• vt. 不計；把…除外
• vi. 反對
• prep. 除…之外
• conj. 除了；要不是

ex-, 向外。-cept, 拿，握，詞源同captive, accept.

except

except: [14] If you except something, you literally ‘take it out’. The verb comes from exceptus, the past participle of Latin excipere, a compound formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and capere ‘take’ (source of English capture). The use of the word as a preposition, and subsequently as a conjunction, arose from the adjectival use of the Latin past participle exceptus for ‘excepted, excluded’ (as in modern English ‘present company excepted’).
=> captive, capture, chase, heave

except (v.)

late 14c., "to receive," from Middle French excepter (12c.), from Latin exceptus, past participle of excipere "to take out, withdraw; make an exception, reserve," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + capere "to take" (see capable). Meaning "to leave out" is from 1510s. Related: Excepted; excepting. Adjectival function led to use as a preposition, conjunction (late 14c.).

1. He hadn't eaten a thing except for one forkful of salad.

除了一餐叉色拉，他什么都沒吃。

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2. She sipped the wine. Everything was hazy now, except for Nick's face.

她小口地抿著酒。現在一切都變得模糊起來，除了尼克的臉。

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3. Except for the remarkably tidy kitchen, the place was a mess.

除了廚房特別干凈外，這地方一片狼藉。

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4. I sold everything I owned except for my car and my books.

我把我所有的東西都賣掉了，只剩下汽車和書。

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5. The snow, except where it drifted, was only calf-deep.

除了吹得堆積起來的地方，雪只有小腿肚深。

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