English Dictionary

except

/ɪkˈsɛpt/

verb

(transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception. / (intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).

I like all fruits except bananas.

意味（1）

(transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).

to except to a witness or his testimony