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

• 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。
• The buried soils in high-cold region of Tibet Plateau, which are characterized by compact structure, gaily colour, intensive weathering and iron-stained matrix as micromorphological feature, are mostly reserved in tills.
  青藏高原高寒区的埋藏土多保存在冰碛物中，具有结构紧密，颜色较为鲜艳，风化程度较深，其微形态呈不同形式铁染基质的特征；
• It was formed with underling glacial tills as the main sand source, with the planet westerly circulation and west winds caused by the plateau s winter monsoon as the main driving forces, and with persistent cold and semiarid weather as the climatic background.
  形成条件为以下伏冰碛物为主要砂源，以行星西风环流和高原冬季风引起的地面西风为主要动力，以持续的寒冷半干旱为气候背景；
• Jon Finland, the idea of phones communicating with computerized tills so that you press a button and pay for your supermarket goods or drink from a vending machine is being tested.
  在芬兰，人们在测试这样一个创意，即将电话同智能收款机连接，使人们能够直接通过按钮向超市付款或者从自动售货机购买饮料。
• 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。
• 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。
• In allusion to unbounded prestressed structure, tills paper detailed expounds its quality control according to the quality supervision which is performed before and during the construction, and the subentry checking and accepting performed after project.
  本文针对无粘结预应力结构，从施工前、施工过程的质量监督及施工后的分项验收对其质量控制做了详尽阐述。
• They came, they saw – and while they have yet to conquer, foreign banks 'cash tills in China are ringing.
  它们来了，它们看到了&而且，虽然它们还未征服整个市场，但外资银行在中国的钱柜正叮当作响。
• 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。
• They would also be able to use credit cards and get cash from shop tills, which operate on different networks.
  他们也可以刷信用卡、从商店收银台得到现金，这类交易使用不同的网络。