hitherto是什么意思？

hitherto

英[ˌhɪðəˈtu:] 美[ˌhɪðərˈtu]

• adv. 到目前为止，迄今，至今；

例句

• a hitherto unnoticed detail 一个迄今未有人注意的细节
• She discovered a world of parties and pleasure she had hitherto only known by hearsay. 她发现了一个以前只是略有听闻的花花世界。
• Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.-- Lincoln 卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。
• His brain wilted from hitherto unprecedented weariness ( Vladimir Nabokov ) 因迄今为止从未有过的疲劳,他感到萎靡不振 ( 弗拉基米尔纳博科夫 )
• Increased computational power will also make hitherto unrealized approaches feasible. 增加的计算机性能也将使目前还未被发现的方法变得可能.
• This was what Linden had hitherto shrunk from doing, but the situation was desperate. 这是林登一直不愿做的事, 可现在情况已经到了山穷水尽的地步.
• All Utopias that have hitherto been constructed are intolerably dull. 到现在为止,一切虚构出来的乌托邦都是愚蠢不堪的.
• 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 he had experienced no great success in his attempt. 到目前为止,他的尝试还没获得成功.
• a hitherto unknown species of moth 迄今仍属未知种类的蛾

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADV
  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.
  例句
  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。

英汉词典释义

• adv.
  到目前为止
  Hitherto he had experienced no great success in his attempt. 到目前为止, 他的尝试还没获得成功。

英英词典释义

• Adverb
  1. 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"