continuance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 连续，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：
-- Glenarvan was afraid they would be delayed by the continuance of the hurricane, but Paganel was able to reassure him on that score, after consulting his barometer.
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：
-- They then retired within the walls, and first offering up their thanksgivings for past mercies, and peti-tioning for a continuance of the Divine favor throughout the coming night, they laid their tender forms on the fra-grant couch, and in spite of recollections and forebodings, soon sank into those slumbers which nature so imperious-ly demanded, and which were sweetened by hopes for the morrow.
-- He promised a continuance of his favors, and admonished them to be grateful.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the middle of the next day, he was at Hartfield; and he entered the room with such an agreeable smile as certified the continuance of the scheme.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no necessity for any continuance of speech, and the fact that she did add more seemed to proceed from an unconscious desire to show unconcern by making a remark, which is noticeable in the ingenuous when they are acting by stealth.
-- A meditation on the obvious inference was indulged in by all, and during its continuance each directed his vision into the ashpit, which glowed like a desert in the tropics under a vertical sun, shaping their eyes long and liny, partly because of the light, partly from the depth of the subject discussed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If a struldbrug happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore; for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence, that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife.
-- Thus they denote the folly of a servant, an omission of a child, a stone that cuts their feet, a continuance of foul or unseasonable weather, and the like, by adding to each the epithet of Yahoo.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I fear, Jupe,' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'that your continuance at the school any longer would be useless.'
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：
-- Where...Where are the snows of yesteryear?...It's what en-dures through one's life that matters; my own life matters to me, in its long continuance and development.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pray note, all this was the fruit of a disturbed mind, an impatient temper, made desper-ate, as it were, by the long continuance of my troubles, and the disappointments I had met in the wreck I had been on board of, and where I had been so near obtaining what I so earnestly longed for - somebody to speak to, and to learn some knowledge from them of the place where I was, and of the probable means of my deliverance.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A continuance in a place where everything reminded her of former delight, was exactly what suited her mind.
-- The contempt which she had, very early in their acquaintance, felt for her daughter-in-law, was very much increased by the farther knowledge of her character, which half a year's residence in her family afforded; and perhaps in spite of every consideration of politeness or maternal affection on the side of the former, the two ladies might have found it impossible to have lived together so long, had not a particular circumstance occurred to give still greater eligibility, according to the opinions of Mrs. Dashwood, to her daughters' continuance at Norland.
-- It was evident that he was unhappy; she wished it were equally evident that he still distinguished her by the same affection which once she had felt no doubt of inspiring; but hitherto the continuance of his preference seemed very uncertain; and the reservedness of his manner towards her contradicted one moment what a more animated look had intimated the preceding one.
-- Marianne had promised to be guided by her mother's opinion, and she submitted to it therefore without opposition, though it proved perfectly different from what she wished and expected, though she felt it to be entirely wrong, formed on mistaken grounds, and that by requiring her longer continuance in London it deprived her of the only possible alleviation of her wretchedness, the personal sympathy of her mother, and doomed her to such society and such scenes as must prevent her ever knowing a moment's rest.
-- The continuance of their engagement, and the means that were able to be taken for promoting its end, was all her communication; and this produced from Mrs. Jennings the following natural remark.
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