這個拼法底下其實是3個不同的字,意思沒有關係, 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 cash register · till (=until) · till (=plough land)

1

till

n

唸法不同同樣的拼法,這個字的唸法跟另一個不一樣。/tɪl/

核心畫面

You can hold this till as the cash drawer at a shop counter — the machine that adds up the bill and holds the money. From that drawer the word stretches to the money sitting inside it, and then to the image of a worker quietly slipping a hand into that drawer to steal.

可以把這個 till 想成店家櫃台上的收銀抽屜——那台會把帳算出來、又把錢收在裡面的機器。從這個抽屜出發,這個字延伸更多收起可以把這個 till 想成店家櫃台上的收銀抽屜——那台會把帳算出來、又把錢收在裡面的機器。從這個抽屜出發,這個字延伸到抽屜裡裝的那筆錢,再延伸到一個畫面:員工偷偷把手伸進那個抽屜裡偷錢。

A second word, same spelling

2

till

prep

唸法不同同樣的拼法,這個字的唸法跟另一個不一樣。/tɪl, tl/

核心畫面

You can picture this till as drawing a line on time and saying 'all the way up to here, then stop' — it just marks the end-point of a stretch of time. It is the everyday spoken twin of 'until': wait, keep going, stay open... right up to that moment.

可以把這個 till 想成在時間上畫一條線,說「一路到這裡為止」——它只是標出一段時間的終點。它其實就是 until更多收起可以把這個 till 想成在時間上畫一條線,說「一路到這裡為止」——它只是標出一段時間的終點。它其實就是 until 比較口語的雙胞胎:等著、繼續、開著……一直到那個時刻為止。

A second word, same spelling

3

till

v

核心畫面

You can picture this till as a farmer turning over the soil with a plough or , breaking up the earth and getting it ready so seeds can take root. It is hands-in-the-dirt work on the land before anything grows.

可以把這個 till 想成農夫用犁或鋤頭把土翻開,把泥土打鬆、整好,好讓種子能扎根。它是種東西之前、在田裡親手翻土整更多收起可以把這個 till 想成農夫用犁或鋤頭把土翻開,把泥土打鬆、整好,好讓種子能扎根。它是種東西之前、在田裡親手翻土整地的那種活。

原始詞典資料22 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Tillname

  • 1

    A placename:

    • Tweed says to Till: "What gars ye rin sae still ?" Till says to Tweed: "Tho ye rin wi' speed And I rin slaw Whar ye droon ae man,
  • 2

    A placename:

  • 3

    A placename:

  • 4

    A surname.

    • Technically speaking, it’s Lucas Till, the actor playing Tripp, who is far too old to be riding a school bus, not his character in Monster Trucks, who is written as a 16-year-old, maybe 17 tops. But Till does not look 16, nor 17, nor even 18.
    • “How to hide, survive and use the urban environment as a sanctuary was a challenge but the soldiers adapted to the real-life challenges,” ETG Commander Col. Toby Till explained.

tillprep詞源 1/tɪl/

  • 1

    Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).

    • She stayed till the very end.
    • I have to work till eight o'clock tonight.
  • 2

    Before (a certain time or event).

    • It's twenty till two. (1:40)
    • Is that the town-clock striking? / I think that it is to-night / My fever will reach its crisis, / There are long hours yet till light.
  • 3

    obsoletedialectalTo, up to (physically).

    • They led him till his tent
    • She, poor bird, as all forlorn / Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn / And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, / To to hear it was great pity.
  • 4

    obsoletedialectalTo, toward (in attitude).

    • "Well, Georgey," said he, "and soa you're leaving t'ould hoose at last?" - "Heigh, Johnny, my lad, I'm forced tull it; for that damned Boggart torments us soa, we can neither rest neet nor day for't."
    • "Here's at you old hoss!" hiccupped I, with a friendly pitch in the way of a nod at Rice. "Go it, young grampus, that's me! Here's till ye, my infant progidy!" replied he, as he clinked his glass against mine.
  • 5

    dialectalSo that (something may happen).

    • 1953?, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot VLADIMIR: Together again at last! We'll have to celebrate this. But how? (He reflects.) Get up till I embrace you.

tillconj詞源 1/tɪl/

  • 1

    Until, until the time that.

    • Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.
    • I charge you, O ye daughters of Ierusalem, by the Roes, and by the hindes of the field, that ye stirre not vp, nor awake my loue, till she please.

tillnoun詞源 2/tɪl/

  • 1

    A cash register.

    • I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.
  • 2

    A removable box within a cash register containing the money.

    • Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.
    • When you've finished serving that customer could you jump off please? We need to take the till.
  • 3

    The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.

    • My count of my till was 30 dollars short.
  • 4

    A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.

  • 5

    obsoleteA tray or drawer in a chest.

tillverb詞源 3/tɪl/

  • 1

    To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).

  • 2

    To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.

    • Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
  • 3

    To cultivate soil.

  • 4

    obsoleteTo prepare; to get.

    • Nor knowes a trappe nor snare to till

tillnoun詞源 4/tɪl/

  • 1

    glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders

  • 2

    dialectalmanure or other material used to fertilize land

tillnoun詞源 5/tɪl/

  • 1

    A vetch; a tare.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。