unless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为conj. 除非prep. 除…外，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Outside Tellson's never by any means in it, unless called in was an odd-job-man, an occasional porter and messenger, who served as the live sign of the house.
-- He was never absent during business hours, unless upon an errand, and then he was represented by his son: a grisly urchin of twelve, who was his express image.
-- That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could endure the notion of their children laying their heads upon their pillows; in short, that there never more could be, for them or theirs, any laying of heads upon pillows at all, unless the prisoner's head was taken off.
-- I arrived at Mr. Lorry's, to his surprise, yesterday evening; we agreed that I would not present myself elsewhere until all was well, or unless I could be useful; I present myself here, to beg a little talk with your brother.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' said the thorn-bush; 'but I will not tell thee which way he took, unless thou wilt first warm me up at thy heart.
-- Only in that single house, which stood opposite that in which the learned foreigner lived, it was quite still; and yet some one lived there, for there stood flowers in the balcony they grew so well in the sun's heat!and that they could not do unless they were watered and some one must water them there must be somebody there.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a single merchant ever buys a forest without counting the trees, unless they get it given them for nothing, as you're doing now.
-- Another nobleman jocosely described how footmen in stockings had been ordered for the marshal's ball, and how now they would have to be sent back unless the new marshal would give a ball with footmen in stockings.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The warrant had not come!It was certainly on the way, but as certainly it could not now reach Hong Kong for several days; and, this being the last English territory on Mr. Fogg's route, the robber would escape, unless he could manage to detain him.
-- Still, some means must be found to cross the Atlantic on a boat, unless by balloon which would have been venturesome, besides not being capable of being put in practice.
-- You must know that I shall lose twenty thousand pounds, unless I arrive in London by a quarter before nine on the evening of the 21st of December.
-- IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT PHILEAS FOGG GAINED NOTHINGBY HIS TOUR AROUND THE WORLD, UNLESS IT WERE HAPPINESSYes; Phileas Fogg in person.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He says that knowledge is worthless unless it is proven by rows of figures.
-- Unless you're awfully rich.
-- Why, the average well-to-do man appreciated attention!He really didn't think much of his specialists unless he was operated on now and then--just a little and not very painfully.
-- Geake had one classic annual address in which, winging far above otolaryngology, he evaluated all medicine, and explained to grateful healers like Irving Watters the method of getting suitable fees: "Knowledge is the greatest thing in the medical world but it's no good whatever unless you can sell it, and to do this you must first impress your personality on the people who have the dollars.
-- Now unless you immediately turn over a new leaf, young man, I shall have to suspend you for the rest of the year and, if that doesn't do the work, I shall have to ask for your resignation.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could hear passers-by, always numerous in that part, but he could not be seen from the entrance, unless someone came in from the street, which might well happen indeed, so there was need of haste.
-- What can you want with me, then, unless you've some special object?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the second branch of the question, Iwill only remark, that unless I ran through that part of myinheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come into it yet.
-- Peggotty always went to sleep with her chin upon the handle of thebasket, her hold of which never relaxed; and I could not havebelieved unless I had heard her do it, that one defenceless womancould have snored so much.
-- I told Em'ly I adored her, and that unless she confessed she adoredme I should be reduced to the necessity of killing myself with asword.
-- 168That there was no hope of escape from it, unless the escape was myown act, I knew quite well.
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