除了雨天，我都是骑车去上班的。
除了雨天，我都是騎車去上班的。
I go to the office by bicycle except on rainy days.
除了
chú leㄔㄨˊ ㄌㄜ˙
Meaning
Meanings
- 1
apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French")
- 2
(used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
Examples
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除了雨天，我都是骑车去上班的。
除了雨天，我都是騎車去上班的。
Apart from on rainy days, I always ride my bike to work.
那儿除了我，一个人都没有。
那兒除了我，一個人都沒有。
There was no one there besides me.
除了英语，这个学校的所有学生必须多学一门外语。
除了英語，這個學校的所有學生必須多學一門外語。
Any student of this school must learn one more foreign language besides English.
除了那些我们尝试过的政府形态，民主是最差的那种了。
除了那些我們嘗試過的政府形態，民主是最差的那種了。
Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
Grammar