continent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 大陆， 洲; adj. 有节制的； 节制欲望的，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：
-- It is at Cape Froward that the American continent actually terminates, for Cape Horn is nothing but a rock sunk in the sea in latitude 52 degrees.
-- "My advice is to follow the 37th parallel from the point where it touches the American continent to where it dips into the Atlantic, without deviating from it half a degree, and possibly in some part of its course we shall fall in with the shipwrecked party."
-- Se dirigeant a terre, deux matelots et le Capitaine Grant vont essayer d'aborder,' or ‘ont aborde le continent ou ils seront,' or, ‘sont prisonniers de cruels indigenes.
-- "Clear enough," replied Glenarvan, "if the word continent can be applied to Australia, which is only an island."
-- They could now quit the American Continent without the least hesitation, and already their thoughts had flown to the Australias.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general route of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is as follows: Leaving Bombay, it passes through Salcette, crossing to the continent opposite Tannah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta.
-- Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States, like a common villain, he had traversed three quarters of the globe, so as to gain the American continent more surely; and there, after throwing the police off his track, he would quietly enjoy himself with the fortune stolen from the bank.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But ought they to establish themselves on this part of the coast, without trying to know to what continent it belonged, if it was inhabited, or if they were on the shore of a desert island?
-- Did the sea surround this unknown land, or was it connected in the west with some continent of the Pacific?
-- You understand, my friends, that before undertaking the work of installation in earnest it is not enough to have found out that this land is an island; we must, as nearly as possible, know at what distance it is situated, either from the American continent or Australia, or from the principal archipelagoes of the Pacific."
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the Amer-ican continent have an Asiatic origin.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If the nice people of Charleston feel that way, I'm sure we will all feel the same way soon," she said, for she hada deeply rooted belief that, excepting only Savannah, most of the gentle blood of the whole continent could be foundin that small seaport city, a belief shared largely by Charlestonians.
-- The width of the continent might have spread between her and home instead of twenty-five miles of dusty road.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the 17th, we came in full view of a great island, or continent (for we knew not whether;) on the south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons.
-- The whole extent of this prince's dominions reaches about six thousand miles in length, and from three to five in breadth: whence I cannot but conclude, that our geogra-phers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counter-poise the great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the north- west parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance.
-- The women of the island have abundance of vivacity: 206 Gulliver's Travelsthey, contemn their husbands, and are exceedingly fond of strangers, whereof there is always a considerable number from the continent below, attending at court, either upon affairs of the several towns and corporations, or their own particular occasions, but are much despised, because they want the same endowments.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she did not get it, for though he joined her and an-swered all her questions freely, she could only learn that he had roved about the Continent and been to Greece.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were nearly all Islanders in the Pequod, Isolatoes too, I call such, not acknowledging the common continent of men, but each Isolato living on a separate continent of his own.
-- I stand alone here upon an open sea, with two oceans and a whole continent between me and law. Aye, aye, 'tis so. Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together? And would I be a murderer, then, if" and slowly, stealthily, and half sideways looking, he placed the loaded musket's end against the door.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where I was, I yet knew not; whether on the continent or on an island; whether inhabited or not inhabited; whether in danger of wild beasts or not.
-- When I had passed the vale where my bower stood, as above, I came within view of the sea to the west, and it being a very clear day, I fairly descried land - whether an island or a continent I could not tell; but it lay very high, extending from the W. to the W.S.W.
-- It was after this some considerable time, that being upon the top of the hill at the east side of the island, from whence, as I have said, I had, in a clear day, discovered the main or continent of America, Friday, the weather being very serene, looks very earnestly towards the mainland, and, in a kind of surprise, falls a jumping and dancing, and calls out to me, for I was at some distance from him.
-- CHAPTER XVI - RESCUE OF PRISONERS FROM CANNIBALSUPON the whole, I was by this time so fixed upon my de-sign of going over with him to the continent that I told him we would go and make one as big as that, and he should go home in it.
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