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。
• In tills paper, a description of the features of the Carlin-type gold deposits in Guizhou is given and a discussion of their discovery values is made on the basis of the data collected from the prospecting history record.
  本文就该类型金矿及其重要产区的发现予以查证记述的基础上，对其金矿发现的特点做了归纳，进而对发现的价值意义进行了概略论叙。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A conclusion was drawn on the basis of results and the law of geomorphology and stratigraphy: The first set and the second set glacial tills were deposited during the Little Ice age and Neoglaciation in the "U" shape valley 3800m a. s.
  根据测试的结果并结合地貌地层学得出：3800m以上U型谷中的第一、第二套冰碛为全新世中小冰期、新冰期沉积的冰碛；
• 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。
• Tax-controlled tills is a kind of legal seriousness and not destructive with tax register function.
  税控收款机是一种具有法律严肃性和不可破坏性的带有计税功能的收款机。
• 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 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。