besides / except / except for / but

1. besides 意为“除…之外(还有)”， 指在整体中加入一部分，表示 一种累加关系，有“加上”之意

2. except 意为“除…之外(没有…)”， 着重强调在同类人或物中除去一个或几个人或物，表示一种排除关系，有“减去”之意

3. except for 意为“除...之外”， 表示对整体主要部分的肯定和对局部的否定，起部分修正作用

4. but 意为“除...之外”， 和except的用法基本相同，但着重强调整句的内容，习惯上用于no，nothing，anything等词之后

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1·We work every day except Sunday.

我们除星期天外每天都工作。《牛津词典》

2·They all came except Matt.

除马特外他们都来了。《牛津词典》

3·I like all sports except football.

除足球外我喜欢所有的运动。《牛津词典》

4·I had nothing on except for my socks.

我除了短袜什么都没穿。《牛津词典》

5·The room was silent except for the TV.

除了电视的声音，那房间里寂静无声。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

6·The walls were bare except for a clock.

墙上除了一只挂钟什么也没有。《牛津词典》

7·The room was silent except for her sobbing.

房间里除了她的啜泣声一片寂静。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

8·Our dresses were the same except mine was red.

我们的连衣裙是一样的，只是我的那件是红色。《牛津词典》

9·There is nothing we can do except dig in and wait.

我们除了耐心等待别无他法。《牛津词典》

10·Except for traffic noise the night passed peacefully.

除了交通噪音，那夜安宁地过去了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

除了

1·There is nothing we can do except dig in and wait.

我们除了耐心等待别无他法。《牛津词典》

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

除了被风吹积起来的地方外，积雪只深及小腿。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·We don't do much in the evenings except watch television.

我们在晚上除了看电视不怎么干别的事。《牛津词典》

4·There was no mail except the usual junk addressed to the occupant.

除了寄给住户的常见的垃圾邮件之外，没有其他邮件。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·There was no post except the usual junk addressed to the occupant.

除了寄给住户的常见的垃圾邮件之外，没有其他邮件。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

除非

1·My master ordered me not to deliver the message except in private.

主人命令我不能传送信息，除非在私下里。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·A deal is a deal—except, apparently, when Entergy is involved.

已经说定的交易就不能反悔——当然，除非 Entergy 公司参与其中。

3·She's flying over the ocean, except she's really a piece of spaghetti.

她正飞过海洋，除非她确实是根意大利面条。

4·Another person cannot annoy you or irritate you except you permit him or her to.

其他人不能困扰或激怒你，除非你允许他或她这么做。

5·Dates given for the migrations should nevertheless be treated with caution, except where supported by hard archaeological evidence.

除非有确凿的考古证据支持，否则我们应谨慎对待给出的迁徙日期。

只是

1·Our dresses were the same except mine was red.

我们的连衣裙是一样的，只是我的那件是红色。《牛津词典》

2·I didn't tell him anything except that I needed the money.

我什么都没告诉他，只是说我需要钱。《牛津词典》

3·They didn't have to do anything except sit back and enjoy life.

他们不必做任何事情，只是在一旁闲着，享受生活。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·He was his old self again, except for the deep furrows that marked the corners of his mouth.

他又是他的老样子了，只是多了些深深的刻在他的嘴角的皱纹。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·I'm fine; except I have a question about my paycheck.

我很好，只是我有一个关于我薪水的问题。

除外

1·They are banned from launching any flights except to transport people.

他们被禁止飞行任何航班，运送人除外。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Like most amphibians these begin life in a juvenile tadpole state, then metamorphose into the adult form — except for one species, the axolotl, which famously lives its entire life as a juvenile.

像大多数的两栖动物一样，它们从幼年的“蝌蚪”状态蜕变成成年的形式——蝾螈这个物种除外，众所周知，它一生都处于幼年状态。

3·Also, the Afghan culinary tradition is very tolerant in replacing meat in pilaf. You can change lamb in the meal with every kind of meat, except pork.

并且，在阿富汗的厨房传统中对于肉饭里肉类的更换是很宽容的，你可以把羊肉换成其它任何一种肉，猪肉除外。

4·The tiny minority of Indians to whom this provision applies enjoy better protection than any of their counterparts in the rich OECD, except the Czechs and the Portuguese.

这个条款适用于极少数印度劳动者，他们比那些富有的经合组织国家(捷克和葡萄牙除外)的劳动者享有更好的保护。

5·If you apply the use case modeling technique described in this article, use cases (except Consumer use cases) will correspond to services in the same way.

如果您应用本文中描述的用例建模技术，用例(使用者用例除外)将以相同的方式与服务对应。

以外

1·Delete all except the first one.

删除第一个属性以外所有的属性。

2·Scheduled TV will go away for everything except live events like breaking news, sports, and award shows.

预定电视将离开以外的所有生活事件如突发新闻，体育，和节目奖。

3·Also, special attention is needed on queries that retrieve all values except the default ones by using comparison constraints.

还要特别注意使用比较约束检索默认值以外的所有数据的查询。

4·None of their scheming would count as more than two old men's efforts to cling to their jobs, except that shareholders everywhere also have a stake in this fight.

除了在这场争夺中各地的股东们以外，他们在工作上的努力决不比他们的计划要少。

5·The Juniper UTM is designed to allow all traffic except for that defined by the administrator as being a threat.

设备允许除管理员定义为威胁以外的所有流量通过。

之外

1·I like all seasons except for summer.

我喜欢夏天之外的所有季节。

2·The 1.0 processor simply ignores all children except the XSL: fallback elements and executes those in order.

处理程序将忽略xsl： fallback之外的所有子元素，并按照顺序执行这些指令。

3·Advertising campaigns from the new centre are to be used in all markets except China.

新营销中心的广告活动将在中国之外的所有市场开展。

4·Except Germany and France, German Company has sold aluminium doors for many years, for in these markets there have been not competitions with the existing customers.

在德国和法国之外，德国公司销售了多年的铝门，因为在这些市场与现有客户没有竞争。

5·As often as not, when college students have questions after class, their teachers are not readily available except during office hours.

大学生课后有问题时，往往在办公时间之外不容易找到老师。

除非是

1·Half of the work in Listing 3 is in the POJO itself, and therefore cannot be reused - except by the traditions of cut and paste programming.

清单3中的半数工作都是在POJO本身中完成的，因此无法被重用—除非是通过传统的“复制粘贴”编程方法。

2·In any case, a policy of containment risks backfiring, except against an unambiguously hostile China.

除非是在对抗具有清晰敌意的中国，在其他任何时候，这种遏制政策将会引发后院起火的风险。

3·From a macroeconomic viewpoint, this argument was rather implausible, except in the extremely long term, for China's economy is already three times the size of India's.

从宏观经济学的观点来看，这种看法令人很难信服，除非是在极长的时间内，因为中国的经济规模已是印度的3倍。

4·We believe most people will appreciate it rather than to use it, except in an emergency.

我们相信大多数人会喜欢它，而不是使用它，除非是在紧急情况下。

5·The general theme here is that you should not try to take control away from the visitor except under special circumstances.

这里我主要是想说明：不要疏于控制网站的访问者，除非是在特殊的情况下。

除开

1·In a market where buyers are unashamedly experimental, brands have little value so far, except in the luxury segment.

在一个买家缺乏品牌意识的市场上，品牌在目前看来并无多少价值，除开高档车领域。

2·Can you speak another foreign language except English?

除开英语，你还能说另一种外语吗？

3·It is a vale whose acquaintance is best made by viewing it from the summits of the hills that surround it - except perhaps during the droughts of summer.

从环绕在谷地周围的山峦的顶上往下看，这个山谷可以看得最清楚——不过也许夏天的干旱天气要除开不算。

4·The room is empty except for some chairs.

屋子里除开一点儿儿座椅空荡荡。

5·Except the above mentioned food, there are also fish and meat dishes in the dinner. it might be the most sumptuous dinner in the whole year.

除开这几样，除夕夜饭还要有鱼，有肉，也差未几是一年中最丰厚的。

若不是

1·We would have come straight here, except our flight got in too late.

若不是我们的航班到得太晚，我们应该直接到这里了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

若不是万军之耶和华给我们稍留馀种，我们早以像所多玛，蛾摩拉的样子了。

3·She would have left her husband except for the children .

若不是为了孩子，她早就离开她丈夫了。

(1)except for除了…以外；要不是由于

(1)except as除…之外