A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
除了
Except
You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.
你知道，对我来说，做这样的事很重要，因为没有人真的认为我能做任何事，除了在海报上看起来性感和去购物。
Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions. Baptism is a necessary ordinance.
耶稣说，人若不是从水和圣灵生的，就不能进神的国。没有例外。受洗是必要的法令。
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
虽然我们的身体和皮肤是有界限的，我们可以区分外部和内部，但它们只能存在于特定的自然环境中。
I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.
我就像大多数作家一样，当某些事情发生时，会让人无法抗拒，让人着迷，让人感动，诸如此类。除了写下来，我不知道还能做些什么。
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
用狗做叙述者有其局限性，但也有其优势。限制是狗不能说话。狗没有大拇指。狗只能用手势来表达思想。
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.
成功没有秘诀，除了努力工作和获得一些我们称之为“休息”的无法定义的东西。“为了让一个作家成功，我建议做三件事——阅读、写作和等待。
What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.
当然，出现的结果是，震级假设所有的地震都是相同的，除了一个不变的尺度因子。这比我们想象的更接近事实。
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
除非全体一致，否则人类的动物是靠不住的。任何种族、任何信仰、任何国籍的全体人民的思想和行动，都将始终指向正确的方向。
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
只有包含在我们内心的真实。这就是为什么那么多人过着如此虚幻的生活。他们把外在的形象当成现实，从不允许内在的世界展现自己。
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
万物都是无常的，惟有属灵的信心能改变万物，使万物充满光明。我虽然像一个不信的人，被赶出我的家乡，却找不着一个像我这样有信心的人。
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
和时间本身?时间是一种无限延伸的媒介，它延伸到未来和过去——除了没有未来也没有过去，而是无穷无尽的括号，向任何一个方向延伸，每个括号都围绕着宇宙的单一阶段。
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
一个事实从来没有和一个奇迹结合在一起。真理蔑视奇迹的帮助。一个事实将与宇宙中的其他所有事实相吻合，这就是你如何辨别它是否是一个事实的方法。谎言只适用于另一个谎言。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
除了我们自己的思想，没有什么是绝对在我们的力量范围之内的。
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
谈话是廉价的——除非国会这么做。
Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.
除了几家小出版社外，大多数出版商都在世贸中心遗址以北。
I was never insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
我从来没有疯过，除非我的心被感动。
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. except that you're not mine.
不要在太阳落山时哭泣，因为你的眼泪不会让你看到星星。除非你不是我的。
Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
有两种球员根本不值得讨厌:一种从来不按别人说的去做，另一种除了别人告诉他的以外什么也不做。