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单词 continuous
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continuous
(kəntɪnjuəs )
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2
A continuous process or event continues for a period of time without stopping.
Residents report that they heard continuous gunfire.
...all employees who had a record of five years' continuous employment with the firm.
There is a continuous stream of phone calls.
Synonyms: constant, continued, extended, prolonged  
continuously adverb [usually ADVERB with verb] B2
The civil war has raged almost continuously for ten years.
It is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in America.
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2
A continuous line or surface has no gaps or holes in it.
...a continuous line of boats.
...the continuous frieze of sculpted figures.
3. adjective B2
In English grammar, continuous verb groups are formed using the auxiliary 'be' and the present participle of a verb, as in 'I'm feeling a bit tired' and 'She had been watching them for some time'. Continuous verb groups are used especially when you are focusing on a particular moment. Compare simple.
continual
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continuous communication
It means we can have continuous communication with each other without needing to be physically present, and we do.
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The specifications focus on the continuous communication of data.
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Entrepreneurship and venture seeking requires continuous communication between partners.
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As well as allowing continuous communication with ground stations, a geosynchronous orbit also allows a larger portion of the sky to be viewed continuously.
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Later he became the first person to achieve ship-to-ship wireless communications and demonstrated continuous communication with another vessel up to three miles away.
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continuous coverage
Cameras will provide unprecedented continuous coverage of terrain.
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To qualify, they must have at least 18 months of prior continuous coverage.
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If such condition had been diagnosed before purchasing insurance, insurance companies are required to cover it after patient has one year of continuous coverage.
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continuous cycle
Trees absorb the gas as they grow, and the new forests would be cut down and replanted in a continuous cycle.
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She grimaces at the routine followed by so many of focusing totally on the sport and living a continuous cycle of airports, hotel rooms, practice courts and self-analysis.
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The last scene shows the steward explaining the rules to the next set of strangers, implying a continuous cycle.
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The two gates in the temple are believed to represent the continuous cycle of entering into life and getting out of it.
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Also, the center argues that prizes do not create incentives to drive continuous cycle of advances and improvements because prizes are finite and limited.
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continuous decline
As the graph shows, the shares have been in continuous decline since the start of last year.
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The manufacturing industry, which had experienced a period of uninterrupted growth until the mid-1970s, began a process of continuous decline.
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Also, the continuous decline observed in the national poverty levels are being determined largely on the basis of urban cities.
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Voter turnout in parliamentary elections saw a continuous decline since the 1970s, down to an all-time low of 42.2% in 1995.
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The industry sector was the worst performing sector of the regional economy with a continuous decline from 2001-2003.
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continuous dialogue
Hopefully, every possible avenue will be provided to facilitate a continuous dialogue between the electorate and the government.
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I have a continuous dialogue going with my girlfriends.
The Sun
It then als interacts vividly with the specific light dynamic of the surrounding space creating a form of a continuous dialogue.
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We are committed to these principles and to furthering them through continuous dialogue.
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This emphasis on the phonetic bases of change encourages a continuous dialogue between experimental phonetics and historical phonology.
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continuous employment
You will also be unable to claim if you were not in continuous employment for at least six months before being made redundant.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
For example, you gain the right not to be unfairly dismissed after being in continuous employment for two years.
The Sun (2015)
As it is we have jointly clocked up more than 100 years of continuous employment in a highly competitive industry.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
continuous exercise
Spending 40 minutes in the gym doing continuous exercise dropped their blood pressure by the same amount, but only for seven hours.
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Moderate and continuous exercise over a long period of time, for example, burns up more calories than violent exercise.
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But delivering the strategy will require from ministers a remorseless attention to detail and a continuous exercise of political will to overcome the many obstacles.
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continuous feedback
Of the companies abandoning traditional reviews, most are encouraging 'continuous feedback' so that problems are not left to fester until the next appraisal.
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The staff give a formative assessment from the reviews and a summative assessment at the end of the academic year, with continuous feedback from tutorials.
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If fully activated, this control will ultimately produce a continuous feedback loop of pure noise.
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Agile processes fundamentally incorporate iteration and the continuous feedback that it provides to successively refine and deliver a software system.
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This approach integrates three elements: students (1) learn theoretical frameworks, and (2) apply them to real-world situations, while (3) receiving continuous feedback from experts.
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continuous flow
What are the advantages of continuous flow production?
Joanna Blythman Bad Food Britain (2006)
Such an effect of the temperature on the reductive decolourisation of azo dye was also verified in continuous flow experiments.
André Bezerra dos Santos, Francisco Javier Cervantes, Jules Bernardus van Lier 2007, 'Impacto dos mediadores redox na remoção de cor de corantes azo e antraquinônico por lodo granular anaeróbio sob condições mesofílicas e termofílicas Impact of redox mediators on colour removal of azo and anthraquinone dyes by anaerobic granular sludge under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions', Engenharia Sanitaria e Ambiental
Selected recent patents that disclose scale-up methodologies for continuous flow nitration are also briefly reviewed.
Amol A. Kulkarni 2014, 'Continuous flow nitration in miniaturized devices', Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
continuous growth
Continuous growth and plenty in a globalised world seemed assured.
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This reverses a decade of almost continuous growth in van traffic levels.
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We are looking for established entrepreneurs whose companies have a turnover of at least 2m and at least two years' continuous growth in profits and sales.
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On both the previous two occasions, the election was held against a backdrop of long periods of continuous growth and, hence, a time of plenty for public spending.
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Years into the 'miracle' of low inflation and continuous growth, the economy was reported as being in trouble and the government disintegrating.
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continuous innovation
Change management specialists help colleagues through the continuous innovation and improvement throughout the company.
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Continuous innovation in documentary practice prevents the documentary idea from becoming stagnant or locked into any single generic form.
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Strategic resilience, therefore, requires continuous innovation with respect to product structures, processes, but also corporate behaviour.
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Business agility and continuous innovation are keys to success.
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continuous learning
A growth policy requires that a human organization establish the atmosphere of continuous learning and acquire the readiness to do different and bigger things.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
continuous loop
All of these versions are played on a continuous loop in the show.
Smithsonian Mag
Eight-track tapes, consisting of a continuous loop of magnetic ribbon, were the predecessor to cassettes, and did not need to be turned over to keep playing.
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Most listeners are attracted by the channel's three non-stop live streams, which play music on a continuous loop.
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It also will show a video, on continuous loop on the lost-wax process.
Globe and Mail
Sometime in the 18th or 19th century, the scam was resurrected with a new method one which used a continuous loop of string.
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continuous monitoring
One will be a fingertouch device, the other will be a wearable version for continuous monitoring.
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Although a laborious mechanism currently exists for measuring blood sugar, an important breakthough would be the development of a continuous monitoring device, perhaps worn on the wrist.
Times, Sunday Times
This kit allows for continuous monitoring of caspase activity.
The Scientist
Incorporating the probe into a hydrogel polymer allowed for continuous monitoring of glucose concentrations in the physiological range in vivo.
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A further 8 beds are allocated to a high dependency unit for patients with conditions that require continuous monitoring.
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continuous motion
In one continuous motion, invert the first potato pancake, crust side up, on to the fillets.
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Repeat the whole move on the other side in a continuous motion.
The Sun
This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession.
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While a film projector uses an intermittent mechanism to play the film, a sound follower and most telecines use continuous motion.
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Additionally, a snap must be a continuous motion.
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continuous movement
It forces you to work on either speed or continuous movement.
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Do this as a continuous movement.
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Repeat for 30 seconds in continuous movement before resting.
Times, Sunday Times
You then squat down, before rising to the original standing position and jumping up in the air, in one continuous movement.
Times, Sunday Times
Image quality can be reduced by the continuous movement of heart structures.
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continuous narrative
By guarding against excessive overlap between chapters, the editors have created a history which, unlike many multiple-author works, can be read as a continuous narrative.
The Times Literary Supplement
Tellingly, they appear on its two different sides, as if history’s chapters did not belong in the same continuous narrative.
Smithsonian Mag
At night the volumes can be said to form 'a continuous narrative stream in which all genres, all styles, all stories converge, and all protagonists and all locations are unidentified ...'.
Times, Sunday Times
But there are more jarring verbal echoes, ones which hamper the experience of reading the book as a continuous narrative.
The Times Literary Supplement
The episodes were later connected by a continuous narrative.
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continuous observation
The point-of-care diagnostic project focuses on the continuous observation and monitoring of biological liquids, e.g., veterinary or human blood samples.
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Such a series of measurements did not form a continuous observation of the signal and thus introduced a systematic bias into the measurement.
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However, methodological difficulties have hampered behavioral research, especially on the forest dwelling species, because their secretive behavior and cryptic coloration make them difficult to follow for continuous observation.
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The instruments will perform continuous observations over several spectral bands with resolution up to ten times better than with previous experiments.
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On the other hand, continuous observations such as the weights of birds comprise real number values and would typically be modeled by a continuous probability distribution such as the normal.
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continuous presence
Further, the continuous presence of the signs was a protest proportionate to the user.
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Railway operations staff have maintained a continuous presence in the station building where they make use of some of the rooms for staff facilities.
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He then developed within the ministry during 24 years of continuous presence in different positions.
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Flexible response required the continuous presence of substantial conventional forces.
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This allows for a continuous presence and the ability to swiftly respond to different crisis situations.
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continuous pressure
The effect of continuous pressure on a bunion during a lengthy campaign trail can be lethal.
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The continuous pressure and repeating setbacks did not discourage the personnel and management, who did what ever it took to solve out the challenges.
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The mine requires an average of 0.11 seconds of continuous pressure of an about 5 to 11 lbs before the fuze will detonate.
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Restricted in movement by military duties he was under continuous pressure.
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This employs an extremely high inverse ratio in a continuous pressure system similar to biphasic positive airway pressure but with several additional variables.
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continuous recording
Continuous recording of blood oxygen tensions by polarography.
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The new photographic drum method ensured continuous recording of geomagnetic elements, and rapidly gained use all over the world.
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The polysomnogram involves continuous recording of sleep brain waves and a number of nerve and muscle functions during nighttime sleep.
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The move from film to digital technology has greatly reduced the difficulty in use of these technologies with unpredictable behaviors, specifically via the use of continuous recording and post-triggering.
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continuous signal
One caught his eye — a continuous signal with no apparent explanation.
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It works well in the presence of a continuous signal, allowing the mirror tracking circuits to dither the mirror and maximise coupling.
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One such method involves sampling a continuous signal at discrete time intervals.
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A continuous signal can be sampled at some sampling rate and thus be converted into a digital representation using samples.
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Continuous signal may also be defined over an independent variable other than time.
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continuous stream
It is thus necessary to train a continuous stream of new men.
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Follow his feed and you find a continuous stream of absurdities.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
If one stayed at home after dinner, there was a continuous stream of visitors.
Kishlansky, Mark A. (editor) Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715 (1995)
The glow comes from the continuous stream of red-hot iron that pours from the bottom of the furnace.
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continuous stretch
This city has had a longer continuous stretch of sustained geopolitical importance than any other in the world.
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In 1923, its 1687 mi of pavement made it the longest continuous stretch of paved road in the world at the time.
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The coast of the peninsula on the western side consists of a continuous stretch of fine, white sand beaches.
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The continuous stretch of amino acid residues in the chain that enables targeting are called signal peptides or targeting peptides.
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continuous struggle
His fight for full fitness was a continuous struggle.
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Amid all the bickering and the continuous struggle to keep their heads above water, they've lost track of who they are and what they mean to each other.
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He urged all to achieve freedom and establish ones right through continuous struggle.
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His three year reign was a continuous struggle.
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The development of metallography was a continuous struggle to find better and easier methods to prepare metal surfaces for microstructure observation.
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continuous supply
Sow at intervals throughout the season for a continuous supply.
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It blocks blood vessels, which can prevent continuous supply of blood to the brain.
The Sun
He was scary but also managed to keep up a continuous supply of humour.
The Sun
Sow little and often (every three weeks) for a continuous supply.
Times, Sunday Times
I do not consider spending 1 a day - or slightly over - by 2015 an excessive amount to pay for a continuous supply of clean running water.
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continuous surveillance
It seems likely that we are the last people to remember a time before continuous surveillance and other breaches of privacy.
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Our house was under continuous surveillance, with security police cars parked on the road outside 24 hours a day.
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When three satellites are placed in the same orbit and networked, they can provide continuous surveillance and ground access.
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Due to difficulties and continuous surveillance from the authorities, he had to leaeve the country.
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In reality, however, they were placed under continuous surveillance by their promoters and were unable to enjoy the private lives invented for them.
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continuous thread
The numbers, which all sounded much the same, gently segued into one another, forming a single continuous thread throughout the performance.
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Often knitted photo blankets consist of limited colors due to the knitting process and the continuous thread forming loops in the process.
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The fibers are then unwound to produce a continuous thread.
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These factors all contribute to the ability of the whole cocoon to be unravelled as one continuous thread, permitting a much stronger cloth to be woven from the silk.
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The importance of the role of the state in generating a successful path of competitive industrialisation was one of the continuous threads running through his work.
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continuous use
What he wrote has stayed in continuous use for more than a millennium.
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Its thickness means it houses a large battery — you'll get genuine tablet performance of at least eight hours of continuous use.
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After a month or so of continuous use, you'll be checking out your younger-looking skin.
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With more kick than a double espresso, it's been found that continuous use can stimulate growth.
The Sun
Made from soft clear plastic, each filter gives 24 hours of continuous use and can be worn while asleep.
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Translations:
Chinese: 连续的
Japanese: 連続的な
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