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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I only trust the hopes we are leading you to entertain may be realized, but till my husband returns, you will remain at the Castle."
-- It was impossible to refuse an invitation given with such heart, and Miss Grant and her brother consented to stay till Lord Glenarvan returned.
-- The stranger tried to pull out his watch to see the time; but it was not till he had rummaged through the ninth pocket that he found it.
-- She passed Sal, a complete tomb of sand lying barren and desolate, and went on among the vast coral reefs and athwart the Isle of St. Jacques, with its long chain of basaltic mountains, till she entered the port of Villa Praya and anchored in eight fathoms of water before the town.
-- At Cape Momax the straits widened, and she was able to get round Narborough Isles and advance in a more southerly direction, till at length the rock of Cape Pilares, the extreme point of Desolation Island, came in sight, thirty-six hours after entering the straits.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This is only a foretaste,' says he; 'wait a bit till night comes, and I'll come back and talk to you again.'
-- If she cannot receive you now, you must be content to wait till another time.
-- She used to sit on a stone near, and wait there almost motionless all day, till the herd went home.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.
-- There are moments when the extent of it seems doubtful; and till his sentiments are fully known, you cannot wonder at my wishing to avoid any encouragement of my own partiality, by believing or calling it more than it is.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Good-bye, till I see you Monday."
-- "Remember, I'll be looking till you find your sister."
-- "Mayhew won't open the safe till nine," he thought.
-- "There ain't going to be no order till it comes."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He leaned his back up against a tree, and stretched his legs out till one of them most touched one of mine.
-- It itched till the tears come into my eyes.
-- And next time Jim told it he said they rode him down to New Orleans; and, after that, every time he told it he spread it more and more, till by and by he said they rode him all over the world, and tired him most to death, and his back was all over saddle-boils.
-- It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichev-er boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it, and he mustn't eat and he mustn't sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts, which was the sign of the band.
-- Some authorities think different, but mostly it's considered best to kill them except some that you bring to the cave here, and keep them till they're ransomed.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It stretched and stretched and stretched till it became so long, it seemed endless.
-- "That of eating, drinking, sleeping, playing, and wandering around from morning till night."
-- With these words he spread out his wings and, darting to the open window, he flew away into space till he was out of sight.
-- The theater was full of people, enjoying the spectacle and laughing till they cried at the antics of the two Marionettes.
-- At the news that pardon had been given, the Marionettes ran to the stage and, turning on all the lights, they danced and sang till dawn.
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