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。
• 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；
• One important drawback of the cash changeover is the cost, especially to business-changing bank accounts, shop tills and all the vending machines and parking meters.
  货币转换过程中的一个重要缺点是成本，特别是商业上的成本一一转换银行帐户、商店的收银机以及所有的自动贩卖机和停车场的即时收费器等。
• 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。
• Last year, Chinese visitors contributed 14 per cent of the £ 1bn that rang through Harrods 'tills, nearly double the level the year before.
  去年，中国游客为哈罗斯的10亿英镑销售额贡献了14%，比上年水平几乎翻了一倍。
• In tills paper, the orthogonal q coherent state is constructed, its quantum statistic properties such as squeezing property, antibunching effect are studied, the effects of variable q on quantum statistic properties are studied by making use of numerical calculation.
  要本文构造了正交q一相干态，研究了它的压缩性质、反聚束效应等量子统计性质，并数值计算了变形参数q的影响。
• There were only two tills open, while six others stood unattended.
  只有两个收银处开着，其他六个都空着没人值班。
• The effects of grain size and orientation on thermal conductivity of diamond film are studied in tills paper.
  研究了金刚石膜内晶粒尺寸和取向程度对金刚石膜然导率的影响。
• Countries are divided into three groups, or tiers [ tills], based on how well they meet the requirements of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
  被调查的国家根据它们所做的是否符合《人口贩卖受害者保护法案》一共分为三个组，或三个梯队。
• 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。