Much of a muchness

Definition

much /mʌtʃ / indef det, indef pron (used with uncountable ns , esp after negative vs , in questions, or after as, how, so or too ) မ်ားျပားေသာ ပမာဏ၊ အေရအတြက္။ (က) ( det ) မ်ားမ်ား။ မ်ားမ်ားစားစား။ သိပ္။ I don't have much money with me. ❍ Did you have much difficulty finding the house? ❍ There's never very much activity here on Sundays. ❍ How much water do you need? ❍ Take as much time as you like. ❍ There was so much traffic that we were an hour late. ❍ VERY adv (ခ) ( pron ) အမ်ားႀကီး။ မ်ားမ်ား။ ‘Is there any mail?’ ‘Not (very) much. ’ ❍ She never eats much for breakfast. ❍ Did she say much about her children? ❍ How much is it? ဘယ္ေဈးလဲ။ ❍ Relax as much as you can. ❍ I’ve got far too much to do. ❍ I lay awake for much of the night. ❍ We didn't get to see much else. adv အလြန္။ သိပ္။ (ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း အသံုးျပဳၾကသည္။ ) ၁။ (မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္းျပႀကိယာႏွင့္ ရံဖန္ရံခါ သံုးသည္။ ) I didn't enjoy the book (very) much. ❍ He isn't in the office (very) much (ie often). ❍ Thank you very much for the flowers. ❍ I would very much like to see you again. ❍ It doesn't much matter what you wear. ❍ Much to her surprise he came back the next day. ၂။ (က) (နာမဝိေသသနအျဖစ္ အသံုး ျပဳသည့္ ႀကိယာႏွင့္ လည္းေကာင္း၊ afraid, alive, aware စသည္တို႔ႏွင့္ လည္းေကာင္းသံုးသည္။ ) He was much angered by the report. ❍ I'm very much aware of the lack of food supplies. ❍ the much- criticized publicity campaign ❍ a much-needed holiday. (ခ) (သာလြန္အဆင့္၊ အသာလြန္ဆံုးအဆင့္တို႔ႏွင့္ သံုးသည္။ ) much slower/ heavier/ louder ❍ much more expensive ❍ much more confidently ❍ She's much better today. ❍ That was much the best meal I've had for a long time. ❍ I would never willingly go anywhere by boat, much less go on a cruise. ❍ VERY muchness n ❏ as much [ IDM ] သေလာက္။ သမွ်။ Please help me get this job—you know I would do as much for you. ❍ ‘Roger stole the money. ’ ‘I thought/ said as much (ie That is what I thought/ said)!’ ❏ as much as sb can do [ IDM ] အတတ္ႏိုင္ဆံုး။ အာဏာကုန္။ No ice- cream, thanks—it was as much as I could do to finish that enormous first course! ❏ much as [ IDM ] ေသာ္လည္း။ Much as I would like to stay, I really must go home. ❏ much of a muchness [ IDM ] တန္းတူရည္တူ။ ပိန္မသာ လိမ္မသာ။ The two candidates are much of a muchness—it's hard to choose between them. ❏ much the same [ IDM ] မထူးျခားလွ။ The patient is much the same this morning. ❏ not much good at sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) သိပ္မဟုတ္လွ။ ။ I'm not much good at tennis. ❏ not much of a… [ IDM ] အေတာ္ႀကီး မဟုတ္ပါ။ He's not much of a tennis player. ❍ I'm not much of a correspondent. ကြၽန္ေတာ္ စာအဆက္အသြယ္ သိပ္လုပ္ေလ့ မရိွပါ။ ❏ this much [ IDM ] အခိုင္အမာ၊ ရဲရဲႀကီး (ေျပာရဲတယ္)။ I'll say this much for him—he never leaves a piece of work unfinished. ❍ This much is certain, you will never work in the police force again.

Examples

1. It’s a small car that doesn’t use much fuel.
2. I don’t pretend to know much about art.
3. [very much] : It wouldn’t cost very much to have your old bike repaired.
4. [much of] : Much of the evidence was gathered in 1991.
5. [too much] : We can’t talk here. There’s too much noise.
6. [so much] : He spent so much time with Claudia
7. it seemed as if they were never apart.
8. [(very) much bigger/better/worse etc] : Richard’s much happier now that he’s got a permanent job.
9. He had married a woman very much younger than himself.
10. I can’t walk much further.
11. Advisers were urging the President to act much more aggressively.
12. [much improved] : Last year BP achieved much improved results.
13. [much the biggest/best etc] : I got lots of lovely presents
14. but yours was much the nicest.
15. [much the same] : If I’m going to a club
16. I wear much the same as I wear for work.
17. [(very) much like] : The interior of the house was much like the outside – ugly and dilapidated.
18. She looks very much like her mother.
19. [(pretty) much as] : The trial proceeded pretty much as he expected it would.
20. Do you travel much?
21. [not very much] : People here don’t use public transport very much.
22. [too much] : The trouble with Jean is she talks too much.
23. [so much] : Aunt Edie laughed so much that her sides ached.
24. [as much as] : I won’t be running about as much as I usually do.
25. [how much] : It’s amazing how much things have changed since we first came to live here.
26. [not see much of someone] : We don’t see much of Peter these days.
27. He doesn’t seem to care much about the children’s education.
28. [very much] : It’s obvious that they love each other very much.
29. [be (very) much concerned/aware] : We are very much aware of all the risks involved in genetic engineering.