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excepted

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

除外,除外的,不适用,不包括的

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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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • He then added, unhelpfully, “All English writers are the same; Walter Scott excepted, all lack a plot.”

  • The Republicans are going to oppose it to a person (well, Mark Kirk excepted, maybe).

  • No one in America starves to death, or freezes to death (freak accidents excepted).

  • The plan has flown almost totally under the radar—the odd Paul Krugman column and Economist blog post excepted.

  • Today he is claimed like no other 20th-century writer—Orwell not excepted—by both sides of the political spectrum.

  • In the depths of his heart, so hidden from the world, there seemed to be hope for the whole living creation, himself excepted.

  • Press opinions upon my symphony—Laroche not excepted—are rather cold.

  • This animal is the largest of all the apes or baboons, the orang-outang excepted.

  • This sweeping assertion was received with liberal applause by all of his hearers, the impatient customers not excepted.

  • Very few birds probably ascend to a height of two thousand feet in the air, the vulture tribe excepted.