1. just
He just left.
If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.
Rather than putting off this meeting, why don't we just call it off?
A really perceptive person can figure out a whole situation with just a few clues. That's the kind of person I want you to become.
Being a good conversationalist does not just mean being a good speaker of English.
The question is whether Tom was planning to meet Mary or just met her by chance.
He just naturally avoids everything that is intense, difficult or strenuous.
Just when I was getting the hang of things, I was in a traffic accident and had to stay two months in the hospital.
Tom would often make mistakes purposely just so the teacher would notice him.
Considering all I've eaten all day is just one slice of bread, I'm not really all that hungry.
I don't need to sound like a native speaker, I just want to be able to speak fluently.
I have a hard time seeing the logic of this latest decision of his. He just isn't as sharp as he used to be.
He puts on a show of being impartial and unbiased, but I think he's just a guy with no opinion of his own.
I've been thinking about marriage a lot, and I think we should just do it.
If you raise an eyebrow, it can mean "I want to have sex with you", but also "I find that what you just said is completely idiotic."
2. justice
Justice is expensive.
This figure is supposed to represent Marilyn Monroe, but I don't think it does her justice.
Making a vandal repaint a wall is ‘creative justice’.
When the trusted confidant of the person who conducted a hostile takeover of the company betrayed him, it was a sort of retributive justice.
Justice is to judge men on their own merits, not according to their names or their ideas.
So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, and who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity.
There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity — the law of nature, and of nations.
Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give to each one that to which he is entitled. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of matters divine and human, and the comprehension of what is just and what is unjust.
I'll go call somebody up from the justice department.
Out of a sense of justice, I said to the leader of the biker gang: "What you are doing is a crime! Be ashamed of yourselves!".
I must needs do him that justice to declare, that I never observed in him but an abhorrence to all base things.
In a court of justice women are more often found guilty of perjury than men.
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
3. unjust
Resistance to unjust laws.
Women have been resigned to unjust treatment for too long.
an unjust law; unjust punishment; an unjust judge; an unjust accusation
Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give to each one that to which he is entitled. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of matters divine and human, and the comprehension of what is just and what is unjust.
Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.
4. fair
Winning the competition is important. However, fair play is more important. You need to understand that winning is not the most important thing.
Fair competition is necessary for the healthy growth of industry.
Fair enough!
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
I had a dream last night, about silk and fine cloth or about equality and fair trial.
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts, Of beauty rich and rare; In history’s page let every stage, Advance Australia Fair!
In joyful strains then let us sing: “Advance Australia Fair!”
We insist that during the next three days you make decisions which are fair to all generations and which show an active concern for the environment.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
I will not say play fair but I would wish that you refrain from indiscreet acts.
Aiming at a fair selection, the test's subject will be the same for all of you scientists of the world: write a scientific publication in English!
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
She hit upon the idea of staging what she calls vintage fairs. /fɛər/
The missing 6-year-old has fair hair, green eyes and was last seen dressed in a yellow t-shirt.
a book fair / the Frankfurt Book Fair / a trade fair (=where companies show their newest products)
5. a
It's a surprise.
Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.
It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.
It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day.
If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.
He compiled a Japanese folklore anthology for use in schools.
Your words of encouragement meant a lot to me.
Your dream of becoming a baseball player will come true if you try hard.
Once you skip a lesson, it's hard to catch up with your classmates.
The policeman talked to the children in as friendly a manner as he could.
Hypothetically a person can live a perfect life without sinning.
He is a primary school teacher, so he is used to dealing with children.
In addition to taking the regular tests, we have to hand in a long essay.
Will it be necessary for us to buy a book for this class?
Who can read the heroic deeds of brave men without a feeling of respect and admiration?
6. Present Perfect
7. simply
He lived simply.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty lady is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Instead of being here to work, you get the sense that he's simply a permanent fixture here.
This is why Tatoeba is multilingual. But not that kind of multilingual. Not the kind where languages are simply being paired up together, and where some pairs are left behind.
Still others simply travel around America in recreational vehicles, seeing parts of the country they had been too busy to see before.
I, Stallone, am not such as to be scared simply of being the guinea pig for some test.
Simply follow the instructions below, and in no time you will be printing full color documents just as easily and quickly as black and white.
Wars don't simply start like winter starts, but rather it is people that start a war.
Immaculate conception simply means that the Virgin Mary herself was born without original sin. Virgin birth is how Christ came about.
Simply put in a sample of your urine and the computer will diagnose your problem and tell you what you can do about it.
Они просто не знают|They simply don’t know
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Philadelphia's nickname, "the City of Brotherly Love," is simply a translation from the Greek roots of the city's name.
8. merely
Are you certain that you lost your book, or did you merely misplace it?
merely existing
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
When he claims to desire eternal life, in reality man merely wishes to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death.
Superstitions derive from the inability of men to acknowledge that coincidences are merely coincidences.
There is also one type of idealism that says even without strength or intelligence you can do anything if you can merely persist.
As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.
Truth burns and destroys all elements, showing that they are merely its shadow.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Japanese students seem not merely to be extremely reserved, but to have at times almost a complete reluctance to speak.
We need to separate the brilliant candidates from the merely very good.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
9. just do what I say
10. justify
Can you justify your action?
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Now the company can justify such expenditure.
I am aware that some question or justify the events of 9/11. But let us be clear: al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Don't drag out Chinese sayings about the importance of an environment conducive learning just to justify moving house for a child's entrance exams!
Justify your attitude, come on, justify being there when it all happened.
You cannot justify child abuse.
I've been waiting for an hour. You better justify your absence.
I don’t know how they can justify those ticket prices.
These are important reasons witch justify supporting this project.
People can always find a way to justify any action, no matter how evil.
I can't really justify taking another day off work.
justify their costs
"You have to do something to justify being out 24 hours a day."
11. only
Only time will tell.
When applying to American universities, your TOEFL score is only one factor.
The only trouble I've ever had was dealing with people who didn't like my personality.
It's presumptuous for humans to assume that our task is to do what only God can do.
Only those who risk going too far will know how far one can go.
Although rainforests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there.
Roger Miller's father died when he was only one year old and his mother became sick soon after, so he was sent to live with his uncle in Erick, Oklahoma.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
She's only two years old, but she can already count to 100.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
The only thing on the table that I normally wouldn't eat is that stuff on the yellow plate.
Questioned about his policies, the candidate gave only vague answers.
Tom's criminal record consists of only two drunken driving citations.
You say I should know him quite well, but as a matter of fact, I was introduced to him only last week.
Plenty of opportunities will present themselves, if only you are awake to them.