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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