မ..ဖူးသလောက်

I almost never eat red meat. ငါ အသား မစားဖူးးသလောက်ပဲ
She almost never misses a game

along (prep) တစ်လျှောက်။ အတိုင်း

Walk along the street
Flowers grow along the side of the wall ပြိုင်၍၊ တစ်လျှောက်၊ အတိုင်း

alongside (adv) ဘေးတွင်။ 2.နှင့်အတူ။ နှင့်တွဲဖက်၍

The car drew up alongside the kerb
Traditional religious beliefs still florish alongside a modern urban lifestyle

always (adv) အမြဲတမ်း

She always arrives at 7.30.
The children always seem to be hungry.

amid/amidst (prep) အလယ်တွင်။ အကြားတွင်

The firm collapsed amid allegations of fraud.
On the floor, amid mounds of books, were two small envelopes

among/amongst (prep) ကြားထဲတွင်။ အကြားတွင်

She works among the poor
He found the letters amongst a pile of old books.

(and) yet သို့ပေမဲ့၊ ဒါပေမဲ့

The path was dark, yet I slowly found my way
The weather was cold and yet bright and sunny

annually (adv) နှစ်စဉ်

My office has a holiday party annually

anyhow ထို့ပြင်၊ ဒါ့အပြင် (ရှေ့၌ ဆိုပြီးဖြစ်သည်ကို အတည်ပြုသော အားဖြင့် သုံးသည်) anyway 2.ဒါပေမဲ့၊ သို့ပေမဲ့ 3.ဘာပဲဖြစ်ဖြစ် 4.ဖြစ်ကတတ်ဆန်း၊ ပစ်စလက်ခတ်

It’s too expensive and anyhow the color doesn’t suit you. It’s too late now, anyhow. (1)
The water was cold but I had a bath anyhow.(2)
Anyhow, let’s forget about that for the moment.(3)
She threw her clothes down all anyhow.(4)

apart from (US aside from)(prep) ကလွဲလို့။ 2.အပြင်

Apart from being a bit overweight, he's quite healthy
Who else was there apart from your parents?

as (conj)…တုန်းက။ …စဉ်က

As a child she was sent to six different schools.

as (pre) ကဲ့သို့။ လို။

Some flowers, as the rose, require special care
I don't think it's as hot and humid today as it was yesterday.
He dressed as a policeman.

because of (prep) ကြောင့်

They are here because of us.
Because of the rain, the tennis match was stopped

besides (adv) ထို့ပြင်။ လည်းပဲ။ 2.မှအပ။ မှတစ်ပါး။ ကလွဲလို့ (following a negative)

There will be five of us for dinner, besides the children.
She has no relations besides an aged aunt.
No one writes to me besides you.

concerning (prep) နှင့် ပတ်သက်၍။ နှင့် ဆက်နွယ်၍ (fml)

Allegations concerning police methods
We are given little information concerning matters of national security

consequently (adv) ထို့ကြောင့်။ အဲဒါကြောင့် = as a result

My car broke down and consequently I arrived rather late.
He is not satisfied. Consequently, we must prepare a new proposal.

constantly (adv) မကြာခဏ။ အမြဲ

He is not predictable, he seldom repeats himself, but he constantly surprises
Fashion is constantly changing.
We drove through constantly changing scenery.

contrary to (prep) ဆန့်ကျင်လျက်။ ဖီလာ(အားဖြင့်)

Such pratices as these are contrary to the law/rules.

daily (adj) နေ့စဉ်

She eats vegetables daily

despite (prep) သို့ဖြစ်စေကာမူ။ သော်ငြားလည်း

I still enjoyed the week despite the weather
Despite wanting to see him again, she refused to reply to his letters.
He laughed despite himself. (without taking any notice of or being influenced by; not prevented by)

due to (phrv) ကြောင့်

The team’s success was entirely due to her efforts.
The traffic jam was due to a terrible accident at the intersection

even (adv) တောင်၊ တောင်မှ

The road ran even over the fields.
He didn't even have enough money to pay the rent
He never even opened the letter.
Even a child can understand it.

even if (conj) သော်လည်း some action or result will happen no matter what

I’ll get there, even if I have to walk all the way.
She works even if she is sick
Even if it rains, we will play baseball.

even so (conj) သော်လည်းပဲ။ ပေမည့်လည်း

There are a lot of spelling mistakes; even so, it’s quite a good essay.
I know you claim not to care about the breakup; even so, you keep talking about it

even though (conj) သော်လည်း talk about a real situation or event.

I like her even though she can be annoying at times.
She is working now even though she is sick.

ever (adv) …ဖူး

Have you ever been in a helicopter?
Have you ever seen an elephant?
I never wake up before 5 am.

every once in while (adv) ရံဖန်ရံခါ =occasionally

Everybody makes a mistake once in a while
We go out to the movies every once in a while

except (prep) မှလွဲ၍။ မှတစ်ပါး

The restaurant is open every day except Monday.

exceptionally (adv) သူမတူထူးကဲစွာ extremely

The weather was exceptionally mild for the time of the year
An exceptionally beautiful child.

frequently (adv) မကြာခဏ။ မကြာမကြာ on many occasions.

Buses run frequently between the city and the airport.
Her father, a pilot, was frequently absent from home

furthermore (adv) ထို့အပြင်။ ဒီ့အပြင်

She always arrives on time; furthermore, her work is always excellent.
He is lazy, and furthermore, he has no sense of responsibility.

hardly (adv) သီသီလေးပဲ။ အနည်းငယ်ပဲ။ ရုံမျှ။ အနိုင်နိုင်

I hardly know her ကျွန်တော် သူ့ကို ကောင်းကောင်းမသိဘူး
I’m so tired I can hardly stay awake. နှိုးနိုင် ရုံမျှ၊ အနိုင်နိုင်

hardly ever (adv) ဖြစ်ခဲ။ မ…သလောက်

She hardly ever went on holiday
She hardly ever goes out.

hence (adv) ထို့ကြောင့်၊ ဒါကြောင်း

The weather was much better this year; hence the orange crop is larger
He is not satisfied. Hence, we must prepare a new proposal.
He is not satisfied; hence, we must prepare a new proposal.

however (adv) သော်ငြားလည်း

We have not yet won; however, we shall keep trying
We thought the figures were correct. However, we have now discovered some errors.

however (conj) ဒါပေမဲ့

You can dress however you like.
Do it however you like

including (prep) အပါအဝင်

$57.50, including postage and packing
The band played a number of songs, including my favorites.

indeed (adv) စင်စစ်။ တကယ့်ကို

Indeed, I am delighted to help.
He is, indeed, a hard worker.

infrequently (adv) တစ်ခါတစ်ခါမှာသာ။ ရှားရှားပါးပါး

This happens not infrequently (= often).
Jeremy does play cricket, but very infrequently.
The surface is infrequently marked with warts.

lest (conj, fml) …စိုး၍၊ စိုးရိမ်၍။ မ…စေရန်။ 2….မည်စိုးရိမ်၍ (used after fear, be afraid, be anxious, etc)

He disguised himself lest he be recognized
He gripped his brother's arm lest he be trampled by the mob
Lest anyone should think my story strange, let me assure you that it is all quite true
Lest anyone should doubt my story, I have brought documents to attest to its truth
She was afraid lest he might drown (2)
She was afraid lest she had revealed too much.(2)

likewise (adv) အလားတူ

Just water these plants twice a week, and likewise the ones in the bedroom.
I’m going to bed and you would be well advised to do likewise.

monthly (adv) လစဉ်

Payments are payable monthly

moreover (adv) ထို့အပြင် =furthermore

They know the painting is a forgery. Moreover, they know who painted it.
The whole report is badly written. Moreover, it's inaccurate.

never (adv) ဘယ်တော့မှ

He has never been abroad.
She never comes to visit us

nevertheless (adv) သိုပါလျက်၊ သော်ငြားလည်း၊ လင့်ကစား၊ ပေမဲ့ =in spite of, notwithstanding

I knew a lot about the subject already, but her talk was interesting nevertheless
The defeat was widely predicted but it is disappointing nevertheless

nonetheless (adv) မည်သို့ဆိုစေကာမူ။ ဘာဖြစ်ဖြစ် =nevertheless

It’s not cheap but I think we should buy it nonetheless.
There was still a long way to go. Nonetheless, some progress had been made.

notwithstanding (adv) သို့သော်ငြားလည်း =nevertheless, however, nonetheless

We were invited notwithstanding
I didn't like it. Notwithstanding, I remained calm

notwithstanding (conj) သော်လည်း = in spite of, although

It was the same material, notwithstanding the texture seemed different
Notwithstanding that the hall was packed with bullies, our champion played on steadily and patiently

notwithstanding (prep) သော်ငြားလည်း

Notwithstanding a brilliant defense, he was found guilty. She went to the game anyway, doctor's orders notwithstanding.
Notwithstanding the evidence, the consensus is that the jury will not reach a verdict

occasionally (adv) တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ = on occasion(s)

We occasionally meet for a drink after work
He visits me occasionally

on occasion(s) (adv) အခါအားလျော်စွာ။ ရံဖန်ရံခါ

I've met him on several occasions
On occasion prisoners were allowed visits from their families

once in a while (adv) ရံဖန်ရံခါ

Earrings need to be taken out and cleaned once in a while
We all drink a little too much once in a while

otherwise (adv) တစ်နည်းအားဖြင့်

I wanted to see him, but he was otherwise engaged (ie doing sth else)

otherwise (conj) သို့မဟုတ်လျှင်

I had no problems, otherwise I would have telephoned you.
I’m not well today, otherwise I would have helped.

owing to (prep) ကြောင့်

Owing to torrential rain, the game was canceled.
Their late arrival was owing to the rain

particularly (adv) အထူးသဖြင့်

I like all her novels, but her latest is particularly good.

partly (adv) တစ်စိတ်တစ်ဒေသအားဖြင့်။

It was partly her fault.
She was only partly responsible for the accident.

rarely (adv) ..ခဲ။ ကြုံတောင့်ကြုံခဲ။ ရှားရှားပါးပါး

She is rarely seen in public nowadays
We rarely agree on what to do.

rather (adv) တော်တော်။ ခပ်

It’s rather cold outside. (before adj)
I rather suspect we’re making a big mistake.(before v)

regarding (prep) စပ်လျဉ်း၍

She said nothing regarding your request.

regardless of (prep) မခွဲခြားဘဲ၊ ပဓာန မထားဘဲ၊ no matter

The club welcomes all new members regardless of age

regularly (adv) ပုံမှန်

He regularly arrives on television.
We meet regularly to discuss the progress of the project.

respecting (prep, fml) ဆိုင်ရာ။ နှင့် ပတ်သက်သော

Laws respecting property.
Information respecting the child’s whereabouts.

secondly (adv) လက်၍ ဒုတိယအနေဖြင့်

Firstly, It’s too expensive; and secondly, it’s very ugly.

seldom (adv) ..ခဲ၊ ကြုံတောင့်ကြုံခဲ =rarely, hardly ever, infrequently

He had seldom seen a child with so much talent.
They seldom watch television these days

similarly (adv) အလားတူ၊ တစ်ပုံစံတည်း၊ ဆင်တူ = in the same way; likewise

Similarly, the demand for copper has increased.
The two boys dress similarly.

so (adv) ထို့ကြောင့်၊ ဒါကြောင့်

The shop was closed so I couldn’t get any milk.
She wasn't needed, so she left.

somehow (adv) တစ်နည်းနည်းဖြင့်၊ ဘယ်နည်းနှင့်မဆို၊ ဘာ့ကောင်းမှန်းမသိ

We must stop him fron seeing her somehow.
Somehow, I don’t feel I can trust him. ဘာ့ကြောင့်မှန်းမသိ

sometimes (adv) တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ

Sometimes I go by car.
He sometimes writes to me.
I like to be on my own sometimes

somewhat (adv) အနည်းငယ်၊ တော်တော်ကလေး

I was somewhat surprised to see him.
He sounded somewhat confused.

subsequently (adv) နောက်ပိုင်းတွင်

They subsequently heard he had left the country.

subsequent to (prep, fml) ပြီးသည့်နောက်တွင်။

There have been further developments subsequent to our meeting.

therefore (adv) ထို့ကြောင့်

He is out of the country and therefore unable to attend the meeting.
He therefore gave him many beautiful gifts and everything that could please a prince.
There is still much to discuss. We shall, therefore, return to this item at our next meeting.

thus (adv) ဒါကြောင့်၊ ထို့ကြောင့်

He is not satisfied. Thus, we must prepare a new proposal.
He is not satisfied; thus, we must prepare a new proposal

usually (adv) များသောအားဖြင့်။ ထုံးစံအတိုင်း

I'm usually home by 6 o'clock
I usually only see them at Christmas or weddings.
Patients usually have no symptoms

weekly (adv) အပတ်စဉ်

I visit my friend weekly

whereas (conj) စင်စစ်ကတော့…။ စင်စစ်အားဖြင့်။…မှာတော့ (နှိုင်းယှဉ်ရာ၌ သုံးသောစကား)

He earns $10000 a year whereas she gets at least $ 30000.
We thought she was rather arrogant, whereas in fact she was just very shy.

Phrases

a disgrace to သိက္ခကျဆင်းစေ၊ နာမည်ပျက်စေ၊ အရှက်ရစေသည်။

You’re a disgrace to your family.

a good/worthy cause စလုပ်ချင်စရာကောင်း

Please give as much as you can; it’s for a very worthy cause.

a load is off your mind ဝန်ပေါ့သွားသည်။ ရင်အေးသွားသည်။
absorbed in sth အာရုံနစ်မျောသော very interested in sth

They were completely absorbed in each other.

agony of စိတ်သောကရောက်

She had to go through the agony of leaving her children.

all in a good cause သိပ်အဆင်ပြေတယ်။

It may be hard work but it’s all in a good cause.

allot a fixed time ပုံသေအချိန် သတ်မှတ်သည်
an adverse/beneficial effect ဆိုးကျိုး/ကောင်းကျိုးရလဒ်
an eye for detail အသေးစိတ်ကို မြင်တတ်သည်။

She has an incredibly good eye for detail (=ability to notice detail)

any longer...တော့...

I can’t wait any longer
I do not need you any longer

at an advantage ( အလားအလာရှိသည်။ in a better position to succeed.

Younger workers tend to be at an advantage when applying for jobs.

at birth မွေးစက၊ မွေးရာတွင်

I’m sinful at birth.

be concerned to do အရေးကြီး ဆောင်ရွက်စရာအဖြစ် သဘောထားသည်
be concerned with sth ပတ်သက်သည်။ နှီးနွှယ်သည်

Her latest documentary is primarily concerned with youth unemployment.

by my watch ကျွန်ုပ်နာရီအရ။ 2.(idm)ကျွန်ုပ်၏ ကြီးကြပ်မှုအရ၊ စောင့်ရှောက်မှုအရ

By my watch it is two o’clock.
I can't believe you let this happen on your watch.

in the same way အလားတူ

Make the drink with boiling water in the same way as tea
In the same way, I also feel closer to both of them.
Nobody can go to war and be changed in the same way

one's/sb's due ရထိုက်သောအရာ။ ပေးထိုက်သော အရာ။

He received a large reward, which was no more than his due (at least what he deserved)
She's a slow worker but, to give her her due (ie to be fair to her), she does try very hard.

put/place a construction on sth တည်ဆောက်သည်။

We both heard what he said, but she put quite a different construction on it.

sort of/kind of + verb သလိုလို

I sort of thought this might happen

under construction ဆောင်လုပ်နေသည်။

The dam is still under construction.

with the help/support of …အားဖြင့်/ကြောင့် (၏အကူအညီဖြင့်) owning to, as a result of

With the help of cold water he was soon brought round.

without warning ချက်ချင်း။ မထင်မှတ်ဘဲ

Without warning, the tree crashed through the roof.

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