Usage examples of "Except" in English with translation to Spanish

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Translations: all61 excepto33 menos11 salvo8 other translations9

Except for Tom, the family was all watching TV in silence. Toda la familia estaba viendo la televisión en silencio con excepción de Tom.

He has few friends here except you. Él tiene pocos amigos aquí aparte de ti.

I would go except for my headache. Iría si no fuera por mi dolor de cabeza.

We had no choice except to put up with it. No nos quedó más remedio que soportarlo.

I would buy this watch, except it's too expensive. Compraría este reloj, pero es demasiado caro.

Mathematicians are poets, except that they have to prove what their fantasy creates. Los matemáticos son poetas, sólo que tienen que demostrar lo que su imaginación crea.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried. La democracia es la peor forma de gobierno, con excepción de todas las otras que se ha probado.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. En el mundo hay gente tan hambrienta que Dios no se les puede aparecer más que en forma de pan.

The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest— Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. "Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival." Darwinism: That survivors survive. Los más aptos sobreviven. ¿Qué quiere decir "los más aptos"? Ni los más fuertes ni los más inteligentes; la debilidad y la estupidez sobreviven por todas partes. No hay una manera de determinar la aptitud aparte de que una cosa sobreviva. La "aptitud" es por lo tanto otra forma de decir "supervivencia". Darwinismo: Que los supervivientes sobrevivan.

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