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except

/ik-sept/US // ɪkˈsɛpt //UK // (ɪkˈsɛpt) //

不包括,除外,除去,除开

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Definitions

prep.介词 preposition
  1. 1
    • : with the exclusion of; excluding; save; but: They were all there except me.
conj.连词 conjunction
  1. 1
    • : only; with the exception: parallel cases except that one is younger than the other.
    • : otherwise than; but: well fortified except here.
    • : Archaic. unless.

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Examples

  • Except the Braves did not win 14 straight pennants (they did win 14 straight division titles), and Smoltz is a also Republican.

  • I always wanted to have a career like his—except for the stopping work thing.

  • In fact, Mexico buys and sells more US goods than any other country on the planet except for Canada.

  • Except, Nomadness currently has 3,000 pending membership requests.

  • Author J.K. Rowling says all religions are present at her beloved wizard school—except Wiccans.

  • In fact, except for Ramona's help, it would have been a question whether even Alessandro could have made Baba work in harness.

  • I haven't much time for seeing any one, except my patients, and the people I meet in society.

  • The patriarchal decree of the government was a good deal of a joke on the plains, anyway—except when you were caught defying it!

  • The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

  • Who he could not make out, except that it was a Kirton: and it prayed him to hasten down immediately.