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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Previously he had been a bailiff for a short time, and earlier still a shepherd only, having from his childhood assisted his father in tending the flocks of large proprietors, till old Gabriel sank to rest.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances, she was wont to reason thus: "If Father Goriot had daughters of his own as rich as those ladies who came here seemed to be, he would not be lodging in my house, on the third floor, at forty-five francs a month; and he would not go about dressed like a poor man."
-- When a young man makes up his mind that he will work all night, the chances are that seven times out of ten he will sleep till morning.
-- Father Goriot started off somewhere with a parcel, and the student won't be back from his lecture till ten o'clock.
-- "But only think of meeting one of the prettiest women in Paris in the Rue des Gres at nine o'clock!She could not have reached home after the ball till two o'clock this morning.
-- Eugene was so deeply interested that he forgot that he was not alone till he suddenly heard the Countess' voice.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.
-- And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and flounder-ing desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reason-36 Frankensteining, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pa talks war morning, noon and night, and all the gentlemen who come tosee him shout about Fort Sumter and States' Rights and Abe Lincoln till I get so bored I could scream!And that's allthe boys talk about, too, that and their old Troop.
-- I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded or it would haveruined the Christmas parties, too.
-- "Miss Pitty told us they hadn't intended announcing it till next year, because Miss Melly hasn't been very well;but with all the war talk going around, everybody in both families thought it would be better to get married soon.
-- He has to talk around in circles till Ma gets so confused that she givesup and tells him to save his voice for his law practice.
-- Why, I'll bet youMa is still so excited about the new horse that she'll never even realize we're home again till She sits down to suppertonight and sees Boyd.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In time I were able to keep him, and I kep him till he went off in a purple leptic fit.
-- "Not that anybody means to try," she added, "for that's all done with, and the place will stand as idle as it is till it falls.
-- "You have been crying till you are half blind, and you are near crying again now."
-- There was some company in the room, and Estella said to me as she joined it, "You are to go and stand there boy, till you are wanted."
-- I cried about it from breakfast till dinner.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the gold-en bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shab-by cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.'
-- Then the fox stretched out his tail again, and the young man sat himself down, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
-- You must go straight on till you come to the castle where the horse stands in his stall: by his side will lie the groom fast asleep and snoring: take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put the old leathern saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.'
-- Then the son sat down on the fox's tail, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
-- Then the fox stretched out his tail, and so away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled again.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being al-ready spent with labour while we were in the ship.
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