Since no one else has applied for the job we may just as well give it to Smith - Поскольку никто больше не претендует на эту работу, то вполне логично отдать ее Смиту
I might just as well go home. I don"t see why I should stay around waiting - Я лучше пойду домой. Я не понимаю, почему я тут должен стоять и ждать
Our holidays were ruined by the weather - we might just as well have stayed at home - Погода нам испортила весь отпуск - уж лучше бы мы остались дома
2 just as well
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1) тем лучше, желательно, к лучшему
‘I have no common sense.’ ‘In that case it may be just as well that you should leave public life.’ (J. Galsworthy, ‘The Patrician’, part II, ch. XVII) - - У меня нет здравого смысла. - В таком случае вам лучше не заниматься общественной деятельностью.
En route to the executive mezzanine, he encountered no one he knew. It was just as well. If he had been spoken to, whatever question had been put, he would have snarled a heated answer. (A. Hailey, ‘Airport’, part I, ch. 8) - По пути к себе Мел не встретил никого из подчиненных. Тем лучше: обратись сейчас к нему кто-нибудь с вопросом, он мог бы ответить резкостью.
2) точно так же; с тем же успехом
All other articles can be obtained just as well on the spot. (OED) - Все другие предметы можно с таким же успехом достать на месте.
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5 just a line to say that all goes well
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7 равно как и
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