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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Early eighteenth century, unless it is a forgery.'
-- 'Unless I can help you.'
-- 'They'll find they've started in to monkey with the wrong man unless they are careful.
-- He would also be the heir to the money unless it were willed otherwise by the present owner, who can, of course, do what he likes with it.'
-- 'Then on Saturday, unless you hear to the contrary, we shall meet at the 10:30 train from Paddington.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do not ask you what your business may be, all I have to do is to announce you; and unless the secretary comes in here I cannot do that.'
-- The secretary will be out directly-that is, unless you yes, that's the rub unless you come, you must allow me to ask you you've not come to beg, have you?'
-- He immediately added that such a suggestion from him would, of course, be absurd, unless accompanied by remarks of a more pointed nature.
-- But I do hate that way of looking at things!Because some fool, or a rogue pretending to be a fool, strikes a man, that man is to be dishonoured for his whole life, unless he wipes out the disgrace with blood, or makes his assailant beg forgiveness on his knees!I think that so very absurd and tyrannical.
-- No doubt Colia is there, unless he has gone to Pavlofsk to see the Epanchins.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for the common soldiers, they were so that I could not name every single one of them though I had ten tongues, and though my voice failed not and my heart were of bronze within me, unless you, O Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, were to recount them to me.
-- I should have even killed the two Molion-es, sons of Actor, unless their real father, Neptune lord of the earthquake, had hidden them in a thick mist and borne them out of the fight.
-- These will give Hector son of Priam enough to do; fight as he may, he will find it hard to vanquish their indomitable fury, and fire the ships, unless the son of Saturn fling a firebrand upon them with his own hand.
-- Then Sleep answered, 'Juno, great queen of goddesses, daughter of mighty Saturn, I would lull any other of the gods to sleep without compunction, not even excepting the waters of Oceanus from whom all of them proceed, but I dare not go near Jove, nor send him to sleep unless he bids me.
-- Ajax on the other side exhorted his comrades saying, 'Shame on you Argives, we are now utterly undone, unless we can save ourselves by driving the enemy from our ships.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had no means of reaching the land unless I should chance to drift there.
-- Unless I would spend the night among the unknown dan-gers of the mysterious forest, I must hasten back to the enclosure.
-- I burnt both of the bodies on a pyre of brushwood; but af-ter that I saw that unless I left the island my death was only a question of time.
-- Particular-ly nauseous were the blank, expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Unless and until they drop him from the branches in sport, or kill him out of idleness, I have no fear for the man-cub.
-- The mon-keys never fight unless they are a hundred to one, and few in the jungle care for those odds.
-- These buffaloes will not charge unless they wind him, and I cannot speak their language.
-- 'I suppose it is rather awful from your way of looking at it, but if you seals will come here year after year, of course the men get to know of it, and unless you can find an island where no men ever come you will always be driven.'
-- I've found you the is-land where you'll be safe, but unless your heads are dragged off your silly necks you won't believe.
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