He had nothing to do except talk nonsense.

除了胡说八道，他没别的事干。

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Mr. Jones refused to talk to them except in the company of his legal colleagues, whereupon the police officers departed.

琼斯先生拒绝在没有法律界同事们的陪同下和他们谈话，于是警官们离开了。

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There is no one to talk to here except you and Ben Weatherstaff.

这里除了你和本·威瑟斯塔夫没人可以说话。

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I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about except that it had something to do with the miserably weary splitting up and my feeling that everything was dead.

我刚熬过一场重大疾病，具体就不说了,只是这与我和妻子不幸的分离有些关系,我感觉万物都没有了生机。

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What I want to talk to-- Okay, except for you.

我想说的是…,好的，你除外。

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I want you to look at this picture, read the little bit about gene - control of gene expression - that's in the book, know that it's a big topic, that we're not going to talk about it except we're going to talk about some examples where control of gene expression can be exploited in order to treat diseases, for example. So I'll see you on Thursday.

所以我希望你能看一下这张图,读一些,教材里基因调控的章节,这是个很大的话题,我们不会进一步深入去探讨,但一些基因调控,用以治疗疾病的例子,我们可能还会在之后的课程中讲到,那我们周四见了

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Except for talk of real estate prices in Beijing and Shanghai, no topic has managers of private equity funds more engaged and energized than RMB funds.

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The 41 adopted children all live in the industrial sprawl surrounding Brescia but no-one, certainly not the parents, nor the judges in charge of adoptions wants to talk except to say the adoptions were handled correctly and will stand.

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You could blow all this off as trash talk, except it is nice to see a little swagger at HP.

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