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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I noticed nothing about her except that she had a pleasant voice.
-- "Of course, there was no explanation he could give except that he'd gone off with a woman.
-- Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance.
-- She was willing to do everything in the world for me except the one thing I wanted: to leave me alone."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cyrus Harding and Gideon Spilett, who did not know each other except by reputation, had both been carried to Richmond.
-- As to the engineer's pockets, they were entirely empty, except that of his waistcoat, which contained his watch.
-- But the engineer did not reply to the sailor except by proposing to examine the cliff more attentively, from the mouth of the river to the angle which terminated it on the north.
-- cried Pencroft, who evidently had never seen his favorite plant except in the bowl of his pipe.
-- "Of course there are vegetable giants as well as human giants, and they are no good, except to show themselves at fairs!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door was opened, but nothing came in except a soapy arm and a strong gush of tobacco.
-- 'Nothing, except that it's very early,' said Miss Sophy; 'but you are your own master, of course.'
-- But, in a little time, this closed, the light was extinguished, and all was gloomy and quiet, except when some stray footsteps sounded on the pavement, or a neighbour, out later than his wont, knocked lustily at his house-door to rouse the sleeping inmates.
-- Short Trotters however, being a compound name, inconvenient of use in friendly dialogue, the gentleman on whom it had been bestowed was known among his intimates either as 'Short,' or 'Trotters,' and was seldom accosted at full length as Short Trotters, except in formal conversations and on occasions of ceremony.
-- The lady of the caravan then bade him come up the steps likewise, but the drum proving an inconvenient table for two, they descended again, and sat upon the grass, where she handed down to them the tea-tray, the bread and butter, the knuckle of ham, and in short everything of which she had partaken herself, except the bottle which she had already embraced an opportunity of slipping into her pocket.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Woman, then, appeared to him a mysterious and charming creature; now, he looked on woman, on every woman, except nearest relations and wives of friends, as a means of gratifying now tried pleasures.
-- They were all well, except Polkan, who had gone mad the previous year.
-- Except for the noise of the river, it was perfectly quiet all around.
-- Every one agreed except the laborer, who insisted on a verdict of "Not guilty."
-- Around the table were seated the entire family, except Princess Sophia Vasilievna, who never left her own apartments.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
-- The presence of ventilating shafts and wells along the hill slopes everywhere, in fact, except along the river valley showed how universal were its ramifications.
-- They were the only tears, except my own, I ever saw in that Golden Age.
-- Hitherto, except during my night's anguish at the loss of the Time Machine, I had felt a sustaining hope of ultimate escape, but that hope was staggered by these new discoveries.
-- The sky kept very clear, except for a hazy cloud or so.
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