| 词组 | but |
| 释义 | but You use but to introduce something which contrasts with what you have just said. ◊ used to link clauses But is usually used to link clauses. It was a long walk but it was worth it. I try and see it their way, but I can't. You do not normally put but at the beginning of a sentence, but you can do so when you are replying to someone, or writing in a conversational style. 'Somebody wants you on the telephone.' ---'But nobody knows I'm here.' I always thought that. But then I'm probably wrong. ◊ used to link adjectives or adverbs You can also use but to link adjectives or adverbs which contrast with each other. ...a small but comfortable hotel. We are poor but happy. Quickly but silently she darted out of the cell. ◊ used with negative words to mean 'only' But is sometimes used after negative words such as 'nothing', 'no-one', 'nowhere', or 'none'. A negative word followed by but means 'only'. For example, 'We have nothing but carrots' means 'We only have carrots'. I've got nothing but idle visions. Like me, she speaks in nothing but precise scientific terms. I heard no-one but his uncles. ◊ used to mean 'except' But is also used after 'all' and after words beginning with 'every-' or 'any-'. When but is used after one of these words, it means 'except'. For example, 'He enjoyed everything but maths' means 'He enjoyed everything except maths'. Thomas Hardy spent all but a few years in his native Dorset. He ate everything but the beetroot. There would be no time for anything but work. Could anyone but Balmain have done it? ◊ 'but for' But for is sometimes used to introduce the only factor that prevents something from happening. This use only occurs in writing. The figure would have been higher but for delays in the delivery of the planes. ◊ 'but one' But is also used in the phrases last but one and next but one. If you say that something is the last but one in a series, you mean that it is the one before the final one. It'd be the last job but one. This is what you were asked to do in the last but one quiz. If you say that something is the next but one in a series, you mean that it is the one after the next one. When a line ends in a word like 'plum', we repeat the syllable in the next line but one. |
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