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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I could not help seeing them, unless I had been blind."
-- Unless unexpected and certainly improbable delays should occur, in four days Glenarvan would rejoin the DUNCAN.
-- "But for a month that has been our usual bill of fare, and when we dined we stretched ourselves full length on the ground, unless we sat astride on the trees.
-- "Well, you see, my dear Paganel, unless you have the gift of ubiquity you can't be in two places at once.
-- They had not shown the least fear, unless for their friends, who might possibly be exposed to the fury of the tempest."
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in and I hope MY dinners are good enough for her.
-- What sister would think herself at liberty to do it, unless there were something very objectionable?
-- We live in so different a part of town, all our connections are so dif-ferent, and, as you well know, we go out so little, that it is very improbable that they should meet at all, unless he re-ally comes to see her.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the rage of the wind was still great, though rather less than at first, we could not so much as hope to have the ship hold many minutes without breaking into pieces, unless the winds, by a kind of miracle, should turn immediately about.
-- This was a complete enclosure to me; for within I had room enough, and nothing could come at me from without, unless it could first mount my wall.
-- no, nor to mention the name of God, unless it was to swear by, and blaspheme it.
-- I knew I had been here now almost eighteen years, and never saw the least footsteps of human creature there before; and I might be eighteen years more as entirely concealed as I was now, if I did not discover myself to them, which I had no manner of occasion to do; it being my only business to keep myself entirely concealed where I was, unless I found a better sort of creatures than cannibals to make myself known to.
-- These considerations really put me to a pause, and to a kind of a full stop; and I began by little and little to be off my design, and to conclude I had taken wrong measures in my resolution to attack the savages; and that it was not my business to meddle with them, unless they first attacked me; and this it was my business, if possible, to prevent: but that, if I were discovered and attacked by them, I knew my duty.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties.
-- You will tell me, I know, that this may or may NOT have happened; but I will listen to no cavil, unless you can point out any other method of understanding the affair as satisfactory at this.
-- You know very well that my opinion would have no weight with you, unless it were on the side of your wishes."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unless Carrie submitted to a solemn round of industry and saw the need of hard work without longing for play, how was her coming to the city to profit them?
-- His was not the order of nature to trouble for something better, unless the better was immediately and sharply contrasted.
-- "I'd like for you to be there, if you want to come, but I don't see how you can unless he asks you."
-- Why should she taunt him this way unless she had good grounds?
-- To those who have never wavered in conscience, the predicament of the individual whose mind is less strongly constituted and who trembles in the balance between duty and desire is scarcely appreciable, unless graphically portrayed.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We fixed up a short forked stick to hang the old lantern on, because we must always light the lantern whenever we see a steamboat coming down-stream, to keep from getting run over; but we wouldn't have to light it for up-stream boats unless we see we was in what they call a 'crossing"; for the river was pretty high yet, very low banks being still a little under wa-ter; so up-bound boats didn't always run the channel, but hunted easy water.
-- There couldn't anything wake them up all over, and make them happy all over, like a dog fight unless it might be putting turpen-tine on a stray dog and setting fire to him, or tying a tin pan to his tail and see him run himself to death.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But remember that fine clothes do not make the man unless they be neat and clean."
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