Continent

(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 .

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• 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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