释义 |
ˈup-to-then, advb. phr. [up adv.1] Before a given point in time; until then.
1959P. Bull I know Face ix. 152, I did get my revenge by calling him Audrey instead of Aubrey, in the up-to-then famous dinner-table scene. 1976Brit. Jnrl. Sociol. XXVII. 345 [National liberation struggles] in fact shook the up-to-then facile dominance of the developmentalists in the academy. |