Hitherto existed hiə'tu adv.迄今,至今 adverb describing state circumstance

英语单词	hitherto
英美音标	[hiə'tu:]
中文释义	adv.迄今,至今
vocab简明	Use the adverb hitherto when you're describing a state or circumstance that existed up until now. If you find a hitherto undiscovered hidden tunnel in your cellar, you're the first to discover it.
vocab扩展	When some particular situation has existed so far, up until the moment that you're speaking of, you can use the word hitherto to talk about it. You could say that you're taking a hot air balloon ride that you were hitherto too scared to contemplate, or that a very shy girl in your philosophy class who was hitherto totally silent finally spoke up today and asked a very intelligent question.
真题原句	As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has *hitherto* been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.
柯林斯星级	★☆☆☆☆
柯林斯解释	1 [ADV 副词]迄今；到目前为止 You use hitherto to indicate that something was true up until the time you are talking about, although it may no longer be the case. [ADV after v] [FORMAL 正式] 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。
来源	2011.1

Tags: 单词::2011

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Hitherto Existed Hiə'Tu Adv.迄今,至今 Adverb Describing State Circumstance