till

英 [tɪl]

美 [tɪl]

conj./prep.  直到; 直到...为止
n.  (大商店中的)交款处，收银台; (现金出纳机的)放钱的抽屉
v.  耕作; 犁地

复数：tills　现在分词：tilling　过去式：tilled　过去分词：tilled　第三人称单数：tills　

中考高考TOEFL考研

Oxford 3000 / Collins.3 / BNC.2835 / COCA.4897

习惯用语

n.

have, etc. your fingers in the till
• 偷自己工作单位的钱；内盗；监守自盗
  to be stealing money from the place where you work

牛津词典

conj.

prep.

prep.

noun

noun

• （大商店中的）交款处，收银台
  the place where you pay for goods in a large shop/store
  1. Please pay at the till.
     请在交款处付款。
  2. a long queue at the till
     收款处的长队
• （现金出纳机的）放钱的抽屉
  the drawer where the money is put in a cash register

verb

• 耕作；犁地
  to prepare and use land for growing crops

柯林斯词典

• PREP (常于口语与非正式书面语中代替 until)
  In spoken English and informal written English,tillis often used instead ofuntil.
  1. They had to wait till Monday to ring the bank manager...
     他们必须等到周一才能给银行经理打电话。
  2. I've survived till now, and will go on doing so without help from you.
     我一直努力活到了现在，而且没有你的帮助也能继续活下去。
  3. Tillis also a conjunction.
     
  4. I hadn't left home till I was nineteen...
     直到 19 岁我才离开家。
  5. They slept till the alarm bleeper woke them at four.
     他们一直睡到4点钟被寻呼机闹钟叫醒。

Note that you only usetilloruntilwhen you are talking about time. You do not use these words to talk about place or position. Instead, you should useas far asorup to.Then you'll be riding with us as far as the village?... We walked up to where his bicycle was.
注意只有在谈及时间时才用 till 或 until。在谈及地点或位置时不用这两个词，而应用as far as或up to：Then you'll be riding with us as far as the village (然后你会坐我们的车一直坐到那个村庄)，We walked up to where his bicycle was (我们一直走到他放自行车的地方)。

• N-COUNT (商店等处的)现金出纳机，收银机
  In a shop or other place of business, atillis a counter or cash register where money is kept, and where customers pay for what they have bought.
  1. ...long queues at tills that make customers angry.
     收银台前令顾客恼火的长队

in AM, use 美国英语用 cash register


• N-COUNT (收银机中的)钱柜，放钱的抽屉
  Atillis the drawer of a cash register, in which the money is kept.
  1. He checked the register. There was money in the till.
     他查看了一下收银机的抽屉，里面有钱。
• VERB 耕，犁(地)
  When peopletillland, they prepare the earth and work on it in order to grow crops.
  1. Workers were singing as they tilled the rice paddy fields.
     劳动者们一边耕犁稻田一边唱歌。
  2. ...freshly tilled fields.
     刚犁过的田地

英英释义

noun

• a strongbox for holding cash
  Synonym:cashboxmoney box
• a treasury for government funds
  Synonym:public treasurytrough
• unstratified soil deposited by a glacier
  Synonym:boulder clay

verb

• work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
  1. till the soil

双语例句

• They worked till midnight.
  他们工作到半夜。
• We could bang on the desks and shout till they let us out
  我们可以拍着桌子大喊大叫，直到他们放我们出去。
• They did not return home till 9 o'clock.
  他们九点钟才回家。
• He did not return till ten o'clock.
  顶10点他才回来。
• He did not finish the work till yesterday.
  到昨天为止，他才做完那工作。
• Thank you for bringing me the news. I've been living in the dark till now!
  谢谢你给我透了个信；我真是蒙在鼓里呀！
• I talked till my jaws ached, trying to bring him around.
  我劝了他半天，嘴皮都快磨破了。
• They expected me to sit up and shoot the breeze with them till one or two in the morning
  他们希望我晚上熬夜陪他们聊天到凌晨一两点。
• Stay till I'm through.
  等我做完再走。
• Wait till I get you home, young madam.
  等着我把你接回家来吧，大小姐。