hitherto
英 [ˌhɪðəˈtuː]
美 [ˌhɪðərˈtuː]
adv. 迄今; 直到某时
Collins.1 / BNC.4192 / COCA.16041
牛津词典
adv.
- 迄今；直到某时
until now; until the particular time you are talking about- a hitherto unknown species of moth
迄今仍属未知种类的蛾
- a hitherto unknown species of moth
柯林斯词典
- ADV 迄今;到目前为止
You usehithertoto indicate that something was true up until the time you are talking about, although it may no longer be the case.- The polytechnics have hitherto been at an unfair disadvantage in competing for pupils and money...
到目前为止，理工专科学校在争取生源和资金方面一直处于劣势。 - Hitherto, the main emphasis has been on the need to resist aggression...
迄今为止，一直重点强调的是要抵抗侵略。 - The helicopter is the first in the world to be designed to serve three hitherto very distinct markets.
这款直升机是世界上首批为满足3个迄今为止完全不同的市场而设计的机型。
- The polytechnics have hitherto been at an unfair disadvantage in competing for pupils and money...
英英释义
adv
- used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
- So far he hasn't called
- the sun isn't up yet
双语例句
- Whether they were alive or not, this was a riddle hitherto unknown.
他们是生是死，迄今还是一个谜。 - But all experiments hitherto made to see whether magnetism has any effect whatsoever on animals have given negative results.
但是到目前为止所进行的一切旨在弄清磁力对动物究竟有什么影响的试验都给予了否定的回答。 - It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right.
亚伯拉罕·林肯：迄今，关于世界的历史，人们一直说强权即公理，现在应该让我们，让我们这个时代，来颠倒这种说法，让我们说：公理即强权。 - She has hitherto been relatively nice to me.
她至今对我还算不错。 - Modern technology has solved so many hitherto insoluble problems.
现代技术解决了很多迄今解决不了的问题。 - For hitherto though I have lost all my time.
迄今我虽然失去了全部的时日。 - Its scientists have hitherto made individual contributions.
迄今为止，印度科学家已经对IPCC做出了个人的贡献。 - This is a fact hitherto unknown.
这是一个至今无人知道的事实。 - This latter way is the true one, but hitherto untried.
这后一种方法是真实的，但尚未有人试用过。 - This creates a cliff effect where markets suddenly fall as investors lose confidence in hitherto safe sovereign assets.
这制造了一种悬崖效应，市场突然向下坠落，因为投资者对此前安全的主权资产失去信心。