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：
-- You don't talk to a woman unless you have ideas in common: that is you don't talk with any interest.
-- And in the same way, unless you had some emotion or sympathy in common with a woman you wouldn't sleep with her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, unless you did,' returned the jailer, 'you might depart in so many pieces that it would be difficult to get you together again.
-- said the turnkey, 'he'll never get out, unless his creditors take him by the shoulders and shove him out.'
-- Afterwards, there were tea-gardens, shrimps, ale, and other delicacies; and then they would come back hand in hand, unless she was more than usually tired, and had fallen asleep on his shoulder.
-- I don't wish it so much now, unless you should think indeed I don't wish it at all, unless I should have spoken so confusedly, that that you can scarcely understand me, which I am afraid may be the case.'
-- This gentleman, happening also to be the Plaintiff in the Tip case, referred Mr Plornish to his solicitor, and declined to treat with Mr Plornish, or even to endure his presence in the yard, unless he appeared there with a twenty-pound note: in which case only, the gentleman would augur from appearances that he meant business, and might be induced to talk to him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Not for many months, dear, unless he is sick.
-- Don't go away, please, unless you'd rather.'
-- She had cherished her anger till it grew strong and took possession of her, as evil thoughts and feelings al-ways do unless cast out at once.
-- 'Poor girls don't stand any chance, Belle says, unless they put themselves forward,' sighed Meg.
-- Tea parties didn't amount to much neither did picnics unless very well conducted.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.
-- For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.
-- Still, looking round me again, and seeing no possible chance of spending a sufferable night unless in some other person's bed, I began to think that after all I might be cherishing unwarrantable prejudices against this unknown harpooneer.
-- I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.
-- And somehow, at the time, I felt a sympathy and a sorrow for him, but for I don't know what, unless it was the cruel loss of his leg.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months: at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age.
-- It was the very place for a homeless boy, who must die in the streets unless some one helped him.
-- 'Yes,' said the Jew; 'that is, unless they should unexpectedly come across any, when they are out; and they won't neglect it, if they do, my dear, depend upon it.
-- I might have know'd, as nobody but an infernal, rich, plundering, thundering old Jew could afford to throw away any drink but water--and not that, unless he done the River Company every quarter.
-- 'Perhaps I am,' replied Sikes; 'I should think you was rather out of sorts too, unless you mean as little harm when you throw pewter pots about, as you do when you blab and--' 'Are you mad?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner.
-- 'Miss Bingley told me,' said Jane, 'that he never speaks much, unless among his intimate acquaintances.
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