Continent
['kɒntɪnənt] or ['kɑntɪnənt]
解释:
(noun.) the European mainland; 'Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there'.
(noun.) one of the large landmasses of the earth; 'there are seven continents'; 'pioneers had to cross the continent on foot'.
(adj.) having control over urination and defecation .
手打:莫林--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
(a.) Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
(a.) Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
(a.) Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
(a.) That which contains anything; a receptacle.
(a.) One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.
阿琳整理
同义词及近义词：
a. Chaste, temperate.
n. Main land, great tract of land.
伊娃手打
解释:
n. a large extent of land not broken up by seas: the mainland of Europe: one of the great divisions of the land surface of the globe.—adj. restraining the indulgence of pleasure esp. sexual: temperate: virtuous.—ns. Con′tinence Con′tinency the restraint imposed by a person upon his desires and passions: self-restraint in sexual indulgence often absolute: chastity.—adj. Continent′al characteristic of a continent as of climate &c.: pertaining to the European continent or to the colonies of North America at the period of independence.—n. Continent′alism anything peculiar to the usage of the Continent.—adv. Con′tinently.—Continental system the name given to Napoleon's plan for shutting out England from all commercial connection with Europe.
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例句:
- Of the numerous other telegraph instruments that have been invented since 1837, that of Mr. Morse is in most general use, especially on the Continent and in America. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- In effect, the voyage of the voice across the continent is instantaneous; if its speed should be accurately measured, a fifteenth of a second would probably be nearly exact. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Some of these he has left on the Continent, but he has brought with him to this house a cockatoo, two canary-birds, and a whole family of white mice. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Mr. Moore began to tell us about the Continent, the war, and Bonaparte--subjects we were both fond of listening to. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- In my reverie, methought I saw the continent of Europe, like a wide dream-land, far away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I suspect some imprudence of Mr. Franklin's on the Continent--with a woman or a debt at the bottom of it--had followed him to England. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The beginning was when he landed troops on this continent. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Inquiring after him at night, Mr Flintwinch found, with surprise, that he had paid his bill and gone back to the Continent by way of Calais. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- He spoke to me a good deal of Fred Lamb, with whom he had been travelling on the Continent. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Had Dom Pedro lived to see the Panama-Pacific Exposition he might have listened to Professor Bell talking not merely from the other end of a room, but from the other side of a continent. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Some of these formations, which are represented in England by thin beds, are thousands of feet in thickness on the Continent. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- But answer me, said Baron Tuille, addressing himself to me, does the Duke of Leinster go to the continent this year? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Watson, in San Francisco, over a wire stretching 3,400 miles across the continent. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In the darkness Ursula made out the flat fields, the wet flat dreary darkness of the Continent. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Lord George gave up his post on the European continent, and was gazetted to Brazil. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- We have felt the fierce play of volcanic effort, lifting new continents of opportunity from the infertile sea, without any devastation of pre-existing fields of human toil and harvest. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Vapours from other continents arrived upon the wind, which curled and parted round him as he walked on. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The floras of distant continents would not by such means become mingled; but would remain as distinct as they now are. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Close pent-up guilt, Raise your concealing continents, and ask These dreadful summoners grace! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The nature and relative proportions of the inhabitants of oceanic islands are likewise opposed to the belief of their former continuity of continents. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Our continents seem to have been formed by a preponderance, during many oscillations of level, of the force of elevation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- It was formerly believed that the same fresh-water species never existed on two continents distant from each other. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- This likewise necessarily occurs with closely allied organisms, which inhabit distinct continents or islands. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Close wedded by that mystic cord, Her continents are one. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
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