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continent
释义
- n.
- 大陆；洲；陆地；欧洲大陆（不包括英国和爱尔兰）
- adj.
- 自制的；节欲的；禁欲的
- 网络
- 大洲
展开详细释义
n.
1.欧洲大陆;〔美国〕北美洲大陆
2.大陆;陆地
3.大陆;地(方);世界
4.大洲
5.洲,远洲异国
6.月球崎岖高地
adj.
1.自制的
2.节欲的,贞洁的;禁欲的
词形变化
复数：continents
常用短语 1 组
- antarctic continent
- 南极大陆；南极洲
在例句中理解 31 句
because any story that involves things happening over a continent over thousands of years, it's got to be complicated.
因为任何一个有关于跨越大陆，穿越千年的故事一定是很复杂的。
He said the Chinese scramble for influence on the continent could lead to poor governance and environmental deterioration.
他指出，中国争夺在非洲大陆的影响力，可能会导致治理不善和环境恶化。
In time, they said, the moving ocean floor is blocked when it comes up against the edge of a continent.
同时，他们说，当扩张的海底碰到大陆的边缘就会被阻挡。
If you look closely, you can see that this woman is making a pose that forms the Australian continent.
如果你仔细观察，就能看到图上女子摆的姿势构成了澳洲大陆的形状。
The boat market was down in every continent of the world due to global recession.
纵观全球市场，北美遭受的打击最大，冲击最小的是欧洲。
However, such a move away from the continent can only go on for so long before Europe's own industrial base is harmed deeply.
但这种转移的前提是，欧洲自己的工业基地不会受到明显的伤害。
The end of the cold war did not produce a thaw throughout the continent.
冷战的结束并没有缓和整个欧洲。
So, all being well, it will only be a few more weeks before Gemma comes back to support me on the final leg of my run across the continent.
所以，一切都很好，等姬玛再回来做我穿越美洲大陆最后一程的后援，也只剩下几个星期了。
Are we content to see banks from other, especially small European, countries take deposits across the continent on the same basis as before?
我们是否乐于看到其它国家（特别是欧洲小国）的银行按照与以前一样的基准，在整个欧洲大陆吸收存款？
Africa, he argues, is a black continent, a place where blacks deserve not just a piece of pie, but most of it.
他争辩说，非洲是个黑人大陆，一个黑人应该得到更多的地方。
Some people -- I've got an English friend in China, and he said, "The continent is sleepwalking into oblivion. "
某些人，如一个我在中国的英国朋友，他说，“欧洲大陆正逐渐被人遗忘却不自知”。
To do so Chiang had to fight his way, on the ground over the North China Plain, the most strategic area on the continent.
要做到这一点，蒋介石就不得不在中国大陆上最有战略意义的华北大平原的地面上作战以打开通道。
With Italy under strain, along with Spain, European corporate bonds began to feel the pinch Monday, along with stocks across the continent.
在意大利和西班牙一道承受压力之际，欧洲公司债券、以及欧陆各国的股市周一开始感受疼痛。
The power behind the recent surge in Asia's economy may have developed from the tenets of one of that continent's earliest philosophers.
亚洲经济近来高涨的动力也许来源于那个古老大陆一个最早的哲学家的教义。
Like Archer, I also totally feel that the continent has not been a good host for my people.
正如Archer一样，我也完全觉得这个大陆对我的人民来说并不是一个好的主人。
In the space of a year Sacagawea had given birth, found her kin, and walked halfway across a continent.
在一年内，莎卡嘉薇亚生了孩子，找到了亲人，也踏穿了小半个州。
Even if Columbus had not discovered the continent of America, somebody else might have discovered it.
即使哥伦布没有发现美洲大陆，别人也会发现的。
And I believed that the Brussels-based elite was a "new class" that had confused its own interests with those of the continent of Europe.
我认为，以布鲁塞尔为总部的精英们，是一个把自身利益与欧洲大陆利益混为一谈的“新阶层”。
He wanted to leave the entire continent far behind, for Europe or America, where life was rumored to be better.
他必须完全离开这个大陆，远远离开，去欧洲或者美国，据谣传那里生活能好一点。
In London, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Senator Kennedy was admired around the world and he would be mourned on every continent.
在伦敦，英国总理戈登。布朗说，肯尼迪参议员受到全世界的尊敬，全世界都为他的去世而哀痛。
It is hard to think that this remote and tranquil spot could have caused such a continent-sized ruckus.
很难想象这个偏远和宁静的地方可以引起影响全大陆的一场骚动。
"For whatever reason, they were still hanging out on the Antarctic continent, " Case said in a statement.
“无论是什么原因，它们确实一直在南极大陆上生活，”凯斯在一份声明中说。
Right when Olivia despairs, the shark shouts out loud as if he found a new continent. They both look towards their right side.
就在奥莉薇灰心之馀，鲨鱼先生像发现新大陆一样惊呼，他俩朝右方看去！
Scottish engineers brought crates of it up the Congo and Zambezi rivers decades before Coca-Cola set foot on the continent.
早在可口可乐进驻非洲的几十年前，苏格兰工程师就带着成箱的尊尼获加来到刚果和赞比西河。
South Africa, the continent'seconomic powerhouse, is no longer as dominant as it once was in terms of mobile phone usage.
按照手机使用量，大陆的经济强国南非已经不再像以前那样是最重要的。
In a speech earlier this week, President Putin said the anti-missile plan could turn the European continent into a "powder keg. "
在本周早前发表的一项演说中，普京总统称反导弹计划将把欧洲大陆变成一个“火药桶。”
Some of you may have seen the oped that Ambassador Ron Kirk wrote and was placed in newspapers here in Kenya and across the continent.
你们中有人或许读过罗恩•柯克大使的专题文章，该文已刊登在肯尼亚及非洲大陆各地的报纸上。
Get ready to question witnesses, search for evidence and get information from other agents as you chase crooks across the continent.
做好询问证人，搜索证物的准备并且在你横穿大陆追踪骗子的时候从其它代理那里获取信息。
of Europe has meant that Austria has always been a junction for communications between the continent's main economic and cultural centres.
奥地利处于欧洲心脏的地位意味着它历来是该大陆各大经济中心和文化中心的联络枢纽。
We got to talking and I learned more about his country and the continent of Africa in 30 minutes than I ever knew before then.
我们短短的三十分钟交谈让我了解了他的家乡和非洲的情况，比我以前知道的要多很多。
the continents of Asia and Africa
亚洲及非洲大陆