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 spring force for tills type of seal exerts a tremendous influence on the sealing function.
  这种密封型式，弹簧力的大小对密封性能影响很大。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。