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[kən'tɪnjuː] or [kən'tɪnju]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) continue talking; 'I know it's hard,' he continued, 'but there is no choice'; 'carry on--pretend we are not in the room'.

(verb.) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; 'preserve the peace in the family'; 'continue the family tradition'; 'Carry on the old traditions'.

(verb.) continue a certain state, condition, or activity; 'Keep on working!'; 'We continued to work into the night'; 'Keep smiling'; 'We went on working until well past midnight'.

(verb.) exist over a prolonged period of time; 'The bad weather continued for two more weeks'.

(verb.) continue after an interruption; 'The demonstration continued after a break for lunch'.

(verb.) do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop; 'We continued our research into the cause of the illness'; 'The landlord persists in asking us to move'.

校對:斯宾塞--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

(v. i.) To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.

(v. i.) To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.

(v. t.) To unite; to connect.

(v. t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.

(v. t.) To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.

(v. t.) To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.

整理:佩吉

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. [1]. Remain, endure, last, be permanent, be durable.[2]. Abide, stay, tarry.[3]. Persist, persevere, go on, keep on, be steadfast, be constant.

v. a. Extend (in time or in space), prolong.

校對:诺艾尔

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Last, persist, endure, remain, abide, stay, persevere, proceed

ANT:Cease, fail, stop, pause, break, discontinue

布赖恩特編輯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to draw out or prolong: to extend or increase in any way: to unite without break: to persist in.—v.i. to remain in the same place or state: to last or endure: to persevere.—adjs. Contin′uable that may be continued; Contin′ual without interruption: unceasing.—adv. Contin′ually.—n. Contin′uance duration: uninterrupted succession: stay.—adjs. Contin′uant; Contin′uāte close united: (Shak.) unbroken.—ns. Continuā′tion constant succession: extension; Continuā′tion-day the same as Contango-day that on which contangoes are fixed.—adj. Contin′uātive continuing.—n. Contin′uātor one who continues or keeps up a series or succession.—adj. Contin′ued uninterrupted: unceasing: extended.—adv. Contin′uedly.—ns. Contin′uedness; Contin′uer one who continues or has the power of persevering; Continū′ity state of being continuous: uninterrupted connection.—adj. Contin′uous joined together without interruption.—adv. Contin′uously.—ns. Contin′uousness; Contin′ūum a continuous thing:—pl. Contin′ua.

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