In the Tycho Brahe craft, the astronaut-pilot (or crash-test dummy, as pictured) half-stands, half-sits-strapped in except for his or her arms.

在第谷·布拉赫号飞船中，宇航员(或者碰撞测试假人，如图)半站半坐，除了手臂外，都被皮带捆绑着。

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The building was darkened except for a single light burning in a third-storey window.

除了三楼的一扇窗户透出一丝光亮，整栋楼一片漆黑。

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The airport looks exactly like every other major modern airport in Europe, except for one big problem.

这个机场看起来和欧洲其他主要的现代化机场一模一样，除了有一个大问题。

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We could not bring in a recorder, but the courtroom is mostly quiet except for the lawyers, witnesses and judge talking.

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that, except for the principles, maybe their families maybe not, all our money can disappear in thirty days, so we have to be cognizant of that.

这意味着除了那些最重要的人，或者是他们的家人，或者不是，我们所有的钱可以在30天之内消失，所以我们必须认识到这一点。

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We've seen a boom in building in the United States that is at a record level, except for that one Korean War blip, and so I think it's a highly abnormal situation that we've been in.

所以美国出现一波建造新房的浪潮,规模空前,仅次于朝鲜战争时期,我认为这是极不正常的

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The theory, however, would be reversed: instead of only humanitarian goods being let into Iraq, everything would be free to go in except for prohibited items.

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