| 释义 |
since/sins/ prep., conj. & adv.●prep. throughout, or at a point in, the period between (a specified time, event, etc.) and the time present or being considered 自…以来，自…以后 must have happened since yesterday 一定是从昨天起就已发生了； has been going on since June 自从 6 月以来一直在进行； the greatest composer since Beethoven 贝多芬之后最伟大的作曲家 ●conj. 1 during or in the time after 自…以来(以后) what have you been doing since we met? 自我们上次见面以来，你一直在做什么？ has not spoken since the dog died 自从狗死了之后就没开过口 2 for the reason that, because; inasmuch as 因为，既然 since you are drunk I will drive you home 由于你喝醉了，我会开车送你回家 3 (ellipt. [省略]) as being 由于 a more useful, since better designed, tool 由于设计得更好而更为有用的工具 ●adv. 1 from that time or event until now or the time being considered 从那以后，此后，后来 have not seen them since 从那以后一直没见过他们； had been healthy ever since 此后一直很健康； has since been cut down 从那时起就削减了 2 ago 之前，以前 happened many years since 多年以前发生的 [Middle English, reduced form of obsolete sithence, or from dialect sin (from sithen ‘then, thereupon, afterwards’) from Old English siththon] |