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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Which her name," said Joe, gravely, "ain't Estavisham, Pip, unless she have been rechris'ened."
-- And unless I deceive myself on a point where my interests or prepossessions are certainly not concerned, I saw that Mr. and Mrs. Pocket's children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up.
-- No; deuce a bit of a lady in the case, Mr. Pip, except one,--and she wasn't of this slender lady-like sort, and you wouldn't have caught her looking after this urn, unless there was something to drink in it."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next morning the court sat to judge him; and when all was heard, it sentenced him to die, unless he should bring the king the golden horse which could run as swiftly as the wind; and if he did this, he was to have the golden bird given him for his own.
-- Then he was brought before the king, and the king said, 'You shall never have my daughter unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window.'
-- But the people said 'No,' unless he would bestow all his money upon the rascals and buy their liberty.
-- The king ordered the man to be brought before him, and threatened with angry words that unless he could be-fore the morrow point out the thief, he himself should be looked upon as guilty and executed.
-- said the lion, 'nothing, unless you undertake to give me whatever meets you on your return home; if you agree to this, I will give you your life, and the rose too for your daughter.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They observed by my teeth, which they viewed with great exactness, that I was a carnivorous animal; yet most quadrupeds being an overmatch for me, and field mice, with some others, too nimble, they could not imag-ine how I should be able to support myself, unless I fed upon snails and other insects, which they offered, by many learned arguments, to evince that I could not possibly do.
-- But, when I spoke in that country, 186 Gulliver's Travelsit was like a man talking in the streets, to another look-ing out from the top of a steeple, unless when I was placed on a table, or held in any person's hand.'
-- They are very bad reasoners, and vehemently given to opposition, unless when they happen to be of the right opinion, which is seldom their case.
-- I have indeed observed the same disposition among most of the mathematicians I have known in Europe, although I could never discover the least analogy between the two sciences; unless those people sup-pose, that because the smallest circle has as many degrees as the largest, therefore the regulation and management of the world require no more abilities than the handling and turning of a globe; but I rather take this quality to spring from a very common infirmity of human nature, inclining us to be most curious and conceited in matters where we have least concern, and for which we are least adapted by study or nature.
-- But there is still indeed a more weighty reason, why the kings of this country have been always averse from execut-ing so terrible an action, unless upon the utmost necessity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Louisa denied Tom's participation in the offence; but her mother stopped her with the conclusive answer, 'Louisa, don't tell me, in my state of health; for unless you had been encouraged, it is morally and physically impossible that you could have done it.'
-- M'Choakumchild reported that she had a very dense head for figures; that, once possessed with a general idea of the globe, she took the smallest conceivable interest in its exact measurements; that she was extremely slow in the acquisition of dates, unless some pitiful incident happened to be connected therewith; that she would burst into tears on being required (by the mental process) immediately to name the cost of two hundred and forty-seven muslin caps at fourteen-pence halfpenny; that she was as low down, in the school, as low could be; that after eight weeks of induction into the elements of Political Economy, she had only yesterday been set right by a prattler three feet high, for returning to the question, 'What is the first principle of this science?'
-- I thought I couldn't know whether it was a prosperous nation or not, and whether I was in a thriving state or not, unless I knew who had got the money, and whether any of it was mine.
-- 'I believe it was you, unless I have had the bad luck to mistake the person in following?'
-- Am I to call my own son-in-law, Mister!Not, I believe, unless the time has arrived when, as an invalid, I am to be trampled upon by my relations.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as, unless we discover water, our hours are numbered, let us lose no time, but go ahead."
-- There was no chance that way, unless I looked to the ivy solely for support.
-- Half-naked, with tangled, matted and ragged beards, we did look supremely ill-favored; and unless the country was a bandit land, we were not likely to alarm the inhabitants!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither was ever in love with a young man unless he and she were verbal-ly very near: that is unless they were profoundly interested, TALKING to one another.
-- 'Unless you like it, of course!'
-- She knew that the kindliness indicated a lack of fear, and that these people had no respect for you unless you could frighten them a lit-tle.
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