Let alone

Definition

alone /ǝ'lǝƱn/ adj, adv ၁။ (က) အေဖာ္မပါဘဲ။ ထီးတည္း။ (တစ္…)တည္းသာ၊ တည္းေသာ။ 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) တစ္ဦးတည္း။ တစ္ေယာက္တည္း။ ဒိုင္ခံ။ It will be difficult for one person alone. ❍ She raised her family quite alone. ❍ I prefer to work on it alone. (ဂ) အထီး က်န္[ေသာ]။ It was my first experience of living away from home and I felt terribly alone. Compare LONE, LONELY ၂။ ခ်ည္းသက္သက္။ ကသာ။ (တစ္…) တည္းသာ။ 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 ] တစ္ကိုယ္ေတာ္စြန္႔စားသည္။ 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 ] ေနေနသာသာ။ ထားလို႔။ 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.

Examples

1. Shelley is divorced and lives alone.
2. [all alone] : She was all alone in a dark forest.
3. It was forbidden for an unmarried couple to be alone together.
4. [alone with] : Roger hadn’t had a chance before to be alone with Therese.
5. Jim said goodnight and left
6. feeling sad and alone.
7. [alone in the world] : I felt completely alone in the world.
8. He is so severely disabled that he cannot manage alone.
9. Was the killer acting alone?
10. Kazakhstan alone had more than 100 different nationalities.
11. The team earned over a million pounds from television alone last year.
12. He alone was allowed to make decisions on foreign policy.
13. Time alone will show whether the voters made the right choice.