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 continent ['kɒntinәnt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 大陆, 洲

a. 自制的


  1. There are seven continents in the world.
    世界上有七大洲。
  2. The Antarctica is a continent centered roughly on the South Pole.
    南极洲是一片大致以南极为中心的大陆。
  3. If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island, cut off from other lands, but a continent, that joins to them.
    如果一个人对外邦人也能温和有礼，那么他就可以被称作一个“世界的公民”——他的心与五洲四海是相通的。


continent
[ noun ]
  1. one of the large landmasses of the earth

    2. <noun.object>
    there are seven continents
    pioneers had to cross the continent on foot
  2. the European mainland

    3. <noun.location>
    Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there
[ adj ]
  1. having control over urination and defecation

    2. <adj.all>
  2. abstaining from sexual intercourse

    3. <adj.all>
    celibate priests


Continent \Con"ti*nent\, a. [L. continens, -entis, prop., p. pr.
of continere to hold together, to repress: cf. F. continent.
See {Contain}.]
1. Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
[Obs.] --Shak.

2. Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or
passions; temperate; moderate.

Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his
rage goes slower. --Shak.

3. Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint
upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit
sexual intercourse; chaste.

My past life

Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,

As I am now unhappy. --Shak.

4. Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent
fever. [Obs.]

The northeast part of Asia is, if not continent with
the west side of America, yet certainly it is the
least disoined by sea of all that coast.
--Berrewood.


Continent \Con"ti*nent\, n. [L. continens, prop., a holding
together: cf. F. continent. See {Continent}, a.]
1. That which contains anything; a receptacle. [Obs.]

The smaller continent which we call a pipkin. --Bp.
Kennet.

2. 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.

Note: The continents are now usually regarded as six in
number: North America, South America, Europe, Asia,
Africa, and Australia. But other large bodies of land
are also reffered to as continents; as, the Antarctic
continent; the continent of Greenland. Europe, Asia,
and Africa are often grouped together as the Eastern
Continent, and North and South America as the Western
Continent.

{The Continent}, the main land of Europe, as distinguished
from the islands, especially from England.


Encratite \En"cra*tite\, n. [L. Encratitae, pl., fr. Gr. ?
self-disciplined; ? in + ? strength.] (Eccl. Hist.)
One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage,
wine, and animal food; -- called also {Continent}.

  1. Do Switzerland's neighbours need to worry about the country retaining its ability and will to maintain security at this crossroads of the continent? We are the only country where the people can vote on such matters.
  2. A continent frozen in hostility for so long has become a continent of revolutionary change.
  3. A continent frozen in hostility for so long has become a continent of revolutionary change.
  4. MANY of the continent's bourses took a breather yesterday from the bull run, writes Our Markets Staff. FRANKFURT took a pause from its record breaking ways with most analysts commenting that the current rally still has a long way to go.
  5. Last year, European authorities seized 15,400 pounds of cocaine, and nobody knows how much entered the continent undetected.
  6. But investments tend to be different in Eastern Europe, the continent's Appalachia.
  7. In reality, it has not advanced much in the past 16 years. All over Africa you will find boulevards, squares and even churches re-named after Roger Milla, the continent's hero of 1990.
  8. Instead of integrating into the new united Europe, Yugoslavia is sliding back into the continent's dark divided past, when Serbs and Croats fought their own nasty war within World War II.
  9. Schauble refused to give details of the foiled attacks, but he said improved cooperation between police forces on the European continent that had curbed the IRA's activities.
  10. Other European countries need to guarantee some training to every young person. Finally, Europe is the continent of trade unions.
  11. Another relief effort for disaster victims a continent away was also announced Wednesday.
  12. "The task is to reunite the West and East of our continent politically and economically, spiritually and culturally," a German delegate said.
  13. This pro-Western nation in West Africa, one of the continent's richest, is struggling with a recession that has brought unemployment, salary cuts and declining living standards.
  14. For several years, the Soviet Union has been carrying out a public relations offensive at the United Nations and has launched initiatives here as part of an international pattern of new Soviet ideas on peacemaking on almost every continent.
  15. We can see a third of a continent's worth of thunderstorms.
  16. But Pinochet said the issue of exploitation of the southern continent's potentially rich resources, including oil, was not included.
  17. Faced with overwhelming Soviet military supremacy, you will have become isolated in your own continent.
  18. In Europe, the prefix is as old as the continent. 'Euro' comes from 'Europa' (Greek: Europe), the Phoenician princess abducted by the Greek god Zeus who appeared in the form of a white bull.
  19. Let Europe forego a peace of tension for a peace of trust, one in which the peoples of the East and West can rejoice, a continent that is diverse, yet whole.
  20. A parasitic worm that causes millions of dollars' damage to livestock in the Americas has been found in North Africa and threatens that entire continent, the Middle East and southern Europe, a U.N. agency said Wednesday.
  21. Although occasional brighter spells are hinted at, it is raining in London. Can I be on the same continent?
  22. Wracked by crushing indebtedness and recession for seven years, the continent that began the 1980s in the flush of a democratic rennaissance is ending the decade weary and frustrated.
  23. Elsewhere, mergers, acquisitions and investments continue to quicken on the continent as companies prepare for the removal of most trade barriers within the European Community by the end of 1992.
  24. Launching a product more or less simultaneously across a continent, or the world, as is increasingly the trend in consumer markets, demands that companies attain a flexibility and focus that few have yet achieved.
  25. It got us through some almost seemingly impossible situations." Steger, of Ely, and his five fellow adventurers, each representing different nations, made the longest unmechanized passage across the frozen continent.
  26. To the Russians, it is a bore. But both at least make headlines in the newspapers of the rest of the continent which in turn react passionately.
  27. But taking the cue from England, anti-fur branches of animal rights groups have cropped up across the continent.
  28. As unprecedented as Steger's attempt to cross the width of Antarctica will be the attempt by Soviet pilots to land their bulky Ilyushin-76 on the hostile continent.
  29. On this continent divided by national interests, culture and language, it's rare that a common vision converges on so clear a goal.
  30. South Africa imports only a fraction of what it sells to the rest of the continent, she added.
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