alone
/əˈləʊn/
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ə - ˈləʊn -> alone
(adj) အဖော်မပါဘဲ။ထီးတည်း။(တစ်…)တည်းသာ၊ တည်းသော။ ထီးထီးမားမား။ တစ်ဦးတည်း။ တစ်ယောက်တည်း။ ဒိုင်ခံ။ အထီး ကျန်[သော]။ (adv) အဖော်မပါဘဲ။ထီးတည်း။(တစ်…)တည်းသာ၊ တည်းသော။ ထီးထီးမားမား။ တစ်ဦးတည်း။ တစ်ယောက်တည်း။ ဒိုင်ခံ။ အထီး ကျန်[သော]။
၁။ (က) အဖော်မပါဘဲ။ ထီးတည်း။ (တစ်…)တည်းသာ၊ တည်းသော။ ထီးထီးမားမား။ I don't like going out alone after dark. ❍ She lives all alone in that large house. ❍ Finally the two of us were alone together. ❍ He is not alone in believing (ie Others agree with him) that such a policy is misguided. ❍ (fig ) She stands alone (ie is unique) among modern sculptors.(ခ) တစ်ဦးတည်း။ တစ်ယောက်တည်း။ ဒိုင်ခံ။ It will be difficult for one person alone. ❍ She raised her family quite alone. ❍ I prefer to work on it alone. (ဂ) အထီး ကျန်[သော]။ It was my first experience of living away from home and I felt terribly alone. Compare LONE, LONELY
၂။ ချည်းသက်သက်။ ကသာ။ (တစ်…) တည်းသာ။ The shoes alone cost £100. ❍ (saying ) Time alone will tell. ❍ He will be remembered for that one book alone. ❍ You alone can help me.
❏ go it alone [IDM ] တစ်ကိုယ်တော်စွန့်စားသည်။ He decided to go it alone and start his own business.
❏ leave/let sb/sth alone [IDM ] အသာထား။ She's asked to be left alone but the press keep pestering her. ❍ I've told you before— leave my things alone!
❏ let alone [IDM ] နေနေသာသာ။ ထားလို့။ There isn't enough room for us, let alone a dog and two cats. ❍ I haven't decided on the menu yet, let alone bought the food.
- Shelley is divorced and lives alone.
- [all alone] : She was all alone in a dark forest.
- It was forbidden for an unmarried couple to be alone together.
- [alone with] : Roger hadn’t had a chance before to be alone with Therese.
- Jim said goodnight and left, feeling sad and alone.
- [alone in the world] : I felt completely alone in the world.
- He is so severely disabled that he cannot manage alone.
- Was the killer acting alone?
- Kazakhstan alone had more than 100 different nationalities.
- The team earned over a million pounds from television alone last year.
- He alone was allowed to make decisions on foreign policy.
- Time alone will show whether the voters made the right choice.
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