but
/bət/
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US voice -> but
but1 /bǝt; strong form bʌt/ conj
(ဆန့်ကျင်အနက်ပြ သမ္ဗန္ဓစကား)။
၁။ …မှာမူ။ …ကမူ။ You've bought the wrong shirt. It's not the red one I wanted but the blue one. ❍ Tom went to the party, but his brother didn't. ❍ He doesn't like music but his wife does.
၂။ (ဖြစ်) လင့်ကစား။ ပေမည့်။ She cut her knee badly, but didn't cry. ❍ I'd love to go to the theatre tonight, but I'm too busy. ❍ The restaurant serves cheap but excellent food. ❍ He's hardworking, but not very clever.
၃။ (ဝိရောဓိနှစ်ခု တစ်ပြိုင်တည်းဖြစ်ခြင်း အနက်ဖြင့်ဆက်သည့်စကားလုံး)။ …လည်း… (ရဲ့)၊ …လည်း …(ရဲ့)။ ဒါပေမဲ့။ He was tired but happy after the long walk.
၄။ (တစ်ခုကို ငြင်းပယ်၍ အခြားတစ်ခုကို အတည်ပြုသည့် အနက်ဖြင့် ဆက်စပ်ပေးသည့် စကားလုံး)။ သော်လည်း။ ပေမည့်လည်း။ It isn't that he tells lies but that he exaggerates.
၅။ မှတစ်ပါး အခြားမရှိ။ I had no alternative but to sign the contract.
၆။ ဒါကတော့။ ‘I'll give you ten pounds to repair the damage. ’‘But that's not nearly enough!’ ❍ ‘I'm getting married. ’‘ But that's wonderful!’ ❍ But that's just not possible!
၇။ (လေးနက်အောင် နှစ်ခါသုံးသည့် စကားလုံးနှစ်ခုအကြားမှ အဆက် စကားလုံး)။ …ဆို …မှ။ …ဆို …ပဲ။ Nothing , but nothing will make me change my mind.
၈။ (ပြောလတ္တံ့သော စကားအတွက် အားနာကြောင်း ကြိုတင်ဖော်ပြ သည့် စကားလုံး)။ သို့သော်လည်း။ I'm sorry but there's nothing we can do to help you.
၉။ (dated or fml ) မ … ဘဲနှင့် မဖြစ်၊ မလုပ် (နိုင်)။ I never pass my old house but I think of the happy years I spent there.
prep မှတစ်ပါး။ ကလွဲ၍။ The problem is anything but easy. ❍ Everyone was there but him. ❍ Nobody but you could be so selfish. ❍ Nothing but trouble will come of this plan.
adv (esp dated or fml ) သာ။ မျှသာ။ ရုံမျှသာ။ He's but a boy. ❍ If I had but known she was ill, I would have visited her. ❍ I don't think we'll succeed. Still, we can but try.
❏ but for sb/sth /'bʌt fǝ/ [IDM ] …သာ မ…ခဲ့လျှင်။ …ကြောင့်သာ မဟုတ်ခဲ့လျှင်။ But for the rain we would have had a nice holiday. ❍ But for the safety-belt I wouldn't be alive today.
❏ but then [IDM ]
၁။ သို့သော်လည်းပဲ။ မည်သို့ဆိုစေ။ ဘယ်လိုပဲဖြစ်ဖြစ်။ The result looks inevitable. But then, anything can happen in football.
၂။ (ရှေ့စကားကို အကြောင်းပြရှင်းလင်းသည့် နောက်စကား နှင့် ဆက်စပ်ရန်သုံးသည့် စကားလုံး)။ …ဆို။ …တာလည်းမပြောနှင့်။ He speaks very good French—but then he did live in Paris for three years.
❏ not only …but also … [IDM ] ထိုမျှမက အခြားလည်း ရှိသေးကြောင်းပြသော စကားလုံး။ သာမက … လည်း။ He is not only arrogant but also selfish.
❏ one cannot/ could not but… [IDM ] (fml ) မ… ချင်၍မရ။ မ…ဘဲမနေနိုင်။ It was a rash thing to do, yet one cannot but admire her courage. ❍ I could not but admit that he was right and I was wrong.
but2 /bʌt/ n
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက်။ ကန့်ကွက်ချက်။
It's your duty to do it, so let's have no buts about it. ❍ There's no time for ifs and buts—you must decide now.
- We’re making good progress, but we’ve still got a long way to go.
- Anna’s a highly intelligent girl, but she’s rather lazy.
- A simple but effective way of filtering water
- What we are about to do is perfectly legal. But please don’t discuss it with anyone.
- His death was not a tragedy, but a release from pain and suffering.
- It was a very complicated operation. But I don’t want to bore you with all the details.
- There’s also the question of how we’re going to pay for this, but we can discuss that some other time.
- Excuse me, but is there a post office around here?
- I’m sorry, but all our operators are busy at the moment.
- She does nothing but grumble all day long.
- I refuse to discuss my medical history with anyone but Dr Grant.
- There’s no alternative but to scrap the whole plan and start again.
- We can but guess at the extent of the problem.
- Several Japanese companies already operate in the UK – Nissan, Honda, Fujitsu, to name but a few.
- ‘I’ve decided to resign.’ ‘But why?’
- But you promised not to do anything without asking me first.
- I never take a bath but the phone rings or someone knocks at the door.
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