Just on

Definition

just 1 / dʒʌst / adj ၁။ တရားေသာ။ တရားမွ်တေသာ။ a just and honourable ruler ❍ a just decision/ law/ society ❍ be just in one's dealings with sb ❍ The just demands of the students must be met. ၂။ ထိုက္တန္ေသာ။ a just reward/ punishment ❍ get one's just deserts (ie get what one deserves). See also JUSTICE ❏ the just n [pl v ] သမာသမတ္ရိွသူမ်ား။ ❏ justly adv မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္။ မွ်မွ်တတ။ တရားသျဖင့္။ act justly ❍ be justly proud of sth ❍ a justly famous poem. just 2 / dʒʌst / adv ၁။ (က) (before ns and noun phrases) တိတိ။ အံကိုက္။ သက္သက္။ It's just two o'clock. ❍ This gadget is just the thing for getting those nails out. ❍ This jacket is just my size. ❍ It's just my luck (ie the sort of bad luck I usually have) to be on holiday during the worst weather of the year. (ခ) (before adjs , advs and prepositional phrases) အေနေတာ္။ အံကိုက္။ တေထရာ တည္း။ ခြၽတ္စြပ္။ (ဤ၊ ထိုေနရာ) တြင္။ The sauce tastes just right. ❍ Put it just here/ there. ❍ You're just in time. ❍ She looks just like her mother. (ဂ) (before clauses) ပဲ။ ပင္။ အတိုင္း။ It's just what I wanted! ❍ It was just where I expected it to be. ❍ Just what do you think you're doing? ၂။ ~ as (က) အတိုင္း။ It's just as I thought. (ခ) အခိုက္။ The clock struck six just as I arrived. (ဂ) (before an adj/ adv followed by as ) အတိုင္း။ လိုပင္။ She's just as clever as her sister. ❍ You can get there just as cheaply by air as by train. ၃။ (esp after only ) (က) ႐ံုမွ်။ ႐ံု။ just manage to pass the entrance exam ❍ just miss a target ❍ I can only just reach the shelf, even when I stand on tiptoe. ❍ She only just caught the train. (ခ) (used before prepositional phrases of time or measurement) အခိုက္။ ႐ံုမွ်။ It happened just before Christmas. ❍ He weighs just over 60 kilos. ၄။ (with perfect tenses; in US English with the simple past tense) ခုတင္။ ခုပဲ။ ခုပင္။ I've just seen John at the doctor's. ❍ When you arrived he had only just left. ❍ He has just been telling us about his trip to Rome. ❍ ( esp US ) I just saw him a moment ago. ၅။ (က) (esp with the present and past continuous tenses) ခုတင္။ ခုပဲ။ ခုပင္။ I'm just finishing my book. ❍ I was just beginning to enjoy myself when we had to go home. ❍ I'm just coming! ❍ I'm just off (ie I am leaving now). (ခ) ~ about/ going to do sth (referring to the immediate future) လုပ္တုန္း။ ခါနီး။ I was just going to tell you when you interrupted. ❍ The potatoes are just about to boil over. ၆။ ႐ံုမွ်။ ႐ံု။ ဒီအတိုင္း။ just an ordinary day ❍ Don't start worrying just because she's an hour late. ❍ I can't just drop all my commitments. ❍ This essay is just not good enough. ❍ I didn't mean to upset you. It's just that I had to tell somebody. ❍ This is not just another disaster movie: it is a masterpiece. ၇။ (used, esp with the imperative, to cut short a possible argument or delay or to appeal for attention or understanding) ၾကည့္စမ္း။ ၾကည့္စမ္းပါဦး။ Just listen to what I'm saying, will you! ❍ Just try to understand! ❍ Just look at this! ၈။ ~ (for sth/ to do sth) တည္းသာ။ သက္သက္။ There is just one way of saving him. ❍ I waited an hour just to see you. ❍ just for fun/ a laugh/ a joke. ၉။ (used in making a polite request, excuse, interruption, etc) တစ္ဆိတ္ေလာက္။ တစ္ခ်က္ေလာက္။ Could you just help me carry this table, please? ❍ I've just got a few things to do in town first. ၁၀။ (used with might , could , or may to indicate a slight possibility of sth happening or being true) …ေကာင္း…မည္။ Try his home number __ he might just/ just might be in. ❍ This could just be the deciding factor. ၁၁။ ( infml ) (က) (used for emphasis) တကယ္ပဲ။ အဟုတ္ပဲ။ တကယ့္ကို။ The food was just wonderful! ❍ I can just imagine his reaction. (ခ) (used to express agreement) တကယ္ပဲ။ 'He's rather pompous. ' 'Isn't he just (ie He certainly is)!’ ❏ it is just as well (that…) [ IDM ] ေနရာက်တယ္။ ေကာင္းသြားတယ္။ မွန္သြားတယ္။ It's just as well that we didn't leave any later or we'd have missed the train. ❏ just about [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ အားလံုးလိုလို။ နီးပါး။ I've met just about everyone. ❍ 'Did you reach your sales target?' 'Just about. ' ၂။ … ေလာက္ဆိုလွ်င္။ He should be arriving just about now. ❏ just like that [ IDM ] မေျပာမဆို။ ဆိုင္းမဆင့္ ဗံုမဆင့္။ He left his wife and children, just like that! ❏ just a minute/ moment/ second [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခဏ ေလာက္။ တစ္ေအာင့္ေလာက္။ 'Is Mr Schofield available?' 'Just a second, please, I'll check. ' ❏ just now [ IDM ] ၁။ ေလာေလာဆယ္။ ခုခ်ိန္မွာ။ Come and see me later __ I'm busy just now. ၂။ ေလာေလာဆယ္။ ခုတေလာ။ Business is good just now. ၃။ အခုတင္။ I saw him just now. ❏ just on [ IDM ] ( infml ) (esp with numbers) နီးပါး။ နီးနီး။ It's just on six o'clock. ❏ just so [ IDM ] ေနထားတက်။ စနစ္တက်။ She cannot bear an untidy desk. Everything must be just so. ❏ (it's/ that's) just too bad [ IDM ] ( infml ) (often used to show lack of sympathy) ဒါေတာ့ မတတ္ႏိုင္ဘူး။ ‘I've left my purse at home’. 'That's just too bad __ we're not going back now. ' Compare TOO BAD (BAD) ❏ not just yet [ IDM ] ေလာေလာဆယ္ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္။ I can't give you the money just yet. ❏ one might just as well be/ do sth [ IDM ] …တာမွ ေကာင္းဦးမယ္။ The weather was so bad last weekend we might just as well have stayed at home.

Examples

1. I can’t come now. I’m just putting the children to bed.
2. [just now/at the moment/at present] : Mr Reynolds is busy just now
3. but he’ll see you after lunch.
4. I don’t feel like talking to anyone just at the moment.
5. [just then/at that moment] : Just then a knock at the door interrupted our conversation.
6. [be just going/about to do something] : Mahmud was just about to leave when someone called his name.
7. I was just going to ask you the same question.
8. [just when/as] : Just when you think it’s all over
9. the trouble starts again.
10. Mum’s just gone down to the shops.
11. Andy had just arrived in Australia the day before.
12. Susan was just telling me about your new job.
13. [only just] : I’ve only just started
14. so I can’t tell you anything yet.
15. [just yesterday/last week etc] : Just last week it was freezing
16. and now it’s too hot.
17. The medicine costs just a few pence to produce.
18. He quit the project after just four months.
19. There’s a little bookshop just round the corner.
20. It was just a silly mistake.
21. We’re just a small business employing 15 staff.
22. We just wanted to make sure everyone was safe.
23. In my opinion
24. the argument is just about money.
25. No
26. I don’t want to buy anything. I’m just looking.
27. The bill came to just £3
28. 552.
29. William was just five months and eleven days old.
30. It’s just twenty-three minutes past five.
31. [just on] : We left just on the stroke of midnight.
32. Thank you so much. It was just what I wanted.
33. [just the thing/place/person etc] : It’s just the place for a picnic.
34. It was just awful seeing her so miserable.
35. I just can’t believe what’s happened.
36. Just exactly what do these lines represent?
37. Now
38. just calm down and tell me what the trouble is.
39. Just look at that dress she’s wearing!
40. The four girls just managed to squeeze into the back of Rick’s car.
41. We should just get there in time if we hurry.
42. [only just] : He did pass his final exam – but only just.
43. Could I just borrow your pen for a second?