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 until [әn'til]   添加此单词到默认生词本
prep. 直到, 在...以前

conj. 直到...时, 在...以前





    Until \Un*til"\, conj.
    As far as; to the place or degree that; especially, up to the
    time that; till. See {Till}, conj.

    In open prospect nothing bounds our eye,
    Until the earth seems joined unto the sky. --Dryden.

    But the rest of the dead lives not again until the
    thousand years were finished. --Rev. xx. 5.


    Until \Un*til"\, prep. [OE. until, ontil; un- (as in unto) + til
    till; cf. Dan. indtil, Sw. intill. See {Unto}, and {Till},
    prep.]
    1. To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. --Chaucer.

    Taverners until them told the same. --Piers
    Plowman.

    He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them
    until. --Spenser.

    2. To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid
    until evening; he will not come back until the end of the
    month.

    He and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan
    until the day of the captivity. --Judg. xviii.
    30.

    Note: In contracts and like documents until is construed as
    exclusive of the date mentioned unless it was the
    manifest intent of the parties to include it.

    1. Can we never see eye-to-eye until all 120 million Japanese become Christians?" My second encounter occurred in the late 1980s, when I overheard a comment as I passed by a meeting room in the New York head office of a major financial organization.
    2. The plane will remain at Norwood until Pan Am and the FAA have a chance to go over it, he said.
    3. Nor has the flow of rights issues upset share prices to date. However, most strategists agree that share prices will remain vulnerable until there is further indication that the UK economy is securely on the recovery trail.
    4. Mr. Bush said yesterday he will talk about health care next Tuesday, but details aren't expected until a Feb. 6 speech, officials said.
    5. While there appeared to be no damage to electrical or electronic systems, "we won't know for sure until we power up the vehicle," Utsman said.
    6. Although the truce effectively collapsed one week later, with both sides swapping accusations of military attacks, government and rebel representatives continued to hold sporadic peace talks in Zaire until last week.
    7. GE spokesman George Jamison said Thursday the Connecticut-based company's offer of $54 per share would be extended until 5 p.m. Monday.
    8. There was no mention of that raid in the Iraqi communique, which declared that Iraq would inflict "further painful blows on the Iranian regime" until it complies with the U.N. Security Council cease-fire resolution passed last July 20.
    9. But, although he admitted resorting to cannibalism to stay alive after the group became stranded in the snow, Packer maintained until his death that he had killed only one.
    10. "I know a doctor who likes to be able to hop in a plane and fly whenever he wants," says Gerald Walton, an FAA official who until recently was the tower manager at Burbank.
    11. She thanked her family, especially her husband Emilio, "who waited until we got to the hospital before he fainted, and my son Nayib, who held my hand while we waited for the ambulances.
    12. Cominco and Teck, which own a combined 21% of Aur's shares, also will gain representation on Aur's board. However, the companies extended an agreement to support Aur's current management until 1996.
    13. Jordan ruled the West Bank from 1949 until it was captured by Israel in 1967.
    14. Neither forecast proved correct. To make unification a success, Germany will need to maintain public sector transfers from west to east of at least DM100bn (Pounds 35.8bn) a year until the end of the decade.
    15. The sharpest impact could come in Britain, where women get full retirement benefits at age 60 while men must wait until 65. Pension plans in Belgium, Greece and Portugal also may have to be rewritten.
    16. Poindexter would be delayed until at least June 10.
    17. NASA officials Sunday said they would not set a new launch date until Monday.
    18. He will give negotiators until Jan. 13 to accept or reject it.
    19. 'We are not going away until that number is achieved,' says Mr Andrew Procassini, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association, the US industry trade group.
    20. And Freeman stayed in the business until an eye ailment forced his retirement a few months ago.
    21. It wasn't until he returned from playing racquetball at 6:30 p.m. EST that Bush learned his nemesis had agreed to leave the Vatican's Panama City embassy and surrender, aides said.
    22. But the company said results were weaker than expected at its units in Canada, Britain and Australia. It added that its foreign units probably won't return to profitability until 1992.
    23. But the opposition demanded that a multiparty interim legislature govern until elections are held. Voting is tentatively set for July.
    24. But then I had to leave, and I made my way through the fighting until I was able to reach my mother's house." A Red Cross spokesman said many people were donating food to the refugees _ "as much as they can spare."
    25. The governor's office wouldn't discuss in any detail the audit's findings until the report is released Friday.
    26. Analysts said the stock market would not make a healthy advance until volume increases.
    27. Factories, until now spared the worst of the austerity measures, would face the same power cuts as households, it said.
    28. Stone was ordered to remain in custody until April 8, when he is next due in court.
    29. The Bharatiya Janata Party supports the plan, and the government has vowed to stop it until the matter is heard in court.
    30. The fact that the Stock Exchange will take no decision on the date of T+5 until October has been in the public domain for months.
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