除非

chú fēiㄔㄨˊ ㄈㄟ
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Meaning

Meanings

  1. 1

    only if (..., or otherwise, ...)

  2. 2

    only when

  3. 3

    only in the case that

  4. 4

    unless

Examples

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除非雨停了,我们才会出去。

除非雨停了,我們纔會出去。

We won't go out unless it stops raining.

除非我死了!

Over my dead body.

除非他们事先修好刹车,我才会买车子。

除非他們事先修好剎車,我纔會買車子。

I will only buy the car if they repair the brakes first.

除非你想去, 否則你不必去這個派對。

You don't have to go to the party unless you want to.

Tatoeba:句子永遠是句子,除非他們不是。

Tatoeba: Where sentences are always sentences, except when they aren't.

Grammar

Grammar using 除非

除非 A,不然 B

Chu Fei A Bu Ran B (除非 A,不然 B) · B2 · TOCFL b2

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