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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser, the Governor Higginson had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour.
-- I looked and looked till I was nearly blind, whilst Conseil kept repeating in a calm voice:"If, sir, you would not squint so much, you would see better!"
-- We were on the qui vive till daylight, and prepared for the combat.
-- The chase began again, and the captain, leaning towards me, said:"I will pursue that beast till my frigate bursts up."
-- This towing business did not last more than ten minutes each; and relieving each other thus, we could swim on for some hours, perhaps till day-break.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For you'll be the same till it is cracked, like an insect in its skin.
-- It was not till he was quite close that he perceived the girl.
-- "Don't you laugh so pleasantly till you're out of the wood," said Birkin.
-- COAL-DUSTGoing home from school in the afternoon, the Brangwen girls descended the hill between the picturesque cottages of Willey Green till they came to the railway crossing.
-- The repeated sharp blows of unknown, terrifying noise struck through her till she was rocking with terror.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I confess it with shame shrunk icily into myself, like a snail; at every glance retired colder and farther; till finally the poor innocent was led to doubt her own senses, and, overwhelmed with confusion at her supposed mistake, persuaded her mamma to decamp.
-- Being unable to remove the chain, I jumped over, and, running up the flagged causeway bordered with straggling gooseberry bushes, knocked vainly for admittance, till my knuckles tingled and the dogs howled.
-- There's nobbut t' missis; and shoo'll not oppen 't an ye mak' yer flaysome dins till neeght.
-- Perhaps I can get a guide among your lads, and he might stay at the Grange till morning could you spare me one?
-- Then I hope his ghost will haunt you; and I hope Mr. Heathcliff will never get another tenant till the Grange is a ruin,' she answered, sharply.
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：
-- Alice watched the White King as he slowly struggled up from bar to bar, till at last she said, 'Why, you'll be hours and hours getting to the table, at that rate.
-- She said afterwards that she had never seen in all her life such a face as the King made, when he found himself held in the air by an invisible hand, and being dusted: he was far too much astonished to cry out, but his eyes and his mouth went on getting larger and larger, and rounder and rounder, till her hand shook so with laughing that she nearly let him drop upon the floor.
-- So, resolutely turning her back upon the house, she set out once more down the path, determined to keep straight on till she got to the hill.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor would he allow anyone to leave the inn till he had drunk himself sleepy and reeled off to bed.
-- I could not doubt that this was the black spot; and taking it up, I found written on the other side, in a very good, clear hand, this short message: "You have till ten tonight."
-- "He had till ten, Mother," said I; and just as I said it, our old clock began striking.
-- Squalling was the word for it; Pew's anger rose so high at these objections till at last, his passion completely taking the upper hand, he struck at them right and left in his blindness and his stick sounded heavily on more than one.
-- 6 The Captain's PapersE rode hard all the way till we drew up before Dr. Livesey's door.
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