2025. 9. 3. 01:13ใIn Canada/English
What does “right up till there's not” mean?
๐ ์ด ํํ์ ๋ฌธ๋งฅ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง์ง๋ง,
๐ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก **“~๊ฐ ์์ ํ ์์ด์ง ๋๊น์ง, ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ๊น์ง”**๋ผ๋ ๋ป์
๋๋ค.
๐ “Right up till”์ **‘~๋ฐ๋ก ์ง์ ๊น์ง’**๋ผ๋ ์๋ฏธ์ด๊ณ ,
๐ “there’s not”์ **‘~๊ฐ ์๋ค’**๋ผ๋ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๋๋ค.
์ฆ, ์ด๋ค ์ํ๊ฐ ๋๋๊ฑฐ๋ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๋๊น์ง ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ๊น์ง ์ง์ํ๋ค๋ ์๋ฏธ์์.
The phrase "Right up till there's not" sounds like an incomplete thought or a casual, conversational way of saying:
Something continues to be true until it suddenly stops.
It’s often used in storytelling or dialogue for a dramatic or ironic effect.
Example:
- "We’ve got plenty of time… right up till there’s not."
- "Everything’s fine—right up till there’s not."
It implies a shift from stability to sudden change, usually unexpectedly.
If you’d like, I can give you 5 natural ways to use this in everyday speech or writing.
Example sentences:
- "He worked hard right up till there's not a single task left."
(๊ทธ๋ ์ผ์ด ํ๋๋ ๋จ์ง ์์ ๋๊น์ง ์ด์ฌํ ์ผํ๋ค.) - "She waited right up till there's not any hope left."
(๊ทธ๋ ๋ ํฌ๋ง์ด ์์ ํ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๋๊น์ง ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ธ๋ค.) - "We stood guard right up till there's not a threat remaining."
(์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ํ์ด ์์ ํ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ๋๊น์ง ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๋ค.)
Expression breakdown:
| Right up till | ๋ฐ๋ก ์ง์ ๊น์ง, ๋๋ ๋๊น์ง |
| There's not | ~๊ฐ ์๋ค, ~๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ค |
์์ญ: "๋๋ ๋๊น์ง", "์์ ํ ์์ด์ง ๋๊น์ง"
Conversation example:
A: How long did you keep working?
B: Right up till there's not a single thing left to do.
A: ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ค๋ ์ผํ์ด?
B: ํ ์ผ์ด ํ๋๋ ๋จ์ง ์์ ๋๊น์ง ๊ณ์ํ์ด.
Summary ์์ฝ:
| Right up till there's not | ~๊ฐ ์์ ํ ์์ด์ง ๋๊น์ง, ๋๋ ๋๊น์ง |
Related phrases:
- Until the very end (๋๊น์ง)
- Up to the last moment (๋ง์ง๋ง ์๊ฐ๊น์ง)
- Till there’s nothing left (์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ๋จ์ง ์์ ๋๊น์ง)
- To the bitter end (์ตํ๊น์ง)
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