英語副詞，意為"迄今；至今"。其英式讀音為[ˌhɪðəˈtuː]，美式讀音為[ˌhɪðərˈtuː]，屬正式書面語，多用於學術文獻、新聞報導及文學作品，常見短語如"hitherto unknown"（迄今未知）、"hitherto existing"（迄今存在的）等。作為時間狀語常與完成時態連用，在否定句中描述持續狀態，近義詞包括"heretofore""so far"，但語義更正式，側重書面語境的時間界定功能。
基本介紹
- 外文名：hitherto
- 詞性：副詞
- 英式讀音：[ˌhɪðəˈtuː]
- 美式讀音：[ˌhɪðərˈtuː]
短語搭配,雙語例句,
短語搭配
hitherto 到目前為止
willmigerl hitherto迄今
A Hitherto迄今為止貌似
雙語例句
But nothing was hitherto known of their work.
迄今，人們對他們的工作一無所知。
This, they told me, is far in excess of anything hitherto attained.
為此，他們告訴我，是遠遠超出了任何迄今達到的。
They are a way in or out of your Earth, and hitherto we have protected you from direct interference.
它們是一個穿越地球的通道，迄今為止我們已經從直接的干預中保護了你們。
In himself, too, he knew that it was vibrating at last, that chord hitherto dormant and unsuspected.
在他自己心裡，他也知道那根弦終於在顫動了，那根弦一直蟄伏著，不曾被察覺。
Unfortunately, because this approach fails to deal with the underlying causes of inflation, wage and price controls eventually collapse, the hitherto-repressed inflation resurfaces.
不幸的是，由於這種方法未能解決通脹的根本原因，工資和價格控制最終崩潰，迄今為止受到壓制的通脹再次出現。
The work fills (in) a gap which has hitherto existed in our archaeological literature.
這部著作填補了我國考古學文獻中的一個空白。
《新英漢大辭典》
Hitherto we haven't been successful.
不過目前為止我們還沒有成功做到這一點。
Britain has hitherto been more relaxed.
英國迄今為止還比較寬鬆。
Hitherto, they have met with Socialist scorn.
目前為止，他們都受到工人社會黨的蔑視。
A hitherto polite dispute is acquiring a sharper edge.
迄今為止貌似斯文的爭端正在變得尖銳有棱。
Hitherto it has succeeded in drawing a line between them.
迄今為止，該報在此二者間有效地劃定了界線。
The uprising has hitherto been fiercest in rural areas.
迄今為止，發生在鄉村地區的動亂是最為劇烈的。
A hitherto unknown captain, Moussa Camara, had formed a junta.
無名小卒穆薩•卡馬拉組成了一夥軍人團體。
Whether they were alive or not, this was a riddle hitherto unknown.
他們是生是死，迄今還是一個謎。
Even Goldman Sachs, hitherto relatively unscathed, has suffered.
甚至以前股價幾乎毫髮無損的高盛公司的股價也下跌了。
They needn’t even be ennobled, as interlopers have hitherto been.
迄今為止要中途進入內閣需都要被封為貴族，而他們卻不需要。
A hitherto secretive firm may be uncomfortable under the spotlight.
一家迄今神秘的公司在聚光燈下可能會感到不自在。
Hitherto, pragmatism has prevailed and they have sided with the Turks.
到目前為止，實用主義盛行，他們站到了土耳其這邊。
And a bunch of hitherto not-so-terrible lizards began their long march.
一直存活至今的一群不那么可怕的蜥蜴開始了它們的漫長征程。
Hitherto Japan is the only country to have been authorized to make legal bids.
迄今為止日本是唯一被批准可以合法投標的國家。
But that also raises privacy concerns on a far larger scale than hitherto.
然而，與目前的狀況相比，這樣做也會在更大的程度上引發人們對隱私的擔憂。
Others may need a little encouragement to buy fish hitherto unknown to them.
其他人對於購買他們迄今尚不了解的魚來說，可能需要一點鼓勵。
Hitherto European integration has been pushed through economic liberalisation.
目前歐洲一體化已經通過經濟自由化得到了推動。
Hitherto, genetic modification has been the work of apprentices and journeymen.
過去，基因改造只是學徒或者傭工的活。
But the handset and the network service have hitherto come from different companies.
但手機和網路服務迄今仍來自於不同的公司。
And the Irish monks were not as isolated as people have hitherto imagined either.
那些愛爾蘭僧人們可能並不像人們現在想像得那么孤獨。
Thanks to the credit crunch, Fed loosening plainly packs less punch than hitherto.
由於信貸危機，很明顯聯儲現在的信貸寬鬆的程度要比過去大得多。
