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　　it was not until that

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　　常用释义：

　　直到……才

　　直到……才（was是is的过去式和过去分词）

　　1、It was not until that ship was near sinking did the radiomen send out the new signal.───直到该船快要沉没时，报务员才发出了这个新的呼救信号S.O.S。

　　2、It was not until that ship was near sinking did the radiomen send out the new signal.───直到该船快要沉没时，报务员才发出了这个新的呼救信号s.o.s。

　　3、When I returned the following week I was then alone in the apartment and

　　it was not until that

　　Wednesday afternoon that I began to notice very odd occurrences when I would return from school.───第二个星期我又一个人回到了在小镇的家，从那个周三下午开始。每次放学回家后我就会发现很多奇怪的现象。

　　4、until late that night in bed that John noticed from a calendar hanging on the wall that it was August the Twenty-sixth.───那天晚上，约翰躺在床上，很晚才从墙上挂的日历上看到今天是8月26日。

　　5、It was not until that evening that a nurse thought to dip a testing strip into Sams urine and they finally got a diagnosis.───在傍晚来临之前一个护士想到应该化验下Sam的尿液，终于他们找到了诊断。

　　1、how was it that───怎么回事

　　2、not that───并非；并不是说

　　3、was it───n.瓦西特（伊拉克东部的一个省）

　　4、that was it───那是它（was是is的过去式）；就是这样（was是is的过去式）；仅此而已（was是is的过去式）；就是它（was是is的过去式）

　　5、not until───直到…才…

　　6、it was───那是（过去）

　　7、was not───非

　　8、until───prep.到……时，直到……为止；conj.到……时，直到……为止

　　9、that it───是吗

　　时间状语从句。

　　"it was not until" 是一个英语句型，用于表示“直到……才”的意思。这个句型通常由 "it was not until" 引导一个时间状语从句，后面接一个表示时间的短语或句子。

　　所以it was not until是时间状语从句。