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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then signed to Heyward to assist the sisters into the saddles, for he seldom deigned to use the English tongue, unless urged by some motive of more than usual moment.
-- At such moments, it seemed as if a vast range of country lay buried in eternal sleep; not the least sound arising from the forest, unless it was the distant and scarcely audible rippling of a water-course.
-- It is un-necessary to dwell upon the evasive though polite manner with which the French general had eluded every attempt of Heyward to worm from him the purport of the communi-cation he had proposed making, or on the decided, though still polished message, by which he now gave his enemy to understand, that, unless he chose to receive it in person, he should not receive it at all.
-- I hold it a sin to kill the second buck afore the first is eaten, unless a march in front, or an ambush-ment, be contemplated.
-- 'Unless the shining bauble Uncas has just lifted from the ground should prove one.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this news was slightly disconcerting to me personally, because I had written from the country to Mrs. Strickland, announcing my return, and had added that unless I heard from her to the contrary, I would come on a certain day to drink a dish of tea with her.
-- "I don't see how anyone can be expected to tackle a case like this unless he knows all the details.
-- "I don't see why, unless it's folly to say the obvious."
-- "A man doesn't throw up his business and leave his wife and children at the age of forty to become a painter unless there's a woman in it.
-- I wondered what those friends of mine would say who demanded vast studios, and vowed they could not work unless all the conditions were to their liking.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We will not give them time to hatch, unless it is in the shape of an omelet!"
-- Why had Neb not returned unless hope still detained him?
-- "Captain," said Pencroft, when the engineer and the reporter had rejoined them, "Captain, you see quite well we can't get on unless we make a few guns.
-- It is useless to add that Pencroft, Herbert, and Neb, thus armed, were at the summit of their happiness, although Cyrus Harding made them promise not to fire a shot unless it was necessary.
-- "I tell you, it wants nothing unless it is " "That will come, Pencroft, that will be found," replied the engineer; "but now we must continue our voyage and push on as far as the river will carry our boat!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Justice or no justice,' said the young fellow, 'here I am and here I shall stop till such time as I think fit to go, unless you send for assistance to put me out which you won't do, I know.
-- He began by remarking that soda-water, though a good thing in the abstract, was apt to lie cold upon the stomach unless qualified with ginger, or a small infusion of brandy, which latter article he held to be preferable in all cases, saving for the one consideration of expense.
-- 'Nell will be a woman soon,' returned the other, 'and, bred in your faith, she'll forget her brother unless he shows himself sometimes.'
-- I know she's always in that condition when I'm away, thought she doesn't dare to say so, unless I lead her on and tell her she may speak freely and I won't be angry with her.
-- The dwarf watched him sharply, while he passed into the little sitting-room and locked it in an iron safe above the chimney-piece; and after musing for a short space, prepared to take his leave, observing that unless he made good haste, Mrs Quilp would certainly be in fits on his return.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She said that unless he gave her the money there would be no dinner that night, and that he would have to dine outside.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour?
-- Yet, for one thing I felt assured: unless some other age had produced its exact duplicate, the machine could not have moved in time.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!I do so wish I could see that bit!I want so much to know whether they've a fire in the winter: you never can tell, you know, unless our fire smokes, and then smoke comes up in that room too but that may be only pretence, just to make it look as if they had a fire.
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