摘要

<正>一、用作连词。意为"而,但是,可是"等,表示语义的转折。His office is in New York,but he is often away.他的办公室在纽约,但他经常不在。There were a lot of people and much noise there.But all this was nothing to him.那里(街上)人很多,嘈杂声很大。但是这一切对他来说都无所谓。二、用作介词。意为"除……之外",大致相当于except,多和no,nothing,nobody,all,everyone,everything,anybody,none等词连用,或置于疑问词what,who,where等之后。