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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
-- Old Captain Peleg, many years her chief-mate, before he commanded another vessel of his own, and now a retired seaman, and one of the principal owners of the Pequod, this old Peleg, during the term of his chief-mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and inlaid it, all over, with a quaintness both of material and device, unmatched by anything except it be Thorkill-Hake's carved buckler or bedstead.
-- As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.
-- He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing intelligible came out, except that the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth made ice in English; the eighty-fourth, eighty-fifth, and eighty-sixth, the word sir; then at last I seemed to find the Latin words rota, mutabile, ira, nec, atra.
-- Not a tree was to be seen, except a few stunted willows about as big as blackberry bushes.
-- "Well, I suppose not, except it may be a certain amount of pain in the ears," was my rather grim reply.
-- "Well, your head, except that you have one or two contusions, is exactly where it ought to be- on your shoulders," said my uncle, laughing.
-- After a long and patient examination, he said: "This fish, my dear boy, belongs to a family which has been extinct for ages, and of which no trace has ever been found on earth, except fossil remains in the Devonian strata."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.
-- But wherein was he himself any further ahead, except in a wincing sense of the ridiculousness of everything, and the paramount ridiculousness of his own position?
-- He hated seeing anyone except just the personal servants.
-- 'But could you have made money except by plays?'
-- To her it meant nothing except that she gave herself to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a rattle.
-- The other bird remained as before, except for an impatient glance at the basket.
-- Hence the smugglers habitually consorted with the debtors (who received them with open arms), except at certain constitutional moments when somebody came from some Office, to go through some form of overlooking something which neither he nor anybody else knew anything about.
-- He had now done all he sought to do for the present, except that he wished to leave her with a reliance upon him, and to have something like a promise from her that she would cherish it.
-- In short, all the business of the country went through the Circumlocution Office, except the business that never came out of it; and its name was Legion.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't remember much about it, except that I was afraid of the cellar and the dark entry, and always liked the cake and milk we had up at the top.
-- 'Each of you told what your burden was just now, except Beth.
-- But I don't see what you can do, except get a carriage, or stay here all night,' answered Jo, softly rubbing the poor ankle as she spoke.
-- Yet it seemed a lonely, lifeless sort of house, for no chil-dren frolicked on the lawn, no motherly face ever smiled at the windows, and few people went in and out, except the old gentleman and his grandson.
-- Old Mr. Laurence was the biggest one, but after he had called, said something funny or kind to each one of the girls, and talked over old times with their moth-er, nobody felt much afraid of him, except timid Beth.
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