Break even

Definition

even 1 /'i:vn/ adv ၁။ ပင္လွ်င္။ ေတာင္။ ေတာင္မွ။ He never even opened the letter (ie so he certainly didn't read it). ❍ He didn't answer even my letter (ie so he certainly didn't answer any others). ❍ It was cold there even in summer (ie so it must have been very cold in winter). ❍ Even a child can understand it (ie so adults certainly can). ၂။ ပို၍ပင္။ ပိုလို႔ေတာင္။ ထက္။ သာေတာင္။ You know even less about it than I do. မင္းကငါ့ေလာက္ေတာင္ မသိဘူး။ (ငါက မင္းထက္ ပိုသိတယ္။ ) ❍ Sally drives fast, but Jane drives even faster. ❍ She's even more intelligent than her sister. ၃။ သည့္အျပင္။ တဲ့အျပင္။ It's an unattractive building, even ugly/ugly even. ❏ even as [ IDM ] ( fml ) (used as a compound conj ) တစ္ၿပိဳင္တည္းပဲ။ တစ္ခ်ိန္တည္းမွာပဲ။ Even as he shouted the warning the car skidded. ❏ even if/though [ IDM ] (used as conjs ) ရသည့္တိုင္။ ေသာ္လည္း။ လင့္ကစား။ I'll get there, even if I have to walk all the way. ❍ I like her even though she can be annoying at times. ❏ even now/then [ IDM ] ၁။ တာေတာင္။ အခုေတာင္။ I've shown him the photographs but even now he won't believe me. ❍ Even then he would not admit his mistake. ၂။ ( fml ) (with continuous tenses only, often between the auxiliary and the main v ) ယခုပင္လွ်င္။ ခုပဲ။ The troops are even now preparing to march into the city. ❏ even so [ IDM ] (used as a conj ) ေသာ္ျငားလည္း။ ေသာ္လည္းပဲ။ ေပမည့္လည္း။ There are a lot of spelling mistakes; even so, it's quite a good essay. even 2 /'i:vn/ adj ၁။ ညီညာေသာ။ ျပန္႔ျပဴးေသာ။ The footpath is not very even. Compare UNEVEN ၁ ၂။ ပံုမွန္။ ေျပျပစ္ ေသာ။ an even colour ❍ even breathing ❍ Her stitches weren't very even. ❍ This wine cellar stays at an even temperature all year round. Compare UNEVEN ၂ ၃။ (က) တူညီေသာ။ Our scores are now even. (ခ) အတြဲညီေသာ။ လိုက္ဖက္ေသာ။ an even game ❍ I'd say the two players are pretty even. Compare UNEVEN ၃ ၄။ စံုဂဏန္း ျဖစ္ေသာ။ an even number of people ❍ 4, 6, 8, 10, etc are even numbers. Compare ODD ၂ ၅။ ေအးေဆးေသာ။ တည္ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ of an even disposition ❍ an even-temperated baby ❍ She tried to keep her voice quiet and even (ie not showing any emotion). v ညီမွ်ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ ညီေစသည္။ Chelsea evened the score just after half-time. ❏ be/get even (with sb) [ IDM ] ( infml ) တန္ျပန္သည္။ လက္တံု႔ျပန္သည္။ ကလဲ့စားေခ်သည္။ He swore he'd get even with his brother. ❏ break even [ IDM ] လုပ္ငန္းတစ္ခုကို အ႐ံႈးမရိွဘဲ လက္စသတ္သည္။ We should begin to break even later in the year. ❏ an even chance (of doing sth) [ IDM ] ၅၀ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္း ေသခ်ာတယ္။ I'd say she has an even chance of winning the match. ❍ He's got a less than even chance. ❏ even-handed adj တရားမွ်တေသာ။ an even-handed approach ❍ even-handed justice. ❏ even money; evens [ IDM ] (အေလာင္းအစား) ဆတူ အေလ်ာ္အစား။ အလားအလာ ၅၀ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္း စီ ရိွေသာ။ The evens favourite ❍ ‘Will he win?’ ‘It's even money. ’ ❏ even out [ PHRV ] ေျပသြားသည္။ ညီညာသြားသည္။ ပံုမွန္ ျဖစ္သည္။ The path rose steeply for a while and then evened out. ❍ House prices keep rising and falling but they should eventually even out. ❏ even sth out [ PHRV ] မွ်ေအာင္ျဖန္႔ေပးသည္။ Payments can be evened out on a monthly basis over the year. ❍ He tried to even out the distribution of work among his employees. ❏ even (sth) up [ PHRV ] ညီမွ်သြားသည္။ ညီမွ်သြားေစသည္။ Moving John and Michael to the back row will even things up a bit (ie make a more balanced group). ❏ on an even keel [ IDM ] (စိတ္ခံစားမႈ) ပံုမွန္ျပန္ျဖစ္သည္၊ အနည္ထိုင္သည္။ It took him a long time to get back on an even keel after his wife died. evenly adv : evenly balanced/matched ❍ evenly divided/distributed ❍ Breathe slowly and evenly. ❍ ‘I shan't be coming next week,’ she said evenly. evenness /'i:vǝnnǝs/ n [U]

Examples

1. It always feels cold in this room
2. even in summer.
3. Even the dog refused to eat it.
4. Lucy’s face brightened a little – she even managed to smile.
5. [not even] : He never stopped working
6. not even at Christmas.
7. They didn’t even offer me a cup of tea.
8. [even now] : Even now
9. after all these years
10. he cannot mention her name without crying.
11. [even then] : They’re going to spend £5 billion on our railway network
12. and even then it won’t be as good as the French system.
13. She admits things are bad
14. but argues they were even worse under the previous government.
15. If anything
16. local people are treated even more harshly than foreigners.
17. Her latest novel was very good
18. even brilliant.
19. The quarrel might have ended in violence – murder
20. even.
21. Why's she going out with that creep? I literally can't even.
22. When I’m hungover
23. I just can’t even.