| 词汇 | till |
| 释义 | tillWord family adjectivetillabletillynountillagetillertillingtilliteprepositiontill till1 /tɪl, tl/ ●●● S1 prepositionprep , conjunction spoken → til UNTILuntil 直到 I didn’t have a boyfriend till I was 17. 我直到17岁才有男朋友。 The shop’s open till nine o'clock on Fridays. 这家商店周五营业到9点。 Examples from the Corpus till• I have to work till eight tonight.• Kate didn't walk till she was 18 months old. Trade till2 /tɪl/ noun [countableC] → til1. British EnglishBrEBBT a machine used in shops, restaurants etc for calculating the amount you have to pay, and for storing the money 〔商店、餐馆等的〕现金出纳机 SYN American English cash register 2 in the till American EnglishAmE money in the till is money that a company or organization has 〔公司或组织的钱〕储备的 You keep as much money as you need in the till to run your operations. 你做业务要储备足够的钱。 Examples from the Corpus in the till• Just those in power want to keep their hands on the reins and in the tills.• Record numbers are being caught with fingers in the till - like ex-Mirror chief Robert Maxwell.• Dansey left Rome in 1936; word seeped out that he had been caught with his hand in the till and sacked.• But my feeling is that some one has had their hands in the till.• The campaign has more than $3.3 million in the till.• She counted over the money in the till and inspected a roll of invoices.• The landlord was looking at something in the till and thinking.• Indeed he often gave them whatever was in the till, feeling they looked in need of a square meal. 3 have your hands/fingers in the till to steal money from the place where you work 偷本单位的钱；监守自盗 be caught with your hands/fingers in the till (=to be caught stealing from your employer) 偷本单位的钱时当场被抓住 Examples from the Corpus till• He was always up to any adventure that didn't involve working at tills or sitting on three-legged stools.• Yes Cashpoints, tills and vending machines will all have to be changed or simply bought anew.• They introduced rigid quality control, centralised distribution and electronic tills.• The till girl mouths her request for identity.• The till jangled like a fire alarm, and Croughton the pot-bellied potman was already in a lather.• The tills are stacked like bunk beds, 9 to 10 feet high.• The raiders escaped with the takings from two tills. Crops till3 verb [transitiveT] TACto prepare land for growing crops 耕〔地〕，犁 〔地〕 SYN cultivate till the soil/land/fields etc 耕地 Examples from the Corpus till• The Democrats have also tilled the Gallo fortune.• The townspeople tilled the soil and produced most everything they ate.• Aid, given on condition that it is spent on genuine development, can till the soil for home-grown growth.• The cattle are not used for draught purposes, since the fields are tilled with the hoe. till the soil/land/fields etc• Then he went back to tilling the land.• I used to work for my Uncle Demba cultivating rice, tilling the soil and sowing rice seeds.• The subjugated population of Messenia tilled the land as serfs, helots.• Aid, given on condition that it is spent on genuine development, can till the soil for home-grown growth.• Their time is constantly spent in tilling the soil, manuring it with ashes, raking and hoeing it with wooden hoes.• And then, if you made it, off you went to till the fields or whatever.• On Andean haciendas, it matters little to the man who tills the land whether the product increases.• In agricultural societies, men tilled the land while women tended home and children. From Longman Business Dictionary tilltill /tɪl, tl/ noun [countableC]COMMERCE a machine used in shops, restaurants etc for calculating the amount you have to pay, and for storing the moneySYN CASH REGISTER Two armed men ordered the assistant to open the till. There were queues at the till. (1400-1500) Anglo-French tylle till3 Old English tilian |
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