except是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为prep. 除…之外v. 除外; 反对,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She knows all about lite'ature except maybe how to read.
-- "Well, except for the fact that every cherry blossom has been gone for weeks now, you're dead right."
-- His earnest feeling regarding the nasal septum was that it never hurt any patient to have part of it removed, and if the most hopeful examination could find nothing the matter with the patient's nose and throat except that he was smoking too much, still, in any case, the enforced rest after an operation was good for him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This German was moving out then, and so the fourth floor on this staircase would be untenanted except by the old woman.
-- He was wearing an old and hopelessly ragged black dress coat, with all its buttons missing except one, and that one he had buttoned, evidently clinging to this last trace of respectability.
-- There was nothing in the room except two chairs and a sofa covered with American leather, full of holes, be-fore which stood an old deal kitchen-table, unpainted and uncovered.
-- And maybe Sonia herself will be bankrupt to-day, for there is always a risk, hunting big game 芒聙娄 digging for gold 芒聙娄 then they would all be without a crust to-morrow except for my money.
-- But there seemed to be nothing, no trace, except in one place, where some thick drops of congealed blood were clinging to the frayed edge of his trousers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have understood that it was, to the last, her proudestboast, that she never had been on the water in her life, except upona bridge; and that over her tea (to which she was extremely partial)she, to the last, expressed her indignation at the impi-ety ofmariners and others, who had the presumption to go 'meandering'about the world.
-- Miss Trotwood, or Miss Betsey, as my poor mother always calledher, when she sufficiently overcame her dread of this formidablepersonage to mention her at all (which was seldom), had beenmarried to a husband younger than herself, who was veryhandsome, except in the sense of the homely adage, 'handsome is,that handsome does'- for he was strongly suspected of havingbeaten Miss Betsey, and even of having once, on a disputedquestion of supplies, made some hasty but determinedarrangements to throw her out of a two pair of stairs' window.
-- 脗路 'And I am sure we never had a word of difference respecting it, except when Mr. Copperfield objected to my threes and fives being too much like each other, or to my putting curly tails to my sevens and nines,' resumed my mother in another burst, and breaking down again.
-- Nor do I recollect that Mr. Murdstone laughed at all thatday, except at the Sheffield joke- and that, by the bye, was his own.
-- She had lost hermother before her father; and where her father's grave was no oneknew, except that it was somewhere in the depths of the sea.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Captain Weston was a general favourite; and when the chances of his military life had introduced him to Miss Churchill, of a great Yorkshire family, and Miss Churchill fell in love with him, nobody was surprized, except her brother and his wife, who had never seen him, and who were full of pride and importance, which the connexion would offend.
-- John loves Emma with a reason-able and therefore not a blind affection, and Isabella always thinks as he does; except when he is not quite frightened enough about the children.
-- But between us, I am convinced there never can be any like-ness, except in being unmarried.'
-- said Mrs. John Knight-ley. 'It is so long since I have seen her, except now and then for a moment accidentally in town!What happiness it must be to her good old grandmother and excellent aunt, when she comes to visit them!I always regret excessively on dear Emma's account that she cannot be more at Highbury; but now their daughter is married, I suppose Colonel and Mrs. Campbell will not be able to part with her at all.
-- There she was welcomed, with the utmost delight, by her father, who had been trembling for the dangers of a soli-tary drive from Vicarage Lane turning a corner which he could never bear to think of and in strange hands a mere common coachman no James; and there it seemed as if her return only were wanted to make every thing go well: for Mr. John Knightley, ashamed of his ill-humour, was now all kindness and attention; and so particularly solicitous for the comfort of her father, as to seem if not quite ready to join him in a basin of gruel perfectly sensible of its be-ing exceedingly wholesome; and the day was concluding in peace and comfort to all their little party, except herself. But her mind had never been in such perturbation; and it needed a very strong effort to appear attentive and cheer-ful till the usual hour of separating allowed her the relief of quiet reflection.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The dog took no notice, for he had arrived at an age at which all superfluous barking was cynically avoided as a waste of breath in fact, he never barked even at the sheep except to order, when it was done with an absolutely neutral countenance, as a sort of Commination-service, which, though offensive, had to be gone through once now and then to frighten the flock for their own good.
-- Gabriel then remembered that he had left the two dogs on the hill eating a dead lamb (a kind of meat he usually kept from them, except when other food ran short), and concluding that the young one had not finished his meal, he went indoors to the luxury of a bed, which latterly he had only enjoyed on Sundays.
-- He would, I know, object to my having received anything except as a loan, being a man of great respectability and high honour indeed, a nobleman by blood.
-- "Put shortly, it is not being able to think, hear, or look in any direction except one without wretchedness, nor there without torture."
-- "All our horses are too heavy for that trick except little Poppet, and what's she between two of us? If we only had that pair over the hedge we might do something."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The stranger has gradually improved in health but is very silent and appears uneasy when anyone except myself enters his cabin.
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