except for 指不同类中除……这外,如 primefang 举例
His handwriting is perfect except for some spelling error 因书法和拼写错误不同类
再如一道题中:
Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911, Scott Joplin's ragtime opera Treemonisha was not produced until 1972, sixty-one years after its completion.