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

• 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。
• They would also be able to use credit cards and get cash from shop tills, which operate on different networks.
  他们也可以刷信用卡、从商店收银台得到现金，这类交易使用不同的网络。
• 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。
• The spring force for tills type of seal exerts a tremendous influence on the sealing function.
  这种密封型式，弹簧力的大小对密封性能影响很大。
• A person who tills the soil for a living.
  耕种土地来维持生活的人。
• Bingo these showed that two of the tills ringing up sales were not owned by the company.
  果然，检查结果显示，该店记录销售额的收银机中有两台并非该公司所有。
• 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。
• A conclusion was drawn on the basis of results and the law of geomorphology and stratigraphy: The first set and the second set glacial tills were deposited during the Little Ice age and Neoglaciation in the "U" shape valley 3800m a. s.
  根据测试的结果并结合地貌地层学得出：3800m以上U型谷中的第一、第二套冰碛为全新世中小冰期、新冰期沉积的冰碛；
• It also puts for-ward the ways to solve tills kind of problems effectively.
  提出如何有效的解决这类问题。
• 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。