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

• There were only two tills open, while six others stood unattended.
  只有两个收银处开着，其他六个都空着没人值班。
• The outflow lake stage, which is characterized by tills, occurred in the late glacial interval of the Last Glacial Maximum, when the watershed of the main ridge zone of the Himalayas shifted northward to the location of present Tangla Mountain.
  外流湖期发育于末次冰期晚冰阶，以冰碛为主要特征，此时喜马拉雅山主脊带分水岭北移至现今荡拉山的位置；
• The glacial tills formed in MIS 3b were reserved in the three areas.
  这3个地区沉积有该次冰进的冰碛物。
• 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。
• Retailers have to pay for tills and card readers and banks have to put in software to process payments.
  零售商不得不花钱购置收银机和读卡器，银行不得不安装软件来处理支付事宜。
• Tax-controlled tills is a kind of legal seriousness and not destructive with tax register function.
  税控收款机是一种具有法律严肃性和不可破坏性的带有计税功能的收款机。
• 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。
• It was formed with underling glacial tills as the main sand source, with the planet westerly circulation and west winds caused by the plateau s winter monsoon as the main driving forces, and with persistent cold and semiarid weather as the climatic background.
  形成条件为以下伏冰碛物为主要砂源，以行星西风环流和高原冬季风引起的地面西风为主要动力，以持续的寒冷半干旱为气候背景；
• 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 buried soils in high-cold region of Tibet Plateau, which are characterized by compact structure, gaily colour, intensive weathering and iron-stained matrix as micromorphological feature, are mostly reserved in tills.
  青藏高原高寒区的埋藏土多保存在冰碛物中，具有结构紧密，颜色较为鲜艳，风化程度较深，其微形态呈不同形式铁染基质的特征；