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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she came to know writers it was like adventuring upon a stage which till then she had known only from the other side of the footlights.
-- It reminds you of a placid rivulet, meandering smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vasty sea; but the sea is so calm, so silent, so indifferent, that you are troubled suddenly by a vague uneasiness.
-- She asked me what I had been doing with myself during the summer, and with this help I managed to make some conversation till tea was brought in.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And hundreds of times Captain Harding had almost been among those who were not counted by the terrible Grant; but in these combats where he never spared himself, fortune favored him till the moment when he was wounded and taken prisoner on the field of battle near Richmond.
-- They could not leave it either, as the sea surrounded them; they must therefore put off till the next day their search for the engineer, from whom, alas!not a single cry had reached them to show that he was still in existence.
-- On the left, above the promontory, this irregular and jagged cliff descended by a long slope of conglomerated rocks till it mingled with the ground of the southern point.
-- "We shall be all right if we wait till it ebbs," replied the sailor, "and then we will trust it to carry our fuel to the Chimneys.
-- The explanation of this fact could only be produced from the engineer's own lips, and they must wait for that till speech returned.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clapping her hands with pleasure and running on before me for a short distance, my little acquaintance stopped at a door and remaining on the step till I came up knocked at it when I joined her.
-- 'Justice or no justice,' said the young fellow, 'here I am and here I shall stop till such time as I think fit to go, unless you send for assistance to put me out which you won't do, I know.
-- I said I would stop till I had gained it.
-- But that reminds me I have left her all alone, and she will be anxious and know not a moment's peace till I return.
-- Here he by no means diminished the impression he had just produced, for he ate hard eggs, shell and all, devoured gigantic prawns with the heads and tails on, chewed tobacco and water-cresses at the same time and with extraordinary greediness, drank boiling tea without winking, bit his fork and spoon till they bent again, and in short performed so many horrifying and uncommon acts that the women were nearly frightened out of their wits, and began to doubt if he were really a human creature.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- till seven times?"
-- After a night's orgies there would come a deep slumber till three or four o'clock in the afternoon; then the weary rising from a dirty couch; seltzer-water to remove the effect of excessive drinking, coffee.
-- But wait till you are hungry and sleepy, you will sing another tune," Peter Gerasimovitch said, laughing still louder.
-- A send-off had been given to a departing friend, and he drank and played till two in the morning, so that he was entirely unfamiliar with this case, and now hastened to glance over the indictment.
-- His life on the estate of his aunts was ordered in the following way: He rose very early, some times at three o'clock, and till sunrise bathed in the river under a hill, often in the morning mist, and returned when the dew was yet on the grass and flowers.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had half a mind to follow, till I remembered how he detested any fuss about himself.
-- I was in my laboratory at four o'clock, and since then 芒聙娄 I've lived eight days 芒聙娄 such days as no human being ever lived before!I'm nearly worn out, but I shan't sleep till I've told this thing over to you.
-- Then I got a big pebble from the river, and came and hammered till I had flattened a coil in the decorations, and the verdigris came off in powdery flakes.
-- Evidently, I thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle.
-- And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."
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