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not until的用法有哪些

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Not until用法

1. 如果(主)句中的謂語動詞是終止性動詞,應採用“... not ... until ...”結構,意為“……到……時候才……”。例如:

You mustn’t eat anything until you see the doctor.

看過醫生之後,你才能吃東西。

Don’t get off the bus until it has stopped.

車停穩了以後再下車。

2. 如果(主)句中的謂語動詞是延續性動詞,那麼謂語動詞用肯定式或否定式,它們所表達的意思有所不同。

1) 如果謂語動詞為肯定式,則until譯為“到……時候為止”。例如:

I watched TV until she came back.

我看電視一直看到她回來。

2) 如果謂語動詞為否定式,則until應譯為“到……時候才”,即“在……以前不”。例如:

I did not watch TV until she came back. (= I began to watch TV when/after she came back.)

直到她回來我才開始看電視。

3. 用終止性動詞作謂語時, until既可以和not連用,又可以和never, nobody, nothing, few, little, seldom, hardly等含否定意義的詞連用。例如:

I had not seen him until 1990. (= I had never seen him until 1990.)

1990年以前我從未見過他。

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today. (= Never put off what you can do today till tomorrow.)

今日事,今日畢。

4. 連詞until引導的從句中謂語動詞的時態。

1)主句的謂語動詞為一般現在時或一般將來時時, until從句中的謂語動詞為現在完成時,用來強調從句謂語動詞表示的動作發生在主句謂語動詞表示的動作之前。試比較:

I won’t go to bed until I have finished my homework.

我要完成作業才睡覺。

2)主句中的謂語動詞為一般過去時時,從句中的謂語動詞為過去完成時,用來強調從句謂語動詞的動作發生在主句謂語動詞表示的.動作之前。試比較:

Li Lei didn’t come until the film had begun.

直到電影開演,李雷才來。

〔特別提醒〕till和until的意思基本相同,用法也基本一樣,但until語氣較重,多用於較正式的文體裏。 till多用於英式英語, until多用於美式英語; till不能用在句首,也不能用在not開頭的短語或從句裏,而until可以。例如:

Until he came home, we knew the news.

在他到家之前,我們不知道這消息。

Not until nine o’clock yesterday evening did we finish the work.

直到昨晚九點,我們才完成這項工作。

Not until例句

It was not until morning that the sheer scale of the damage could be seen.

直到早晨才看清了損害的嚴重程度。

It was not until 1974 that his ability to write gelled again.

直到1974年,他的寫作才華才又得以發揮。

It was not until 1911 that the first of the vitamins was identified.

直到1911年才發現了第一種維生素。

was not until yesterday that I learned it.

頂昨天我才聽説這件事。

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