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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet this man was dressed in coarse gray, too, and had a great iron on his leg, and was lame, and hoarse, and cold, and was everything that the other man was; except that he had not the same face, and had a flat broad-brimmed low-crowned felt hat on.
-- The sheep stopped in their eating and looked timidly at us; and the cattle, their heads turned from the wind and sleet, stared angrily as if they held us responsible for both annoyances; but, except these things, and the shudder of the dying day in every blade of grass, there was no break in the bleak stillness of the marshes.
-- My convict never looked at me, except that once.
-- No one seemed surprised to see him, or interested in seeing him, or glad to see him, or sorry to see him, or spoke a word, except that somebody in the boat growled as if to dogs, "Give way, you!"
-- I could see nothing of the room except the shining of the fire in the window-glass, but I stiffened in all my joints with the consciousness that I was under close inspection.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard a confused noise about me; but in the pos-ture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.
-- In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the army went to the door of the great council-chamber, and two of them be-ing admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above-mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a propor-tionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:- for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in his wars at their own expense.
-- I took up the two officers in my hands, put them first into my coat-pockets, and then into every other pocket about me, except my two fobs, and another secret pocket, which I had no mind should be searched, wherein I had some little nec-essaries that were of no consequence to any but myself.
-- I had sent so many memorials and petitions for my lib-erty, that his majesty at length mentioned the matter, first in the cabinet, and then in a full council; where it was op-posed by none, except Skyresh Bolgolam, who was pleased, without any provocation, to be my mortal enemy.
-- {2} Although we usually call reward and punishment the two hinges upon which all government turns, yet I could never observe this maxim to be put in practice by any nation except that of Lilliput.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I call her probably the very worst woman that ever lived in the world, except my drunken grandmother.
-- I, hate it altogether, and I hate everybody except you,' said the unnatural young Thomas Gradgrind in the hair-cutting chamber at twilight.
-- 'Except that it is a fire,' said Tom, 'it looks to me as stupid and blank as everything else looks.
-- All this time, as if a spell were on him, he was motionless and powerless, except to watch her.
-- Except one, which was apart from his necessary progress through the mill.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little alteration, except the growth of our dear children, has taken place since you left us.
-- Did any one indeed exist, except I, the creator, who would believe, unless his senses convinced him, in the existence of the living monument of presump-tion and rash ignorance which I had let loose upon the world?
-- This also was my doing!And my father's woe, and the desolation of that late so smiling home all was the work of my thrice-ac-cursed hands!Ye weep, unhappy ones, but these are not your last tears!Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenanc-es, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
-- I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly if I except some bat, or the frogs, whose harsh and interrupted croaking was heard only when I approached the shore of-ten, I say, I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forev-er.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The officers were elected by the members, for no one in the County had had any military experience except a fewveterans of the Mexican and Seminole wars and, besides, the Troop would have scorned a veteran as a leader if theyhad not personally liked him and trusted him.
-- It was time for Gerald's return and, if she expected to see him alone, there was nothing for her to do except meethim where the driveway entered the road.
-- But the nexttime came and went, and the result was nothing nothing except that the fever possessing her rose higher and hotter.
-- "There's nobody in the County sits a horse better than Ashley," said Scarlett, furious at the slur of effeminacyflung on Ashley, "nobody except maybe his father.
-- Nor had she ever seen her sit down without a bitof needlework in her hands, except at mealtime, while attending the sick or while working at the bookkeeping of theplantation.
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