【since音标】 英[sɪns] 美[sɪns]
【单词释义】 since是什么意思：
prep.从…以来；自从…之后；自从
adv.以后，此后；后来；（距今几年）以前；（从那时候起几年）以前
conj.自从…以来；自从…的时候起；既然；因为
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【since形近词/近似词】
evince vt.表明，表示
mince v.切碎，绞碎 n.[U] 绞碎的肉，肉末
prince n.王子
convince vt.使相信，说服
wince vi.龇牙咧嘴；畏缩，退避
province n.省份
【单词例句】
◇ Since then, people have learned to make the food which became known as "dumpling". Today there is still a saying that goes "Eat dumplings on Start of Winter Day, or your ears will be frostbitten".
从那以后，人们学会了制作这种食物，也就是后来俗称的“饺子”。时至今日仍然有“立冬不端饺子碗，冻掉耳朵没人管”的说法。
---- Start of Winter
◇ Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling.
现在大家就看出来了。她是一位真正的公主，因为压在这二十床垫子和二十床鸭绒被下面的三粒豌豆，她居然还能感觉得出来。除了真正的公主以外，任何人都不会有这么嫩的皮肤的。
---- The Real Princess
◇ My sister was fond of traveling. Ever since graduating, she had been determined to organize a trip to an old temple.
我的妹妹很喜欢旅行。自从毕业以来，她就下定决心要组织一次往一座古庙的旅行。
---- A Hard Trip
◇ Since then scientists have come to learn that snowflakes can only form into 35 different shapes. Although scientists are also unsure why exactly the various shapes of snowflake form, they have identified eight predominant shapes, with each of these eight shapes having several different variations.
之后，科学家了解到雪花只会有35种不同形状的造型。虽然科学家也不清楚雪花会形成各种各样形状的准确原因，但是他们已经确定出了雪花的8种主要形状，这8种形状中的每一种又有几种不同的变化。
---- 3 biggest snow myths that will surprise you
◇ The process also gives each side of your nose a break, since a constant stream of heavily flowing air can dry it out and kill off the small hairs that protect you from foreign contaminants.
这一过程也能让你的两个鼻孔稍微休息一下，因为如果不断有大量空气流过鼻孔，会导致鼻孔干燥并损害鼻毛，鼻毛能够保护你不受外来污染物伤害。
---- Only One Side of Your Nose Gets Blocked at a Time
◇ In the centuries since, crying crocodiles have become a metaphor for superficial remorse. The expression has been used as a fable to teach sincere repentance, by Shakespeare to convey false grief, and, more recently, by media mocking tearful politicians or murder suspects.
从那以后的数个世纪以来，哭泣的鳄鱼便被用来比喻虚伪的悔恨。这个表达曾作为寓言用来告诫人们要真心悔悟，也曾被莎士比亚用来指代假意的悲伤，到了现代，则被媒体用于嘲讽流泪的政客或谋杀嫌疑犯。
---- Where does the expression 'crocodile tears'
◇ Tierno says all that gunk becomes "significant" in as little as a week. And unclean bedding still exposes you to materials that can trigger the sniffing and sneezing, since the microbes are so close to your mouth and nose that you're almost forced to breathe them in.
缇艾诺说，在短短一周的时间里，这些污物就会变得“严重”起来。不清洁的床单被罩会让你暴露在这些物质中，从而引发鼻炎和喷嚏，因为微生物离你的嘴和鼻子太近了，你几乎是被迫将它们吸进去。
---- How often you should wash your bed sheets?
◇ Astronomers have witnessed the biggest bang since the Big Bang — the moment about 15 billion years ago when the universe was created in a massive explosion.The huge burst of energy from the edge of the universe is estimated to be second only to the moment of creation in its explosive force,releasing more energy in two seconds than the sun will give out in its lifetime.
天文学家目击了最大的宇宙大爆炸——这次大爆炸是发生在150亿年前宇宙在一次大爆炸形成的时候。从宇宙边缘所爆发的能量在爆炸力方面估计仅次于宇宙创世大爆炸，两秒钟爆炸所释放的能量比太阳一生释放的能量还要多。
---- The Big Bang
◇ If so, should we complain about our life and become frustrated and disappointed ever since then or should we be grateful for our life, rise again ourselves after a fall?
面对困难，我们是懊恼抱怨、沮丧气馁，陷入绝望，还是对生活满怀感恩之心，跌倒后再爬起来呢？
---- Being Grateful
◇ The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy didn't appear since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.
看到他高兴，树也很高兴。但是，自从那时起男孩没再出现，树有孤独，伤心起来。
---- A Boy and His Tree