continent

continent

美 [ˈkɑntɪnənt] 　英 [ˈkɒntɪnənt]

• 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

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But even for those lucky enough to be in work, the pattern of employment varies widely across the continent.

但是即使对于那些有工作的幸运者来说，这块大陆上面的就业模式也是千差万别。

He wandered all over the continent, as the years slipped by, constantly searching for diamonds, which he never found.

年复一年，他走遍整个大陆，不断寻找钻石，可惜一直没有找到。

I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent.

我想要告诉大家在这个大陆上，出现了一股新的风潮。

One twitch of the finger is all it takes to dispatch missives to the next continent or the next cubicle at light speed.

手指一动，不管是相邻的大洲，还是相邻的办公隔间，大批的邮件都能以光速送达。

Other African leaders are watching closely, sensing that this may prove to be a test bed for the continent.

其它非洲国家的领导正在紧密关注该方案的动态，在他们看来，这也许能为整个非洲大陆起到试验的作用。

Gadhafi aimed to turn into Africa's capital, building it up as a showcase of his ambitions to be the continent's leader.

卡扎菲曾立志要把苏尔特建成整个非洲的首府，用它来展现自己成为非陆领袖的雄心。

Anybody who commits the land power of the United States on the continent of Asia ought to have his head examined.

如果谁要把美国的地面队伍调派到亚洲大陆，那他就应该查抄一下他的头脑是否正常。

Expedition scientists have discovered that Antarctica has not always been a frozen continent.

远征的科学家们发现，南极洲并不总是一个冰天雪地的大陆。

who got it in his head to sample the dark continent.

突发奇想来看看这黑暗大陆。

Their opinion may come as a bit of a surprise for some of the sub-continent's authors here at Global Voices.

他们的意见让在全球之声的其它洲的作者感到有些惊讶。

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。

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！

Africa, he argues, is a black continent, a place where blacks deserves not just a piece of pie, but most of it.

他说，非洲是黑人的地方，在这里，黑人不仅要参与管理，而且要成为它的主人。

Other dynamics are nonetheless beginning to transform the continent and its relations with the outside world.

不过，其它动态已经在开始改变这座大陆及其与外部世界的关系。

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。

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。

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。

I had envisaged that completing our first continent would be a momentous occasion but it was not to be.

我曾经设想过，我们结束第一个大洲的骑行时场面会十分隆重，但实际上并非这样。

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。

The discovery of the new continent is usually referred to Columbus.

人们通常都认为新大陆是哥伦布发现的。

Like the English social scene as a whole, it had perspectives that the Continent seemed to lack.

它和整个英国社会一样，具有一种欧洲大陆似乎所不及的深度。

The East Canary Islands block is an example of an island inlier with a morphologically well defined relation to its adjacent continent.

东加那利群岛地块是内围层的一个例子已完全确实，它在地形上与相邻的大陆有关。

The width of the continent might have spread between her and home instead of twenty-five miles of dusty road.

她跟家里相隔只有二十五哩路，却仿佛觉得隔着一个大洲一般。

Vapours from other continent arrived upon the wind.

远洲异国的水汽，乘风来到这里。

It reduced Indochina to its proper scale-a small peninsula on a major continent.

它把印度支那还原到它应有的尺度--一个大陆上的不大的半岛。

Another more important word taken over from the American continent by British housewives is "chore" .

英国家庭妇女从美洲吸收过来的再一个重要的词是chore。

Following the revolution, the peach was utilized by settlers of the heartland of the North American continent.

革命以后，桃为北美大陆中心地带的移民所利用。

We must ever maintain the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

我们必当永远维护一项原则，即唯有本洲人民自己有权决定自己的命运。

Chinese settlers helped tame our continent during the 19th century.

中国移民在十九世纪为开拓我们的大陆做出了贡献。

It takes 30 minutes for a missile to go from one continent to another.

一枚火箭只要三十分钟便可以从一洲射到另一洲。

The African continent spans the equator.

非洲大陆横跨赤道。

Here was a continent of 200 million souls.

这里是一个拥有两亿人口的大陆。

This seems to be especially true in Europe: the continent's labour markets are gummier than America's and services are more regulated.

这在欧洲似乎显得特别正确：该大陆的劳工市场要比美国的更具粘性，而且服务比美国要受更多的制约。

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。

I have time and again been asking myself if I am really prepared to leave the African continent or not.

我一在问自己，是否我已准备好离开非洲这块土地。

It is an attempt to paint a portrait of a time when the continent is plugging in to the rest of the world through mobiles and the internet.

该文试图描绘的是非洲通过移动电话和互联网与世界其它地方信息互通。

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。

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”。

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。

"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。

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。”

By far the best available was that of Sweden whose progress the whole continent had been watching with a mixture of admiration and alarm.

目前为止，可用的最好的来源来自瑞典，整个欧洲大陆都在以钦佩与警惕交织的复杂心情观察着它的进步。

You include the representative of a country organisconsumedd with a continent to which Chinan understandings p street articularly close.

您是一位来自于使中国倍感接近的国度和大洲的代表。

Late 1911, early 1912, there was a race to be the first to the South Pole: the heart of the Antarctic continent.

1911年底，1912年初，有一个看谁第一个到达南极点的赛跑，那是南极大陆的心脏。

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。

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。

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。

Their temples, roads, and dwelling places stretched across the breadth of the dark continent.

她们的神庙，道路，居所在黑暗的大陆上伸展。

Like the English social scene as a whole, it had perspectives that the Continent seemed to lack.

它和整个英国社会一样，具有一种欧洲大陆似乎所不及的深度。

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。

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。

he's heading off into the interior of the vase continent, with 5000 kilometers ahead of him, he's heading towards certain death.

它朝着这片广袤大陆的深处而去，它还有5000公里的路要走，终将难逃一死。