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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- till they were lost in the distance.
-- 'Don't come with me,' she cried, 'Au revoir, till the eve-ning do you hear?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A plain man cannot stand against the anger of a king, who if he swallow his displeasure now, will yet nurse revenge till he has wreaked it.
-- He will not deliver the Danaans from this pestilence till Agamem-non has restored the girl without fee or ransom to her father, and has sent a holy hecatomb to Chryse.
-- He charged them straightly further and dismissed them, whereon they went their way sorrowfully by the seaside, till they came to the tents and ships of the Myrmidons.
-- When the thigh-bones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon the spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off: then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied.
-- Honour him then yourself, Olympian lord of counsel, and grant victory to the Trojans, till the Achaeans give my son his due and load him with riches in requital.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But not till the clock-mending is over."
-- "Wait till the summer," said Mrs. Hall sagely, "when the artisks are beginning to come.
-- "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently."
-- It was late at night in the daytime one was bothered with the gaping, silly students and I worked then sometimes till dawn.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mowgli's Brothers Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we.
-- Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little, and then on the night of the Pack Meeting took them and Mow-gli and Mother Wolf to the Council Rock a hilltop covered with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide.
-- He was thinking of the time that comes to every leader of every pack when his strength goes from him and he gets feebler and feebler, till at last he is killed by the wolves and a new leader comes up to be killed in his turn.
-- And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat's claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.
-- They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera the Panther and no man's play-thing, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There we fought the Alligewi, till the ground was red with their blood.
-- 'There is but one deer, and he is dead,' said the Indian, bending his body till his ear nearly touched the earth.
-- Chapter 4 'Well go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury.
-- But, happily, we have fallen in with a hunter, he whom you hear talking to the singer, that is acquainted with the deerpaths and by-ways of the woods, and who promises to lead us to a place where we may rest securely till the morn-ing.'
-- Glancing his eyes around, with a vain effort to pierce the gloom that was thickening beneath the leafy arches of the forest, he felt as if, cut off from human aid, his unresisting companions would soon lie at the entire mercy of those barbarous enemies, who, like beasts of prey, only waited till the gathering darkness might render their blows more fatally certain.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes his crew would be heard dashing along past the farmhouses at midnight, with whoop and halloo, like a troop of Don Cossacks; and the old dames, startled out of their sleep, would listen for a moment till the hurry-scurry had clat-tered by, and then exclaim, 'Ay, there goes Brom Bones and his gang!'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not till four years after Strickland's death that Maurice Huret wrote that article in the Mercure de France which rescued the unknown painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less docility, have followed.
-- I felt they expected me to say clever things, and I never could think of any till after the party was over.
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