until

conj

• ①[表动作或状态的继续]迄…时,直到…时;在…之前
  • We must wait until she arrives.我们必须等到她来。
  • She cried until she fell asleep.她哭到睡着了。
  • Until you told me, I had never thought that she was married.在你告诉我之前,我从未想到她已结婚。
  • She didn't come until the party was half over.她到聚会过了一半才来。
  • It was not until he was sixty that he started to write.他到六十岁才开始写作。
  • Not until I graduated from college did I think of it.我到大学毕业时才想到这件事。

• ②[表结果、程度]至…程度;直到(★常有在until之后加at last, finally等者)
  • He worked and worked until (at last) he succeeded.他一直工作到成功为止。