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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Winnemac is Midwestern in its fields of corn and wheat, its red barns and silos, and, despite the immense antiquity of Zenith, many counties were not settled till 1860.
-- He waited till another student, a stuttering gawk of a student, had finished talking to Gottlieb, dark, lean, impassive at his desk in a cubbyhole of an office, then he plunged.
-- It was not till Angus Duer accepted election to Digamma Pi that Martin himself came in.
-- The night before his special examination they kept him at it till two, with wet towels, black coffee, prayer, and profanity.
-- Gottlieb talked till Clif had faded from existence and Angus Duer seemed but an absurd climber.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Till that moment he had never been into a tavern, but now he felt giddy and was tormented by a burning thirst.
-- We have three little children and Katerina Ivanovna is at work from morning till night; she is scrubbing and cleaning and washing the children, for she's been used to cleanliness from a child.
-- The first morning I came back from the office I found Katerina Ivanovna had cooked two courses for dinner soup and salt meat with horse radish which we had never dreamed of till then.
-- She was giv-en to laughter and when anything amused her, she laughed inaudibly, quivering and shaking all over till she felt ill. 'And have you made much money by your thinking?'
-- But having given him the right to receive the pension, I had to wait till the debt was paid off and that is only just done, so that I've been unable to send you any-thing all this time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The guard's eye lighted on me as he was getting down, and he saidat the booking-office door'Is there anybody here for a yoongsterbooked in the name of Murdstone, from Bloonderstone, Sooffolk,to be left till called for?'
-- 'Is there anybody here for a yoongster, booked in the name ofMurdstone, from Bloonderstone, Sooffolk, but owning to the nameof Copperfield, to be left till called for?'
-- Should I sleep at night in one of thosewooden bins, with the other luggage, and wash myself at the 74pump in the yard in the morning; or should I be turned out everynight, and expected to come again to be left till called for, when theoffice opened next day?
-- I'll stay with you till I am a cross cranky old woman.
-- 'Oh!I thought you were going to leave me out altogether,' said Mr.Omer, laughing till he coughed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a melancholy change; and Emma could not but sigh over it, and wish for impos-sible things, till her father awoke, and made it necessary to be cheerful.
-- Nobody thought of Hannah till you mentioned her James is so obliged to you!'
-- It was now some time since Miss Taylor had begun to in-fluence his schemes; but as it was not the tyrannic influence of youth on youth, it had not shaken his determination of never settling till he could purchase Randalls, and the sale of Randalls was long looked forward to; but he had gone steadily on, with these objects in view, till they were accom-plished.
-- With such an opinion, in confirmation of his own, Mr. Woodhouse hoped to influence every visitor of the new-ly married pair; but still the cake was eaten; and there was no rest for his benevolent nerves till it was all gone.
-- Emma shall be an angel, and I will keep my spleen to myself till Christmas brings John and Isabella.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Description of Farmer Oak An IncidentWhen Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.
-- The stopping peculiarity of his watch Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he escaped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of the sun and stars, and by pressing his face close to the glass of his neighbours' windows, till he could discern the hour marked by the green-faced timekeepers within.
-- A group or two of the latest in date amongst the dead multitude had remained till this very mid-winter time on the twigs which bore them and in falling rattled against the trunks with smart taps.
-- The North Star was directly in the wind's eye, and since evening the Bear had swung round it outwardly to the east, till he was now at a right angle with the meridian.
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