unless

B1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #786 ★★★★☆

conj. 除非 prep. 除...之外

发音

/ənˈlɛs/
/ʌnˈlɛs/
其它 /ʊnˈlɛs/
US /ɪnˈlɛs/
其它 /ɪnˈlɛs/

别名

unlesse unlessen

教材释义与例句

连词

除非，如果不

used to say that something will happen or be true if something else does not happen or is not true

Unless some extra money is found, the theatre will close.

要是不能找到更多资金，剧院将要关闭。

I think you should complain – unless, of course, you are happy with the way things are.

我觉得你应该发发牢骚——当然，除非你对现状很满意。

He won't go to sleep unless you tell him a story.

要是你不给他讲故事他就不睡觉。

I can't leave her unless I know she's all right.

除非我知道她没事，否则我不能离开她。

释义与例句

conj. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Except on a specified condition; if not.

    除非

    I’m leaving unless I get a pay rise.

    You can't go out unless it stops raining.

    Unless part of the staff, you are not allowed beyond this point.

  2. 2.

    If not; used with counterfactual conditionals.

    Who would know of Alexander or Caesar, or would respect the Stoics or the Peripatetics, unless they had been distinguished by the memorials of writers?

    Unless He were omnipotent, we could not be sure of His ability to bless us.

  3. 3.

    Except if; used with hypothetical conditionals.

    Q. If Lieutenant P. had given the word "Fire," would you have fired, and at what?—A. I should not have known, unless he had told me what to fire at.

    Suppose Breugel had done the whole painting with no legs. Then, titled as it is, it would be mystifying, unless someone were to say: the boy has fallen in the waters and they have closed over him, calm is restored, life goes on (as in The Israelites Crossing the Red Sea).

相关短语

precisely unless

词源

From Middle English unlesse, earlier on lesse (modern on + less), from (not) on lesse (than) (“(not) on a less compelling condition (than)”). The quality of negation in the word and the lack of stress changed on to un-.

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