exception是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 例外, 除外; 反对; 异议,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I take exception to that, my Lord," said Paganel; "and even if your other conclusions are right, this, at least, seemed to me irrational."
-- But it was soon evident that, with the exception of Thaouka, the wearied animals could not go quicker than a walking pace.
-- The horses displayed signs of the liveliest terror, with the exception of Thaouka, who stamped his foot, and tried to break loose and get out.
-- "Well," said Paganel, "six long months have gone by since we left Europe, and I cannot say what may have happened during that time, with the exception of a few facts which I gathered from the newspapers of Maryborough and Seymour during our Australian journey.
-- The night passed pleasantly with the exception of the attack of the sand-flies, called by the natives, "ngamu," and the visit of the audacious family of rats, who exercised their teeth on the provisions.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With the exception of Mr. Frankland, of Lafter Hall, and Mr. Sta-pleton, the naturalist, there are no other men of education within many miles.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Expectation and suspense were on every face, with the exception of that of the prince, who stood gravely wondering how an affair so entirely personal could have awakened such lively and widespread interest in so short a time.
-- The speech of Lebedeff's nephew caused a certain stir among the company; murmurs arose, though with the exception of Lebedeff, who was still very much excited, ev-eryone was careful not to interfere in the matter.
-- His colossal fortune, with the exception of the comparatively small portion wasted in the first wanton period of his inheritance, went to his broth-er, to the great satisfaction of the latter.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was one man, however, who, by his coun-tenance and actions, formed a marked exception to those who composed the latter class of spectators, being neither idle, nor seemingly very ignorant.
-- His closely-shaved head, on which no other hair than the well-known and chival-rous scalping tuft* was preserved, was without ornament of any kind, with the exception of a solitary eagle's plume, that crossed his crown, and depended over the left shoulder.
-- With the exception of the sounds produced by the rushing waters, and an occasional breath-ing of the air, as it murmured past them in fitful currents, the scene was as still as night and solitude could make it.
-- David alone formed an exception to these varying emo-tions.
-- With the exception of such repeated but brief interrup-tions, he had moved silently from the center of the camp to its most advanced outposts, when he drew nigh the soldier who held his watch nearest to the works of the enemy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With the exception of two or three inconsiderable clusters of cottages which they passed, without stopping, and one lonely road-side public-house where they had some bread and cheese, this highway had led them to nothing late in the afternoon and still lengthened out, far in the distance, the same dull, tedious, winding course, that they had been pursuing all day.
-- Those of Mr and Mrs Quilp, however, were an exception to the general rule; the remarks which they occasioned being limited to a long soliloquy on the part of the gentleman, with perhaps a few deprecatory observations from the lady, not extending beyond a trembling monosyllable uttered at long intervals, and in a very submissive and humble tone.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was not the map we found in Billy Bones's chest, but an accurate copy, complete in all things names and heights and soundings with the single exception of the red crosses and the written notes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The birds disappeared with the exception of the petrels, those friends of the storm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the opposite extremity of the town it was even known that the excavators had been able to open a communication with him through a pipe, and that he had received both soup and brandy by that channel, and that he had said with admirable fortitude that he was All right, my lads, with the exception of his collar-bone.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Exception might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale, on the ground of its indistinctness.
-- In this one matter, Ahab seemed no exception to most American whale captains, who, as a set, rather incline to the opinion that by rights the ship's cabin belongs to them; and that it is by courtesy alone that anybody else is, at any time, permitted there.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She made a very average looking shop-girl with the exception of her features.
-- Carrie looked and beheld a new contract made out like the other one, with the exception of the new figures of salary and time.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Marionette, being no exception to this rule, slept on peacefully for a few hours till well along toward midnight, when he was awakened by strange whisperings and stealthy sounds coming from the yard.
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