"I do not believe we ought to add troops in Afghanistan unless it is indispensable in our war against al-Qaida, "If it is, then we have to do whatever it takes because al-Qaida is out to annihilate us.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

And unless we have something want to say.

除非我们还有什么事要说。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

the whole section of the essay in which he's talking about classicism and which he later calls "tradition" is meant to suggest that we really can't merge horizons effectively unless we have a very broad and extensive common ground with what we're reading.

他花了一整个部分来讨论古典主义,他后来称其为，“传统“，是想要暗示,我们不可能有效地合并视界,除非我们对于我们的所读,有着极广的认识。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The incentive in Washington is such that it's virtually impossible to cut spending unless you can go to the voters " and say "We don't have the money."

政府的机制就是这样,削减财政开支，几乎不可能,除非你有勇气对选民说,“政府没钱了“

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

We assume that unless we're dealing with Scheherazade, it has to have an end, but at the same time we might well ask ourselves, why does it have a middle? What is the function of the middle with respect to a beginning and an end?

而且我们认定一定会有结尾，除非讲故事的是那个，《天方夜谭》中的苏丹新娘，但是我们要问自己了，为什么故事一定要有经过呢？,故事的经过对于开头结尾来说起到什么作用呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选