| 单词 | till |
| 释义 | till (once / 21 pages) 1vn 2n The noun till means the same as "cash register." When you work at the store long enough, they'll let you operate the till. When you pay taxes to your town, they go into the local till, or government fund, for community improvements. Till is also used as a verb, meaning to work the land, to get it ready for planting and harvesting. Till can also be used to mean "until," which makes things a bit confusing. So, technically, you could have a sentence like: Don't touch the till till you take the customer's money. WORD FAMILYtill: tillable, tillage, tilled, tiller, tilling, tills+/tillage: tillages/tilled: untilled/tiller: tillered, tillering, tillers/tilling: tillings USAGE EXAMPLESFrustrated vets summarize the VA’s position this way: “Delay, deny, wait till I die.” Salon(Dec 31, 2016) Maybe he's just pathologically naïve - like I was till very recently. New York Times(Mar 27, 2013) Later, the party shifts to the malecón, the harbour wall, and continues till dawn. The Guardian(Dec 24, 2016) 1 1v work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation till the soil Hypo|Hyper plough, plow, turn to break and turn over earth especially with a plow hoedig with a hoe ridgeplough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip disk, harrowdraw a harrow over (land) process, work, work on shape, form, or improve a material 2n unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together 2Syn|Hyper boulder clay dirt, soil the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock 1n a strongbox for holding cash Syn|Hypo|Hyper cashbox, money box cash register, register a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill deedbox, strongbox a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked 2n a treasury for government funds Syn|Hyper public treasury, trough exchequer, treasury the funds of a government or institution or individual |
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