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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser, the Governor Higginson had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour.
-- And, indeed, unless this shoal had a machine in its stomach, how could it change its position with such astonishing rapidity?
-- Thus may this puzzling phenomenon be explained, unless there be something over and above all that one has ever conjectured, seen, perceived, or experienced; which is just within the bounds of possibility."
-- "Only, Mr. Aronnax, I have no idea what o'clock it is, unless it is dinner-time."
-- "Then, unless you quite fill the Nautilus, I do not see how you can draw it down to those depths."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "No man," said Birkin, "cuts another man's throat unless he wants to cut it, and unless the other man wants it cutting.
-- "He came and cried to me, tears, you never saw so many, saying he couldn't bear it unless I went back to him.
-- Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror.
-- Unless I set my will, unless I absolve myself from the rhythm of life, fix myself and remain static, cut off from living, absolved within my own will.
-- "It brought me into line a bit and you can't live unless you do come into line somewhere."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction: a look of hatred; unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.
-- Lie down and finish out the night, since you ARE here; but, for heaven's sake!don't repeat that horrid noise: nothing could excuse it, unless you were having your throat cut!
-- She was not a gossip, I feared; unless about her own affairs, and those could hardly interest me.
-- We don't in general take to foreigners here, Mr. Lockwood, unless they take to us first.
-- The curtains were still looped up at one corner, and I resumed my station as spy; because, if Catherine had wished to return, I intended shattering their great glass panes to a million of fragments, unless they let her out.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But you won't peach unless they get the black spot on me, or unless you see that Black Dog again or a seafaring man with one leg, Jim him above all."
-- Yet, I think, none treated him better than a dog, unless it was Ben Gunn, who was still terribly afraid of his old quartermaster, or myself, who had really something to thank him for; although for that matter, I suppose, I had reason to think even worse of him than anybody else, for I had seen him meditating a fresh treachery upon the plateau.
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