apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，，谁也没来 "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，，他也会法语 "in addition to English, he also knows French") · (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 chú le + A + 就是 jiù shì + B, "either A or B")

There was no one there besides me.

All you can do is trust one another.

Except for carrots, there is nothing he won't eat.

There was nothing but a desk in his room.

This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election, except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.