No more

Definition

more /mↄ:(r) / indef det, indef pron ~ (sth) (than…) (ထက္) ပိုေသာ။ ေနာက္ထပ္။ (က) ( det ): more people/ cars/ money/ imagination ❍ hit the target with more luck than skill ❍ Would you like some more coffee? ❍ Only two more days to go! ❍ More than 10 000 people took part in the demonstration. ❍ I know many more people who'd like to come. (ခ) ( pron ) ေနာက္ထပ္။ I couldn't possibly eat any more. ❍ I can't stand much more of this. ❍ What more can I say (ie in addition to what has already been said)? ❍ She earns a lot more than I do. ❍ I'll take three more. ❍ room for no more than three cars ❍ I hope we'll see more of you (ie see you more often). ❍ MUCH indef det, indef pron adv ၁။ (သာလြန္အဆင့္ျပအျဖစ္)။ သာ၍၊ ပို၍။ (ထက္) သာ၍၊ ပို၍။ She was more intelligent/ generous/ frightened than her sister. ❍ She read the letter more carefully the second time. ၂။ ပို၍။ programmes that appeal to the more sophisticated viewer ❍ a course for more advanced students. ၃။ ထက္။ ေနာက္ထပ္။ I like her more than her husband. ❍ Try to concentrate more on your work. ❍ repeat sth once more (ie one more time) ❍ It had more the appearance of a deliberate crime than of an accident. ❏ more and more [ IDM ] ၁။ တစ္ေန႔တျခား တိုး၍ (လာသည္)။ More and more people are buying home computers. ❍ She spends more and more time alone in her room. ၂။ ပို၍ပို၍။ တိုး၍တိုး၍။ I am becoming more and more irritated by his behaviour. ❏ more or less [ IDM ] ၁။ လုနီးပါး။ ေလာက္။ I've more or less finished the book. ၂။ ခန္႔။ ေလာက္။ နီးပါး။ မွ်။ It took more or less a whole day to paint the ceiling. ❍ I can earn $200 a night, more or less, as a waiter. ❏ more than happy, glad, willing, etc [ IDM ] မကေသာ။ I'm more than happy to take you there in my car. ငါ့ကားနဲ႔ မင္းကို လိုက္ပို႔ဖို႔ ဘာမွ် အပန္းမႀကီးပါဘူး။ ❍ It was a more than generous offer. သူ႕ကမ္းလွမ္းခ်က္က ရက္ေရာ တာ ထက္ေတာင္ ပိုလြန္းတယ္လို႔ ဆိုရမွာပါ။ ❏ no more [ IDM ] ၁။ အလားတူ မ(တတ္) ႏိုင္ေသာ။ He couldn't lift the table and no more could I. ၂။ မပိုေသာ။ မသာေသာ။ You're no more capable of speaking Chinese than I am. ❍ It's no more than a mile to the supermarket. ❏ no more than/ nothing more than/ not much more than [ IDM ] မွ်သာ။ ေလာက္သာ။ Signing the forms is no more than a formality. ❍ My new boss is not much more than a kid! ❏ what is more [ IDM ] ဒါ့အျပင္။ ၿပီးေတာ့။ He's dirty, and what's more he smells.

Examples

1. Scotland has become more prosperous in recent years.
2. Teenage marriages are more likely to end in divorce.
3. [more...than] : The storm was more violent than we expected.
4. [much/far/a lot more] : Lizzie is obviously a lot more intelligent than the other girls.
5. [a little/bit more] : Would you speak a little more slowly so I can understand what you’re saying?
6. No matter what her brother gets
7. she always wants more.
8. [more...than] : Ken already earns more than his father ever did.
9. We’ve had five times more rain than normal for this time of the year.
10. [much/far/a lot more] : The merger has created far more problems than it has solved.
11. [more than ever] : People in the UK are spending more than ever on health and fitness.
12. You should get out more and meet other people.
13. Reducing the tax on petrol would simply encourage people to use their cars more.
14. [see more of someone] : I hope we’ll see more of you when you’ve finished your course.
15. [more...than] : Rural life has changed more in the last 40 years than at any other time.
16. I loved you more than anything else in the world.
17. If you need more paper
18. there’s some in the drawer.
19. That’s all I know. I can’t tell you any more.
20. [one/two/three etc more] : We’ll have to wait for two more days.
21. [some/any more of something] : I’m not wasting any more of my money on lottery tickets.
22. [more of the same] : Today there will be sunshine and showers. Tomorrow
23. more of the same.
24. [more on that later] : There are a few changes to the programme – but more on that later.
25. [no more] : We have no more money in the account.
26. [nothing more] : There’s nothing more to say.
27. [more...than] : What she did was more of a mistake than a crime.
28. I was more amused than shocked by what she told me.
29. The words were spoken more in sadness than in anger.
30. Mr Carling doesn’t work here any more.
31. No more will prisoners have to suffer the misery of being locked in their cells for 23 hours a day.
32. No more worries about money now!
33. No more excuses! If you’re late again
34. you’re sacked.