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。
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse und ‘as far as’ + till ‘until’ (the sense thus duplicated).