by now

短语
大学

到目前为止

教材释义与例句

短语

此刻已经

短语

到目前为止；到如今；到现在为止

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    The hour being what it is; the hour being so advanced; considering that it is so far in time already; now that so much time has elapsed; if not before, now at the latest.

    Near-synonyms: already, at this stage, at this point

    My parents ought to've arrived by now. I wonder what's keeping them.

    Totally overwhelmed by now, I started to hand out the fliers willy-nilly.

    By now an angry crowd had collected outside.

词源

See by, sense 3: “not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval)”.

来源：wiktionary