【without音标】 英[wɪˈðaʊt] 美[wɪˈðaʊt]
【单词释义】 without是什么意思：
adv.没有，缺乏；在外部；在外面；缺少
prep.没有，缺乏；在外面
conj.除非，如果不
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【without形近词/近似词】
throughout prep.（表示时间）自始至终；在…期间；遍及
handout n.救济品；施舍物；印刷品；传单
【常用短语】
go without 缺少（所需之物）；没有（常有之物）
without a word 一句话也没说；一声不吭
without cease 不停地，不断地
without delay 立即；毫不迟延地
without doubt 无疑地；确实地
without effort 毫不费力
without/no question 毫无疑问
【单词例句】
◇ 'And what is the use of a book,'thought Alice,'without pictures or conversations?'
“一本书没有图画和对话有什么用呢？”爱丽丝想。
---- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1)
◇ She went and found a tall tree and climbed to its top, where she sat and span, without speaking and without laughing.
于是，她就走到一棵大树旁，爬上去坐在上面纺纱，既不说话也不笑。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ She wanted to avenge herself for not having been invited, and without greeting anyone or even looking at them she cried out with a loud voice, "In the princess's fifteenth year she shall prick herself with a spindle and fall over dead." And without saying another word she turned around and left the hall.
她对没有被邀请感到非常愤怒，她要对此进行报复，要献上她恶毒的咒语。所以她进来后就大声叫道：“国王的女儿在十五岁时会被一个纺锤弄伤，最后死去。”然后她一言不发地转过身离开了大厅。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ Merciful God blessing, an abrupt freezing rainfall made his powder wet. Luckily, the trouble was without any extension except that he crashed into a greengrocer’s making all the ripe fruits become messy jam.
仁慈的上帝保佑，一场突然降临的冻雨打湿了他的火药，使他造成的麻烦没有扩大，只是撞入一间水果店，把所有成熟的水果都压成一塌糊涂的果酱。
---- Strange Patent Applications
◇ To avoid the Customs’ punishment, they hid in a small ferry called the North Pole Seagull, sitting back to back without sleeping, showering and shaving for 3 days, and had no chance to mourn their lost luggage when landing. The hardship of this crossing was apparent.
为了避开海关的惩处，他们躲在一艘叫“北极海鸥”的渡轮里，背靠背坐着，整整3天没有睡觉、洗澡和刮胡子，上岸的时候也没有机会心痛他们丢失的行李，这次横渡的艰辛是显而易见的。
---- Immigrate to America
◇ With its teamwork, Mark used a net to drag the seal to the shallow water. Without pausing he helped it out after a simple operation and settled it in a narrow cave by the seaside.
在这只海豹的合作下，马克用一张网把它拖到浅水区，并毫不停歇给它动了一个简单的手术，帮助它解决了问题，然后将它安置在海边一个狭窄的洞里。
---- Mark and a Seal
◇ In a college accessible to him, he studied politics and literature. He always sat in the front row near the entry without any absence and, with the help of his handy laptop, he studied well by means of dictation.
他在一所接受他就读的学校里学习政治和文学，总是坐在靠近入口的前排，从不缺席。在他轻便好用的手提电脑的帮助下，他用听写的方式学习得很好。
---- Defeat Disability
◇ But without positive evidence, people suspected and rejected his view, saying the theory he put forward made no sense. Being much more strict with himself, he contributed himself to the case.
但是没有确实的证据，人们很怀疑并拒绝他的观点，大家都说他提出的理论毫无道理。他对自己要求更加严格，全身心地投入。
---- A Strange Disease
◇ Being drunk, sliding on a banana skin or whispering his own failures to nobody, he made us feel more content with our life without any verbal explanation.
喝醉酒啦，踩到香蕉皮滑倒啦，或者自言自语（低语）自己的糗事啦，他无需任何语言解释的表演总是使我们对自己的生活感到更加满意。
---- Chaplin - A Great Master of Humour
◇ "Oh, it is excellent!" replied the old minister, looking at the loom through his spectacles. "This pattern, and the colors, yes, I will tell the Emperor without delay, how very beautiful I think them."
“啊，美极了！真是美妙极了！”老大臣说。他戴着眼镜仔细地看。“多么美的花纹！多么美的色彩！是的，我将要呈报皇上说我对于这布感到非常满意。”