до каких пор

• ДО КАКИХ <КОТОРЫХ> ПОР

[PrepP; these forms only; adv; fixed WO]

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1. until what time, for how much more time:

- (for) how long;

- until <till> when;

- how much longer;

- [in limited contexts] when (will one stop doing sth.)

     ♦ [Анна Петровна:] Скажите: до каких пор будут ненавидеть меня отец и мать? (Чехов 4). [A.P.:] Tell me: how long will my father and mother goon hating me? (4a). [A.P:] Tell me, when will my mother and father stop hating me? (4b).

     ♦ "Отпустите, ради Христа... Измотались все, тоской изошли... До каких же пор?.. Господи!.. Неужели не отпустите?" (Шолохов 3). "Let us go, for Christ's sake. ...We've had as much as we can stand. ...How much longer?. ...God almighty!. ...Won't you let us go?" (3a).

2. coll (in refer, to s.o.'s reading, memorizing etc sth.) up to what point:

- up to where <what page, what part etc>;

- how far (one has gotten <read up to etc>).

     ♦ Когда я спросил его, до каких пор он прочитал конспект, он сказал, что ещё даже не начинал его. When I asked him how far he had gotten in reading that abstract, he said he hadn't even started it