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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Secret uneasiness kept him in a continual state of wakefulness.
-- From this time their course was a continual ascent, as was soon evident in the strain it made on the bullocks to drag along the cumbrous wagon.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the last ten or twenty minutes, exasperated by continual interruptions, he had raised his voice, and spoken with great vehemence.
-- Others led a quiet, uneventful life, while they were subject to continual upheavals.
-- But the mother's great and continual anxiety was Aglaya.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certain it is, the place still con-tinues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She lived in such continual dread and apprehension of meeting one or other of them on the stairs or in the passages if she stirred from her grandfather's chamber, that she seldom left it, for a moment, until late at night, when the silence encouraged her to venture forth and breathe the purer air of some empty room.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime the supervisor rode on, as fast as he could, to Kitt's Hole; but his men had to dismount and grope down the dingle, leading, and sometimes supporting, their horses, and in continual fear of ambushes; so it was no great matter for surprise that when they got down to the Hole the lugger was already under way, though still close in.
-- The cold evening breeze, of which I have spoken, whistled through every chink of the rude building and sprinkled the floor with a continual rain of fine sand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The noise redoubling, sometimes producing a continual shower, I soon understood the cause.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The talk went on like a rattle of small artillery, always slightly sententious, with a sententiousness that was only emphasised by the continual crackling of a witticism, the continual spatter of verbal jest, designed to give a tone of flippancy to a stream of conversation that was all critical and general, a canal of conversation rather than a stream.
-- The doors of the public-houses were open and full of light, men passed in and out in a continual stream, everywhere men were calling out to one another, or crossing to meet one another, or standing in little gangs and circles, discussing, endlessly discussing.
-- He scarcely ever left her alone, but followed her like a shadow, he was like a doom upon her, a continual "thou shalt," "thou shalt not."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first place, he had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we told them how we placed ourselves and the horses in the middle, they blamed us exceedingly, and told us it was fifty to one but we had been all destroyed, for it was the sight of the horses which made the wolves so furious, seeing their prey, and that at other times they are really afraid of a gun; but being ex-cessively hungry, and raging on that account, the eagerness to come at the horses had made them senseless of danger, and that if we had not by the continual fire, and at last by the stratagem of the train of powder, mastered them, it had been great odds but that we had been torn to pieces; where-as, had we been content to have sat still on horseback, and fired as horsemen, they would not have taken the horses so much for their own, when men were on their backs, as oth-erwise; and withal, they told us that at last, if we had stood altogether, and left our horses, they would have been so ea-ger to have devoured them, that we might have come off safe, especially having our firearms in our hands, being so many in number.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Continual engagements at home and abroad, however, supplied all the deficiencies of nature and education; supported the good spirits of Sir John, and gave exercise to the good breeding of his wife.
-- "My dearest child," said her mother, laughing, "at this rate you must be in continual terror of MY decay; and it must seem to you a miracle that my life has been extended to the advanced age of forty."
-- But at length she was secured by the exertions of Elinor, who greatly disapproved such continual seclusion.
-- With her children they were in continual raptures, extolling their beauty, courting their notice, and humouring their whims; and such of their time as could be spared from the importunate demands which this politeness made on it, was spent in admiration of whatever her ladyship was doing, if she happened to be doing any thing, or in taking patterns of some elegant new dress, in which her appearance the day before had thrown them into unceasing delight.
-- Sir John could do no more; but he did not know that any more was required: to be together was, in his opinion, to be intimate, and while his continual schemes for their meeting were effectual, he had not a doubt of their being established friends.
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