核心畫面
One way to picture exception: a rule draws a circle, and one thing stands just outside it. The rule still stands — that is the point of the word; it does not cancel the pattern, it marks the one case the pattern does not reach.
可以想成 exception 是規則畫了一個圈，有一個東西剛好站在圈外。規則本身沒有被推翻——這正是這個字的重點：它…更多收起
可以想成 exception 是規則畫了一個圈，有一個東西剛好站在圈外。規則本身沒有被推翻——這正是這個字的重點：它不是說通則錯了，而是標出通則沒有涵蓋到的那一個。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
exceptionnoun/əkˈsɛpʃən/
- 1
The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
- the exception of a rule
- 2
That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
- That rule is usually true, but there are a few exceptions.
- The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime.
- 3
lawAn objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
- 4
An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense.
- 5
computingengineeringmathematicsAn interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised (“thrown”) by one part of the program and handled (“caught”) by another part.
- null pointer exception
exceptionverb/əkˈsɛpʃən/
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rareinformalcomputingengineeringmathematicsTo throw an exception.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。