till是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 直到， 直到…为止， 与until意思相同，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He may rail at Christmas till he dies, but he can't help thinking better of it I defy him if he finds me going there, in good temper, year after year, and saying Uncle Scrooge, how are you.
-- Stop till I shut the door of the shop.
-- you may look through that shirt till your eyes ache; but you won't find a hole in it, nor a thread-bare place.
-- The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the Turkey, and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab, and the chuckle with which he recom-pensed the boy, were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which he sat down breathless in his chair again, and chuckled till he cried.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'After that there gallop from Temple Bar, old lady, I won't trust your fore-legs till I get you on the level,' said this hoarse messenger, glancing at his mare.
-- 'I shall not go to bed till night; but I want a bedroom, and a barber.'
-- When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old.
-- Mr. Stryver laughed till he shook his precocious paunch.
-- In silence they go walking up and down together, walking up and down together, till her love and company have brought him to himself.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To reach up to the bell was what he did not like; to cry aloud for help would have availed him little; besides, how ashamed would he have been to be found caught in a trap, like an outwitted fox!How was he to twist himself through!He saw clearly that it was his irrevocable destiny to remain a prisoner till dawn, or, perhaps, even late in the morning; then the smith must be fetched to file away the bars; but all that would not be done so quickly as he could think about it.
-- Among the latter there may be far more poetical natures than many an ac-knowledged poet, when examined more closely, could boast of; the difference only is, that the poet possesses a better mental memory, on which account he is able to retain the 50 Andersen's Fairy Talesfeeling and the thought till they can be embodied by means of words; a faculty which the others do not possess.
-- He was in the middle of Switzerland, but packed up with eight other passengers in the inside of an eternally-creaking dil-igence; his head ached till it almost split, his weary neck could hardly bear the heavy load, and his feet, pinched by his torturing boots, were terribly swollen.
-- 'The earth is hard and covered with snow; men cannot plant me now, and therefore I have been put up here under shelter till the spring-time comes!How thoughtful that is!How kind man is, after all!If it only were not so dark here, and so ter-ribly lonely!Not even a hare!And out in the woods it was so pleasant, when the snow was on the ground, and the hare leaped by; yes even when he jumped over me; but I did not like it then!It is really terribly lonely here!'
-- Then the wicked sprite laughed till he almost choked, for all this tickled his fancy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And how well things were going up till now!how well we got on!She was contented and happy in her children; I never interfered with her in anything; I let her manage the children and the house just as she liked.
-- To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till nighttime; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life.
-- "I told them to come on Sunday, and till then not to trouble you or themselves for nothing," he said.
-- "Let us send for my brother," she said; "he can get a dinner anyway, or we shall have the children getting nothing to eat till six again, like yesterday."
-- Till two o'clock the sitting would go on without a break, and at two o'clock there would be an interval and luncheon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten.
-- Everything was regulated and foreseen that was to be done from half-past eleven a.m. till midnight, the hour at which the methodical gentleman retired.
-- The perusal of this paper absorbed Phileas Fogg until a quarter before four, whilst the Standard, his next task, occupied him till the dinner hour.
-- "I think we must wait till night before acting."
-- They waited till midnight; but no change took place among the guards, and it became apparent that their yielding to sleep could not be counted on.
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