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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then this new island will be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand and New Caledonia, and from thence to the Marquesas.
-- I tried to speak, but Captain Nemo stopped me by a gesture, and, picking up a piece of chalk-stone, advanced to a rock of black basalt, and traced the one word:ATLANTISWhat a light shot through my mind!Atlantis!the Atlantis of Plato, that continent denied by Origen and Humbolt, who placed its disappearance amongst the legendary tales.
-- If a continent lies before the pole, it must stop before the continent; but if, on the contrary, the pole is washed by open sea, it will go even to the pole."
-- The frozen poles of the earth do not coincide, either in the southern or in the northern regions; and, until it is proved to the contrary, we may suppose either a continent or an ocean free from ice at these two points of the globe."
-- The vegetation of this desolate continent seemed to me much restricted.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a summary of all the aspects which a continent presents, and I should not be surprised if it was a continent formerly."
-- "What!a continent in the middle of the Pacific?"
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