单词 | till |
释义 | till (tɪl ) Word forms: tills , tilling, tilled 1. preposition B1 In spoken English and informal written English, till is often used instead of until. They had to wait till Monday to ring the bank manager. I've survived till now, and will go on doing so without help from you. Till is also a conjunction. I hadn't left home till I was nineteen. They slept till the alarm bleeper woke them at four. 2. countable noun A2 In a shop or other place of business, a till is a counter or cash register where money is kept, and where customers pay for what they have bought. [British] ...long queues at tills that make customers angry. 3. countable noun A2 A till is the drawer of a cash register, in which the money is kept. [US] He checked the register. There was money in the till. Synonyms: cash register, cash box, cash drawer 4. verb When people till land, they prepare the earth and work on it in order to grow crops. [literary] Workers were singing as they tilled the rice paddy fields. [VERB noun] ...freshly tilled fields. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: cultivate, dig, plough, work Idioms: have your hand in the till [mainly British] to be caught stealing or doing something wrong. The usual American expression is be caught with your hand in the cookie jar. He had his hand in the till, and was sacked from his job at the supermarket. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: till the field He loved his people, encouraging them to till the field and grow mulberries, and decreasing their labor and tax burdens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her grandfather, she explains, tilled his field with a horse as late as the 1990s. The Times Literary Supplement Between helping to till the fields and looking after three younger siblings she watched martial arts movies and loved to act out the moves. Times, Sunday Times Some farmers are too weak to till their fields. Times, Sunday Times I haven't had to till the fields or illuminate manuscripts to feel this way. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 直到, 钱柜, 直到, 直到 Japanese: ・・・する時まで, レジ, ・・・まで, ・・・まで |
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