until
conjunction, preposition /ənˈtɪl/
/ənˈtɪl/
(also informal till, til, ’til)
- up to the point in time or the event mentioned
到…时；直到…为止 - Let's wait until the rain stops.
咱们等雨停了吧。 - Until she spoke I hadn't realized she wasn't English.
直到她开口说话我才知道她不是英格兰人。 - You're not going out until you've finished this.
你没把这事做完就不准出去。 - Until now I have always lived alone.
直到现在，我一直独自生活。 - They moved here in 2009. Until then they'd always been in the London area.
他们 2009 年搬到这里，之前一直住在伦敦地区。 - He continued working up until his death.
他一直工作到去世。 - The street is full of traffic from morning till night.
街上从早到晚车水马龙。 - You can stay on the bus until London (= until you reach London).
你可以不用下车，直到公车到达伦敦。
词源Middle English: from Old Norse und ‘as far as’ + till ‘until’ (the sense thus duplicated). - Let's wait until the rain stops.