Continent
['kɒntɪnənt] or ['kɑntɪnənt]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Chaste, temperate.
n. Main land, great tract of land.
伊娃手打
解釋/意思:
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/造句/用法:
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- 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. 威爾基·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. 雪麗.
- In my reverie, methought I saw the continent of Europe, like a wide dream-land, far away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The beginning was when he landed troops on this continent. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He spoke to me a good deal of Fred Lamb, with whom he had been travelling on the Continent. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- Some of these formations, which are represented in England by thin beds, are thousands of feet in thickness on the Continent. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- But answer me, said Baron Tuille, addressing himself to me, does the Duke of Leinster go to the continent this year? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Watson, in San Francisco, over a wire stretching 3,400 miles across the continent. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In the darkness Ursula made out the flat fields, the wet flat dreary darkness of the Continent. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Lord George gave up his post on the European continent, and was gazetted to Brazil. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Vapours from other continents arrived upon the wind, which curled and parted round him as he walked on. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The floras of distant continents would not by such means become mingled; but would remain as distinct as they now are. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Close pent-up guilt, Raise your concealing continents, and ask These dreadful summoners grace! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The nature and relative proportions of the inhabitants of oceanic islands are likewise opposed to the belief of their former continuity of continents. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Our continents seem to have been formed by a preponderance, during many oscillations of level, of the force of elevation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It was formerly believed that the same fresh-water species never existed on two continents distant from each other. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- This likewise necessarily occurs with closely allied organisms, which inhabit distinct continents or islands. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Close wedded by that mystic cord, Her continents are one. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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