they would have fixed the telephone yesterday except that it was a holiday.怎么翻译啊,急.句中的except that 能改成but for 为什么?
问题描述：
they would have fixed the telephone yesterday except that it was a holiday.
怎么翻译啊,急.句中的except that 能改成but for 为什么?
答
昨天要不是一个假日，他们就会已经把电话修好了。用 except that 较为通顺
答
可以，没问题
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他们应该昨天就修好了电话,除非昨天是假期.
不能改,but for后面只能跟名词或名词短语,不能跟完整的句子