continual是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不断的， 连续的， 频繁的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had already been three months in prison, and although I was still weak and in continual danger of a relapse, I was obliged to travel nearly a hundred miles to the country town where the court was held.
-- I avoided explanation and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created.
-- By the quantity of provision which I had consumed, I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was amazed at the continual noise it made, and the motion of the minute-hand, which he could easily discern; for their sight is much more acute than ours: he asked the opinions of his learned men about it, which were various and remote, as the reader may well imagine without my repeating; although indeed I could not very perfectly understand them.
-- And it must be confessed, that from the great intercourse of trade and commerce between both realms, from the continual reception of exiles which is mutual among them, and from the custom, in each empire, to send 60 Gulliver's Travelstheir young nobility and richer gentry to the other, in order to polish themselves by seeing the world, and understand-ing men and manners; there are few persons of distinction, or merchants, or seamen, who dwell in the maritime parts, but what can hold conversation in both tongues; as I found some weeks after, when I went to pay my respects to the em-peror of Blefuscu, which, in the midst of great misfortunes, through the malice of my enemies, proved a very happy ad-venture to me, as I shall relate in its proper place.
-- That my health was much impaired, by the continual drudgery of entertaining the rabble every hour of the day; and that, if my master had not thought my life in danger, her majesty would not have got so cheap a bargain.
-- The occa-sion was this: the kingdom is much pestered with flies in summer; and these odious insects, each of them as big as a Dunstable lark, hardly gave me any rest while I sat at din-ner, with their continual humming and buzzing about mine ears.
-- These people are under continual disquietudes, never enjoying a minutes peace of mind; and their disturbances proceed from causes which very little affect the rest of mor-tals.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- VERY DECIDEDThe indefatigable Mrs. Sparsit, with a violent cold upon her, her voice reduced to a whisper, and her stately frame so racked by continual sneezes that it seemed in danger of dismemberment, gave chase to her patron until she found him in the metropolis; and there, majestically sweeping in upon him at his hotel in St. James's Street, exploded the combustibles with which she was charged, and blew up.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These continual falls awoke echoes of singular power and effect.
-- Hence arose numerous fissures, and continual falling in of the upper earth.
-- It was slow work, but, there being continual projections, the task was comparatively easy.
-- I have a vague and confused remembrance of continual detonations, of the shaking of the huge granitic mass, and of the raft going round like a spinning top.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Talk, talk, talk!What hell it was, the continual rattle of it!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was under a pressing and continual necessity of looking at that gentleman, which occasioned his eye-glass to get into his soup, into his wine-glass, into Mrs Meagles's plate, to hang down his back like a bell-rope, and be several times disgracefully restored to his bosom by one of the dingy men.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog in such tones he commenced reading the following hymn; but changing his manner towards the concluding stanzas, burst forth with a pealing exultation and joy "The ribs and terrors in the whale,Arched over me a dismal gloom,While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by,And lift me deepening down to doom.
-- There was nothing so very particular, perhaps, about the appearance of the elderly man I saw; he was brown and brawny, like most old seamen, and heavily rolled up in blue pilot-cloth, cut in the Quaker style; only there was a fine and almost microscopic net-work of the minutest wrinkles interlacing round his eyes, which must have arisen from his continual sailings in many hard gales, and always looking to windward; for this causes the muscles about the eyes to become pursed together.
-- But, as before hinted, for some time there was a continual fetching and carrying on board of divers odds and ends of things, both large and small.
-- I say this continual smoking must have been one cause, at least, of his peculiar disposition; for every one knows that this earthly air, whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it; and as in time of the cholera, some people go about with a camphorated handkerchief to their mouths; so, likewise, against all mortal tribulations, Stubb's tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort of disinfecting agent.
-- And what with the standing spectacle of the black terrific Ahab, and the periodical tumultuous visitations of these three savages, Dough-Boy's whole life was one continual lip-quiver.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A day or two passed before Jane had courage to speak of her feelings to Elizabeth; but at last, on Mrs. Bennet's leav-ing them together, after a longer irritation than usual about Netherfield and its master, she could not help saying: 'Oh, that my dear mother had more command over her-self!She can have no idea of the pain she gives me by her continual reflections on him.
-- She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This, however, I knew not; and therefore was under continual apprehensions for a good while, and kept always upon my guard, with all my army: for, as there were now four of us, I would have ven-tured upon a hundred of them, fairly in the open field, at any time.
-- I ordered our men to fire as before, every other man; and they took their aim so sure that they killed several of the wolves at the first volley; but there was a necessity to keep a continual firing, for they came on like devils, those behind pushing on those before.
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