英:[ˌhɪðəˈtuː]
美:[ˌhɪðərˈtuː]
英:[ˌhɪðəˈtuː]
美:[ˌhɪðərˈtuː]
hith·er·to
hI thr tu
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"
约于1200年,来自 hither 和 to。
The first known use of hitherto was in the 13th century
hit1 of 2verb
to strike usually with force the ball hit the house
hit a ball
to make or bring into contact with something
tipped over and hit the floor
to strike something aimed at
hit the bull's-eye
attack entry 1 sense 1
to affect as if by a blow
to arrive with a forceful effect
the storm hit at sundown
to come upon : discover
hit upon the answer accidentally
to get to : reach prices hit a new high
hit town that night
to reflect accurately
hits the right note
to fire the charge in the cylinders
hit2 of 2noun
a blow striking an object aimed at
blow entry 4 sense 1, collision
a stroke of luck
a great success
the show was a hit
base hit
a single dose of a narcotic drug
an instance of a computer user connecting to a given website
a million hits per day
a successful match in a computer search
hithertoadverb
up to this time
hitherto unknown facts
1 The two-day festival kicks off at 1pm on Saturday, and sees pop's great and good descend on a hitherto untroubled patch of marshland.
2 A painter's heirs have nothing to gain by authenticating hitherto unattributed works that are not in their possession.
3 This volume, richly illustrated, is part of the North American Jules Verne Society’s Palik series, which makes available in English hitherto neglected works.
4 Many read The Impressionist; many more read – with mounting bile and envy – about how the then 31-year-old, hitherto impecunious journalist had got one of the most lucrative book contracts ever.
5 The third novel included in this omnibus is Smith’s hitherto unpublished homage to the famous detective Sexton Blake, but I’m saving it — and the short story “The Imperfect Crime” — for sometime later this fall.
6 Prosecutors confiscated works by Renaissance and Modernist masters, some long thought lost in the war, others hitherto undocumented.
7 Suddenly it seemed that there was a hitherto unacknowledged problem with the word ‘revolution’ and indeed with the word ‘science’, too, for these are our words, not theirs.
8 I did not doubt Mechtild’s wisdom, but I struggled to take for truth what I had hitherto only suspected.
9 Towering genius disdains a beaten path. He seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走国的路, 他寻找迄今未被开拓的新天地.
10 All will be up for sale at the first live auction staged by the Prop Store, a company that specialises in selling movie props and costumes that has hitherto dealt only on the internet.
11 Artists of varied identities were finally being invited into the Biennial – hitherto the Whitney’s restricted country club – but only if their work dealt directly with their condition of social exclusion.
12 For we have hitherto mostly focused on breakfast made for oneself.
13 With the advent of glasnost, however, Bolshoi dancers wanted access to the hitherto forbidden repertory of the west.
14 One of the key thinkers venerated by Putin and his circle is a hitherto obscure Russian fascist, Ivan Ilyin, whose views are absurd but terrifying in their implications.
15 So, the struggle to conserve life-forms is starting to get the kind of attention hitherto lavished only upon the climate.
16 And by drawing on hitherto unpublished documentary sources he provides a riveting chronicle of the composer’s tangled relationships.
17 The duplicate flight initiates a hitherto unused security measure called Protocol 42.
18 What still amazes is how such hitherto lowbrow laughs are elevated to almost graceful perfection.
19 It would assist England immeasurably if this hitherto aloof character could inspire some sympathy.
如果他迄今所表现出来的冷淡的性格能够赢得一些同情的话也许会对英格兰队有所帮助.
20 The invention of the printing press made it possible to accumulate and disseminate knowledge on a scale hitherto unseen.