much as

Anglisy

Etimôlôjia

Avy amin'ny anglisy much (midika hoe ampiasaina hampitahana, hampisehoana, na hanondroana ny habetsahan'ny zavatra iray (anglisy: used to compare, demonstrate, or indicate the quantity of something)) + anglisy as.

Mpampitohy

much as

na dia
- (As) much as I'd like to join you, I'm afraid I can't.
- The Blackfeet knew and marked him as he passed; their eyes glared with vindictive fury; he was within bowshot of their ambuscade; yet, much as they thirsted for his blood, they forbore to launch a shaft; sparing him for the moment, that he might lead them to their prey. – I, XVI, pejy 168
- And then bills were sent in, and the question arose, what could Jude do with his great-aunt's heavy old furniture if he left the town to travel he knew not whither? This, and the necessity of ready money, compelled him to decide on an auction, much as he would have preferred to keep the venerable goods. – VI, pejy 360
- Much as I wish that I had not to write this chapter, I know that I shall have to swallow many such bitter draughts in the course of this narrative. And I cannot do otherwise, if I claim to be a worshipper of Truth. – I, Child Marriage, pejy 26
amin'ny fomba mitovy amin'ny
- You cook it much as you would a potato.
- [H]e disappeared into his house much as a startled weazel makes for its hole. – pejy 138
- [Kartar] Lalvani does not undervalue the achievements of the Mughal Empire, but its canals and irrigation tanks and roads had fallen into decay after the terrible Persian and Afghan invasions of the mid-18th century. For his part, [Shashi] Tharoor cannot forbear to praise the achievements of men like , whose Godavari Delta irrigation scheme remains much as he left it in 1852. – Ferdinand Mount, Umbrageousness, Mary-Kay Wilmers, London Review of Books, London, LRB Ltd., 39, 17, 0260-9592, 848524821, 7 Septambra 2017
- Much as a single shop may pass down through the children and grandchildren of a family, losing or gaining with each generation, its fortunes and its reputation in flux, so the British high street has been improved and degraded through successive waves of stewardship – Tom Lamont, The butcher’s shop that lasted 300 years (give or take), The Guardian, London, Guardian News & Media, 0261-3077, 229952407, 1 Septambra 2020