Then and there

Definition

then /ðen/ adv ၁။ (က) ထိုစဥ္။ ထိုအခ်ိန္။ အဆိုပါကာလ။ We were living in Wales then. ❍ I'll see you on Friday—we can discuss it then. ❍ Jackie Kennedy, as she then was (ie as her name was at that time), was still only in her twenties. ❍ the wife of the then Prime Minister. (ခ) (ဝိဘတ္ ေနာက္ကထားသံုးသည္။ ) ထိုအခ်ိန္ (မွစ၍၊ အထိ၊ ဆိုလွ်င္)။ From then on he refused to talk about it. ❍ We'll have to manage without a television until then. ❍ She'll have retired by then. Compare now ၁ ၂။ ထို႔ေနာက္။ ၿပီးေနာက္။ I'll have soup first and then chicken. ❍ We had a week in Rome and then went to Vienna. ❍ Finish writing that report, then you can go home. ၃။ ထို႔ျပင္။ လည္းပဲ။ We'll invite Imogen and Sandy, Rob and Kathy, and then there's Laura, Joanna, Catherine and Louise. ၄။ (က) ထိုသို႔ျဖစ္လွ်င္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္။ ဒီလိုဆိုရင္။ If it's not on the table then it'll be in the drawer. ❍ Offer to take him out for lunch, then (ie as a result of this) he'll be in a better mood. ❍ You'll be looking for a new secretary then? (ခ) (ေျပာၿပီး၊ လုပ္ၿပီးသည္ကို ေလးနက္ေစရန္) ကဲ။ So that's it then—you've nothing more to tell me? ❏ (but) then again [ IDM ] (ဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္ကို ေဖာ္ျပရာ၌ သံုးသည္။ ) ျဖစ္ခ်င္ျဖစ္မယ္၊ သြားခ်င္သြားမယ္ …ဒါေပမဲ့။ I might go to the party, but then again I might not. ❏ then and there [ IDM ] = THERE AND THEN

Examples

1. ‘Did you hear him when he left the house?’ ‘Yes
2. I heard him then and when he came back.’
3. A political refugee who was then living in the United States
4. [until/since/by/before then] : I can see you next weekend. Can you wait until then?
5. Back in 1950 Bourton was a sleepy little village
6. but things have changed a lot since then.
7. [the then president/governor/owner etc] : The then Secretary of State
8. Michael Forsyth
9. My grandfather rented 120 Church Street from the then owners
10. W. Collins and Sons.
11. He glanced quickly at Sally and then looked away again.
12. Add the numbers together first – then multiply.
13. First Lewis will give a TV interview. Then comes the main news conference.
14. ‘He won’t resign.’ ‘Then we must force him to leave.’
15. [if... then] : If no one else is willing
16. then I’ll have to do the job myself.
17. ‘We went to the same school.’ ‘You’re old friends then?’
18. You’re not angry with me
19. then?
20. This
21. then
22. was the problem that faced him – he could not do his duty without betraying his friends.
23. All right then
24. I’ll see you back at the hotel.
25. So that’s agreed then – lunch for eight on Christmas Day.