| 单词 | continual |
| 释义 | con·tin·u·al 1. < the continual dread of falling into poverty which haunts us all at present — G.B.Shaw > 2. < continual storm … with frequent showers of snow — William Wordsworth > 3. obsolete a. b. of disease c. Synonyms: < we live in a country where his Majesty's Cabinet governs subject to the continual superintendence, correction, and authority of Parliament — Sir Winston Churchill > < the new struggle was continuous, the old had been sporadic — Lewis Mumford > continual is somewhat more common than continuous in describing intermittent action, but both words are well-established and satisfactory in this sense < the century and a half that followed the gathering of the estates at Westminster was a time of almost continual war — J.R.Green > < continual and regular impulses of pleasurable surprise from the metrical arrangement — William Wordsworth > < continuous landslides raised the cost of maintenance so high that a loss was sustained each year — American Guide Series: Connecticut > Unlike continual in this respect, continuous may apply to space as well as time < the continuous plains of the Great Lowland overlap from the Continental and Arctic drainage of the Heartland into the east of the European peninsula — H.J.Mackinder > constant strongly implies lasting steadiness, lack of change, or uniformity < unfortunately, perhaps, experience does not grow at a constant, but at an accelerated, rate — J.W.Krutch > < personal goodness … of a very fitful cast — an occasional almost oppressive generosity rather than a mild and constant kindness — Thomas Hardy > incessant suggests virtually ceaseless uninterrupted activity < his incessant talking and shouting and bellowing of orders had been too much — Jack London > < over that which we call the meaning of the words a poet uses, there goes on an incessant play of suggestion, caught from each user's own adventures among words — J.L.Lowes > unremitting indicates unceasing activity without slackening or halting < sporadic outbursts are converted by the rationalization into purposive and unremitting activity — Aldous Huxley > < the men fifteen or twenty paces apart, all in concealment and under injunction of strict silence and unremitting vigilance — Ambrose Bierce > perpetual indicates lasting duration or unfailing repetition < sins unatoned for and uncondoned bring purgatorial or perpetual torment after death, even as holiness brings eternal bliss — H.O.Taylor > < their heroic defense will be recorded for all time. It will be perpetual proof that democracy … can show the stuff of which it was made — F.D.Roosevelt > < weary … of perpetual state business and perpetual honors; he wanted a rest — Robert Graves > perennial connotes either existence over a long period or certain recurrence < those who have lived before such terms as “highbrow fiction”, “thrillers”, and “detective fiction” were invented realize that melodrama is perennial — T.S.Eliot > < to all who profess faith in the democratic ideal Jefferson is a perennial inspiration — V.L.Parrington > |
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