tills

英 [tɪlz]

美 [tɪlz]

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
till的第三人称单数和复数

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

双语例句

• The glacial tills formed in MIS 3b were reserved in the three areas.
  这3个地区沉积有该次冰进的冰碛物。
• A person who tills the soil for a living.
  耕种土地来维持生活的人。
• Bingo these showed that two of the tills ringing up sales were not owned by the company.
  果然，检查结果显示，该店记录销售额的收银机中有两台并非该公司所有。
• The outflow lake stage, which is characterized by tills, occurred in the late glacial interval of the Last Glacial Maximum, when the watershed of the main ridge zone of the Himalayas shifted northward to the location of present Tangla Mountain.
  外流湖期发育于末次冰期晚冰阶，以冰碛为主要特征，此时喜马拉雅山主脊带分水岭北移至现今荡拉山的位置；
• She has since been jailed for six months for stealing from the tills.
  后来她因从现金出纳机里偷钱而被判了6个月的监禁。
• Tile concrete performance of tills kind of tension is that the "objective reality" is riot just included by tile matter.
  这种张力的具体表现就是，“客观实在”对物质之非专属性。
• The soil desiccation has become seriously potential danger of the construction of artificial vegetation in tills region.
  土壤干化已成为这一地区人工植被建设的严重隐患。
• In the case of banks the term of cash covers currency in tills or vaults plus balances held with the central bank.
  对银行来说，现金这个名词是指在柜台上或保险柜里的通货加上在中央银行的存款金额。
• In normal times they vaguely know that banks do not have in their tills currency notes to meet a mass demand for cash from their depositors, but this is mainly an item for general knowledge quizzes.
  正常情况下，人们只是模模糊糊地知道，银行柜台里的现钞无法满足储户的大量现金需求，不过这一般只是知识竞赛里的一道题目而已。
• As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of, so much is his property.
  一个人能耕耘，种植，改良和培育多少土地以及使用多少土地的产出，他就拥有多少财产权。