tills

英 [tɪlz]

美 [tɪlz]

n.  (大商店中的)交款处，收银台; (现金出纳机的)放钱的抽屉
v.  耕作; 犁地
till的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• PREP (常于口语与非正式书面语中代替 until)
  In spoken English and informal written English,tillis often used instead ofuntil.
  1. They had to wait till Monday to ring the bank manager...
     他们必须等到周一才能给银行经理打电话。
  2. I've survived till now, and will go on doing so without help from you.
     我一直努力活到了现在，而且没有你的帮助也能继续活下去。
  3. Tillis also a conjunction.
     
  4. I hadn't left home till I was nineteen...
     直到 19 岁我才离开家。
  5. They slept till the alarm bleeper woke them at four.
     他们一直睡到4点钟被寻呼机闹钟叫醒。

Note that you only usetilloruntilwhen you are talking about time. You do not use these words to talk about place or position. Instead, you should useas far asorup to.Then you'll be riding with us as far as the village?... We walked up to where his bicycle was.
注意只有在谈及时间时才用 till 或 until。在谈及地点或位置时不用这两个词，而应用as far as或up to：Then you'll be riding with us as far as the village (然后你会坐我们的车一直坐到那个村庄)，We walked up to where his bicycle was (我们一直走到他放自行车的地方)。

• N-COUNT (商店等处的)现金出纳机，收银机
  In a shop or other place of business, atillis a counter or cash register where money is kept, and where customers pay for what they have bought.
  1. ...long queues at tills that make customers angry.
     收银台前令顾客恼火的长队

in AM, use 美国英语用 cash register


• N-COUNT (收银机中的)钱柜，放钱的抽屉
  Atillis the drawer of a cash register, in which the money is kept.
  1. He checked the register. There was money in the till.
     他查看了一下收银机的抽屉，里面有钱。
• VERB 耕，犁(地)
  When peopletillland, they prepare the earth and work on it in order to grow crops.
  1. Workers were singing as they tilled the rice paddy fields.
     劳动者们一边耕犁稻田一边唱歌。
  2. ...freshly tilled fields.
     刚犁过的田地

双语例句

• In normal times they vaguely know that banks do not have in their tills currency notes to meet a mass demand for cash from their depositors, but this is mainly an item for general knowledge quizzes.
  正常情况下，人们只是模模糊糊地知道，银行柜台里的现钞无法满足储户的大量现金需求，不过这一般只是知识竞赛里的一道题目而已。
• Jon Finland, the idea of phones communicating with computerized tills so that you press a button and pay for your supermarket goods or drink from a vending machine is being tested.
  在芬兰，人们在测试这样一个创意，即将电话同智能收款机连接，使人们能够直接通过按钮向超市付款或者从自动售货机购买饮料。
• In tills paper, a description of the features of the Carlin-type gold deposits in Guizhou is given and a discussion of their discovery values is made on the basis of the data collected from the prospecting history record.
  本文就该类型金矿及其重要产区的发现予以查证记述的基础上，对其金矿发现的特点做了归纳，进而对发现的价值意义进行了概略论叙。
• She has since been jailed for six months for stealing from the tills.
  后来她因从现金出纳机里偷钱而被判了6个月的监禁。
• In the case of banks the term of cash covers currency in tills or vaults plus balances held with the central bank.
  对银行来说，现金这个名词是指在柜台上或保险柜里的通货加上在中央银行的存款金额。
• In allusion to unbounded prestressed structure, tills paper detailed expounds its quality control according to the quality supervision which is performed before and during the construction, and the subentry checking and accepting performed after project.
  本文针对无粘结预应力结构，从施工前、施工过程的质量监督及施工后的分项验收对其质量控制做了详尽阐述。
• The soil desiccation has become seriously potential danger of the construction of artificial vegetation in tills region.
  土壤干化已成为这一地区人工植被建设的严重隐患。
• The effects of grain size and orientation on thermal conductivity of diamond film are studied in tills paper.
  研究了金刚石膜内晶粒尺寸和取向程度对金刚石膜然导率的影响。
• A person who tills the soil for a living.
  耕种土地来维持生活的人。
• He adds that it is sold into supermarkets and that he is negotiating for it to sit near the tills at a leading bookstore in the lead-up to Christmas.
  他补充道，这本书已在超市上架，他正在与一家主要书店洽谈，想让书店在圣诞节前把这本书放在收银台旁的书架上销售。