since

B1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #312 ★★★★★

prep. 自...以后, 自...以来 adv. 自那时以后 conj. 既然, 自...以后, 自...以来

发音

US /sɪn(t)s/

别名

sence sith

教材释义与例句

副词

后来

When you are talking about an event or situation in the past, you use since to indicate that another event happened at some point later in time

介词

自…以来；自…以后

from a particular time or event in the past until the present, or in that period of time

连词

因为；由于；既然；自…以来；自…以后

释义与例句

adv. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    From a specified time in the past.

    从那以后

    后来

    I met him last year, but haven't seen him since.

    A short/long time since

prep. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.

    Continuously during that period of time.

    自从

    自

    从

    I'd known her only since the previous year, so from/since the moment we got married we’ve quarrelled.

    I'd been working since six o’clock, and I was getting tired.

  2. 2.

    From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.

    At certain points during that period of time.

conj. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    From the time that.

    自从

    自

    从

    I have loved you since I first met you.

    I've known her since I've lived in her street, but I've not seen her out of the house since her husband died.

  2. 2.

    Because.

    因为

    由于

    Since you didn't call, we left without you.

  3. 3.

    When or that.

    废旧

相关短语

make sense 有意义 since when since Skippy was a pup since Adam was an oakum boy since Adam was an oakum boy in Chatham Dockyard since Hector was a pup since long since Adam was a boy since God was a boy greatest thing since sliced bread best thing since sliced bread best thing since sliced pan long since 很久以前, 早已 ever since 从那时到现在 make since

词源

From Middle English syns, synnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after, since”) ( + -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since, after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”), Icelandic síðan (“since”) Scots syne (“since”).

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