A little

Definition

little / 'lÇtl / adj (littler, littlest အစား smaller, smallest ကို သံုးေလ့ရိွသည္။ ) ၁။ (က) ေသးေသာ။ ငယ္ေသာ။ ကေလး။ စိုးစဥ္း။ အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ a little purse ❍ a house with a little garden ❍ a little group of tourists ❍ She gave a little movement of impatience. ❍ There’s a little shop on the corner that sells bread. (ခ) ေသးေသာ။ ငယ္ေသာ။ ကေလး။ စိုးစဥ္း။ အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ the little hand of the clock နာရီလက္တံတို။ ❍ ‘Which packet would you prefer?’ ‘I’ll take the little one. ’ ❍ SMALL ၂။ ကေလး။ a nice little room ❍ a sweet little child ❍ a funny little restaurant ❍ What a nasty little man! ၃။ အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ It’s only a little way now. ❍ You may have to wait a little while. ၄။ မေျပာပေလာက္ေသာ။ a little mistake / problem. ၅။ ငယ္ေသာ။ I had curly hair when I was little. ❍ My little (ie younger) brother is 18. indef det ( used with uncountable ns ) အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ မဆိုစေလာက္။ There was little doubt in my mind. ❍ I have very little time for reading. ❍ We had little rain all summer. ❍ There’s little point in telling her now. ဒီအခ်ိန္မွ သူ႕ကိုေျပာလို႔ ဘာထူးမွာလဲ။ ❍ MUCH indef pron (used as a n when preceded by the ) အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ I understood little of what he said. ❍ We read a lot of poetry at school—I remember very little now. ❍ The little that I have seen of his work is excellent. adv အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ အနည္းအက်ဥ္း။ မမ်ားေသာ။ He is little known as an artist. ❍ She left little more than an hour ago. ❍ I slept very little last night. ❍ Little does he know (ie He does not know) what trouble he’s in. a little indef det အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ a little milk / sugar / tea ❍ Could you give a little more attention to spelling? ❍ I need a little help to move these books. ❍ It caused not a little (ie a great deal of) confusion. ❏ a little indef pron ၁။ (က) အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ If you’ve got any spare milk, could you give me a little? (ခ) အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ I’ve only read a little of the book so far. ၂။ အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ After a little he got up and left. ❍ We left the car and walked for a little. (also a little bit) adv အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ She seemed a little afraid of going inside. ❍ These shoes are a little (bit) too big for me. ❍ She was not a little (ie very) worried about the expense. ❏ little by little [ IDM ] တေရြ႕ေရြ႕။ တျဖည္းျဖည္း။ တစ္တိတစ္တိ။ တစ္စတစ္စ။ နည္းနည္းခ်င္း။ Little by little the snow disappeared. ❍ His English is improving little by little. ❏ little finger ( US also pinkie ) n လက္သန္း။ ❍ HAND 1 ❏ littleness n ေသးငယ္ျခင္း။ မေျပာပေလာက္ျခင္း။ the littleness of man in the universe. ❏ little or nothing [ IDM ] မဆိုစေလာက္။ She said little or nothing about her experience. ❏ the little people n [pl] ဒ႑ာရီလာ နတ္သမီး၊ မွင္စာကေလးမ်ားစသည္။ ❏ make little of sth [ IDM ] ၁။ = MAKE LIGHT OF STH (LIGHT 3 ) ၂။ အလွ်င္း။ မသိသေလာက္။ It’s in Russian — I can make little of it. Compare LESS

Examples

1. There is little time to prepare for the exams.
2. Little has been revealed about his background.
3. She has done little today besides sleep.
4. [too little] : There was too much rain and too little sun.
5. [very little] : He’s an excellent manager
6. so there’s very little tension in the office.
7. [so little] : I’ve got so much to do and so little time to do it in.
8. [little or no] : She had trained herself to show little or no emotion
9. whatever happened.
10. [little of] : Jordan has lost little of his Irish accent.
11. [as little as possible] : He always tries to pay the workers as little as possible.
12. [the little] : He didn’t earn much money
13. and he gambled away the little he had saved.
14. [very little] : In her last years I saw her very little.
15. Our relationship has changed very little over the years.
16. [as little as possible] : They spoke of him as little as possible.
17. [little known] : Kang was little known outside of China.
18. [little more/better] : You accused me of being little better than a thief (=almost as bad as a thief).