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• Except for certain holidays, such as christmas, americans do not usually give gifts .
  除了特殊的假日，例如圣诞节，美国人通常不赠送礼物。
• Except for the transitional elements, valency electrons are in the outermost electron shell .
  除去过渡元素外，价电子位于最外面的电子层。
• In fact, the envelope is identical in each case except for a scale factor .
  事实上，在这几种情况下，除差一个倍率外，包络是是完全相同的。
• I haven't been drinking at all here, except for a few nips taken while writing this letter .
  我在这儿没有喝过酒，除了此刻写信时啜饮几口。
• Except for a brief interlude in 1908, full employment prevailed during most of the period .
  除1908年的一个短暂时间外，这时期是充分就业的。
• the factor makes the radial functions zero at γ=0, except for s states.
  因子使得径向函数在0时为零，s态例外。
• The 5-ft driving wheels looked just like those of the ordinary locomotive except for the tyres .
  5英尺的主动轮除轮箍外，几乎与普通机车一样。
• The bay was deserted as always, except for ben, by a little pool in the rocks .
  海湾如往常一举，静悄悄的不见人影。只有贝恩蹲在小塘旁的礁石间。
• Except for differences in primary structure, these molecules are similar in all species .
  这些分子中除了初级结构不同之外，在任何物种中别无二致。
• He would, except for his guests, have fled outdoors and walked off the intoxication of food .
  假如没有客人，他早就跑到外面去散步了，免得撑出病来。