continuous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 连续的， 持续的，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：
-- His master could only calm him by keeping up a low, continuous whistle.
-- But neither Lady Helena nor Mary Grant uttered a word of complaint, though the continuous rain obliged them to stay below, where the want of air and the violence of the motion were painfully felt.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a thin, crisp, continuous patter from some-where in the heart of that crawling bank.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arrived at the church, Muishkin, under Keller's guidance, passed through the crowd of spectators, amid continuous whispering and excited exclamations.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Ajax could no longer hold his ground for the shower of darts that rained upon him; the will of Jove and the javelins of the Trojans were too much for him; the helmet that gleamed about his temples rang with the continuous clatter of the missiles that kept pouring on to it and on to the cheek-pieces that protected his face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was driven on, and other carriages came whirling by in quick succession; the Minister, the State-Projector, the Farmer-General, the Doctor, the Lawyer, the Ecclesiastic, the Grand Opera, the Comedy, the whole Fancy Ball in a bright continuous flow, came whirling by.
-- The happiness of his own chosen English home, the ne-cessity of being always actively employed, the swift changes and troubles of the time which had followed on one an-other so fast, that the events of this week annihilated the immature plans of last week, and the events of the week fol-lowing made all new again; he knew very well, that to the force of these circumstances he had yielded: not without 343disquiet, but still without continuous and accumulating re-sistance.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not think I have ever heard quite so much vile language come in a continuous stream from any man's lips before, though I have frequented eccentric company enough.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a simple pleasantness in these continuous lawns, these wide maple-shaded streets, and a joy in freedom from the peering whispers of Wheatsylvania.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the yard came a loud continuous knocking; someone seemed to be hammering 芒聙娄 He went to the window, rose on tiptoe and looked out into the yard for a long time with an air of absorbed attention.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will onlyadd, to what I have already written of my perseverance at this timeof my life, and of a patient and continuous energy which thenbegan to be matured within me, and which I know to be the strongpart of my character, if it have any strength at all, that there, onlooking back, I find the source of my success.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apparently there was to be a thunder-storm, and afterwards a cold continuous rain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was desperate fighting at New Hope Church, eleven days of continuous fighting, with every Yankeeassault bloodily repulsed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE WHELPIt was very remarkable that a young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous system of unnatural restraint, should be a hypocrite; but it was certainly the case with Tom.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a continuous roll of heavy thunder.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was not much in it as to quantity; but it made a great demand on his close and continuous attention.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to.
-- His cranial cavity is continuous with the first neck-vertebra; and in that vertebra the bottom of the spinal canal will measure ten inches across, being eight in height, and of a triangular figure with the base downwards.
-- In a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia, and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly studded oriental archipelagoes.
-- Broad on both bows, at the distance of some two or three miles, and forming a great semicircle, embracing one half of the level horizon, a continuous chain of whale-jets were up-playing and sparkling in the noon-day air.
-- murmured Starbuck gazing over the side, and following with his eyes the receding boat "canst thou yet ring boldly to that sight? lowering thy keel among ravening sharks, and followed by them, open-mouthed to the chase; and this the critical third day? For when three days flow together in one continuous intense pursuit; be sure the first is the morning, the second the noon, and the third the evening and the end of that thing be that end what it may.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fagin looked so very much in earnest, that Charley Bates, who deemed it prudent in all cases to be on the safe side, and who conceived it by no means improbable that it might be his turn to be throttled second, dropped upon his knees, and raised a loud, well-sustained, and continuous roar-- something between a mad bull and a speaking trumpet.
-- returned the girl; not speaking, but pouring out the words in one continuous and vehement scream.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a matter of fact I was worked out; the intense stress of nearly four years' continuous work left me incapable of any strength of feeling.
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