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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself: and as for the inhabitants, I had reason to be-lieve I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I saw.
-- The emperor was already descended from the tower, and advancing on horse-back towards me, which had like to have cost him dear; for the beast, though very well trained, yet wholly unused to such a sight, which appeared as if a mountain moved before him, reared up on its hinder feet: but that prince, who is an excellent horseman, kept his seat, till his attendants ran in, and held the bridle, while his majesty had time to dismount.
-- He ordered his cooks and butlers, who were already prepared, to give me victuals and drink, which they pushed forward in a sort of vehicles upon wheels, till I could reach them.
-- We directed him to draw out whatever was at the end of that chain; which appeared to be a globe, half silver, and half of some transparent metal; for, on the transparent side, we saw certain strange figures circularly drawn, and thought we could touch them, till we found our fingers stopped by the lucid substance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Not till she run away from me.
-- 'It's only crossing the bar, sir, and up the stairs, if you wouldn't mind, and waiting there for a moment till I get a candle.
-- 'Don't give it mouth in this building, till you're called upon.
-- 'Oh, no!Pray let me keep it for father till he comes back!He will want it when he comes back.
-- He will not be happy for a single minute, till he comes back.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of course I understand--we must wait till the tide serves."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The amazing, the profound, the unbelievable thrill there was in passionately talking to some really clever young man by the hour, resuming day after day for months...this they had never realized till it happened!
-- Till things developed over there, and Lloyd George came to save the situation over here.
-- Wragby was a long low old house in brown stone, be-gun about the middle of the eighteenth century, and added on to, till it was a warren of a place without much distinc-tion.
-- It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness.
-- Till the reaction, when he found he had been made ridiculous.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody comes here to ask if a man's at home, and to say he'll stand on the door mat till he is.
-- 'You won't go home till morning.
-- 'Why, you'll you'll ask till they tell you.
-- You'll find out when the business passes through each of these stages by asking at both Departments till they tell you.'
-- 'I won't leave you till you shall be well taken care of.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How would you like to be shut up for hours with a nervous, fussy old lady, who keeps you trotting, is never satisfied, and worries you till you you're ready to fly out the window or cry?'
-- 'I'm not!And if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty,' cried Jo, pulling off her net, and shaking down a chestnut mane.
-- And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.
-- Beth ate no more, but crept away to sit in her shadowy corner and brood over the delight to come, till the others were ready.
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