up to the point in time or the event mentioned 到…時;直到…爲止 Let's wait until the rain stops. 咱們等雨停了吧。 Until she spoke I hadn't realized she wasn't English. 直到她開口說話我才知道她不是英格蘭人。 You're not going out until you've finished this. 你沒把這事做完就不準出去。 Until now I have always lived alone. 直到現在,我一直獨自生活。 They moved here in 2009. Until then they'd always been in the London area. 他們 2009 年搬到這裏,之前一直住在倫敦地區。 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. 街上從早到晚車水馬龍。 You can stay on the bus until London (= until you reach London). 你可以不用下車,直到公車到達倫敦。
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse und ‘as far as’ + till ‘until’ (the sense thus duplicated).