This is an excerpt from a novel.

这是一部摘录。

Can you excerpt something from the newspaper?

你能从报纸上选录些东西吗?

Some excerpts from a Renaissance mass are spatchcocked into Gluck’s pallid Don Juan music.

一些文艺光时期弥撒选节被不适当地加入到了平淡无味唐璜音乐中。