un·til /ənˈtɪl, ˈtɛl; ˈʌnˌ, tḷ/
直到,在…以前,迄…之時(conj.)直到,在…以前,迄…時
Un·til prep.
1. To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects.
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.
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.
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