Till
[tɪl]
解释:
(noun.) unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together.
(verb.) work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation; 'till the soil'.
整理:尼古拉斯--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A vetch; a tare.
(n.) A drawer.
(n.) A tray or drawer in a chest.
(n.) A money drawer in a shop or store.
(n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.
(n.) A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
(v. t.) To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.
(conj.) As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until.
(prep.) To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm.
(prep.) To prepare; to get.
(v. i.) To cultivate land.
编辑:洛娜
同义词及近义词:
n. Money-drawer.
prep. Until, to the time of, up to.
conj. or ad. Until, to the time when.
v. a. Cultivate.
卡洛琳手打
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Plow, prepare, cultivate, dress, tend
ANT:Neglect, waste, abandon, fallow
安娜校对
解释:
n. a money-box or drawer in a desk counter or trunk.
n. the usual name in Scotland for Boulder-clay a widely-distributed stony clay usually tough and hard unquestionably the result of glaciation probably being merely the bottom-moraine or ground-moraine of extinct glaciers.
prep. to the time of.—adv. to the time when: to the degree that.
v.t. to cultivate.—adj. Till′able arable.—ns. Till′age act or practice of tilling: husbandry: a place tilled; Till′er; Till′ing.
弗雷达录入
娱乐性解释:
To dream of seeing money and valuables in a till, foretells coming success. Your love affairs will be exceedingly favorable. An empty one, denotes disappointed expectations.
迦勒编辑
例句:
- I did not invite her back till it was too late. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- He _could not_ walk on, till daylight came again; and here he stretched himself close to the wall--to undergo new torture. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- But she took such a long walk up and down our rooms that night, while I was writing to Agnes, that I began to think she meant to walk till morning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The quarter is not due till Christmas, but you may pay it, and have done with it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- It was not, however, till the invention of telegraphs that anything approaching to the means of holding regular communication by signals was attained. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- He always used to say 'twas his nose bleedn, till he must have pomped all the blood out of 'um. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Till the Mounds is down and this business completed, you're accountable for all the property, recollect. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I should like that well enough, dear,' replied Charlotte; 'but tills ain't to be emptied every day, and people to get clear off after it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Tills be blowed! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- The man who had discovered that it could be tilled died of the labour; the man who succeeded him in possession ruined himself in fertilizing it. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The attitude of the common people who tilled the fields and herded the beasts towards the temple would remain simple and credulous. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- While my father carried on the manufacture of leather and worked at the trade himself, he owned and tilled considerable land. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I saw common men, there--men who were neither priests nor princes--who yet absolutely owned the land they tilled. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Nowhere was there evidence of a man tilling the fields or performing any of the homely duties of the village. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- But as the Roman Empire grew, its armies absorbed its intelligent farmers, the tilling of the soil was left to the menial and the slave, and the Empire and agriculture declined together. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
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