大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 continent


释义：

continent n. 洲，大陆
adj. 有排便节制力的；<旧>节制性欲的
[ 复数 continents ]

例句：



She loved the African continent.

她热爱非洲大陆。



The news set off a continent-wide health scare.

这一消息引起了整个大陆的健康恐慌。



The famine threatened to depopulate the continent.

饥荒威胁着该大陆人口数量。



It is geographically more diverse than any other continent.

它在地理上比其他任何大陆都更具多样性。



Ancient historians wrote of a lost continent beneath the ocean.

古代史学家写过有关一个沉没海底大陆的事迹。



Nigeria is the most populous African country and an economic powerhouse for the continent.

尼日利亚是非洲人口最稠密的国家，也是非洲大陆的经济强国。



He traversed alone the whole continent of Africa from east to west.

他独自一人从东到西横越整个非洲大陆。



The ocean floor would kind of slide under the edge of the continent.

海洋底部在某种程度上会滑到大陆边缘之下。



Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled across the continent.

沙克尔顿想用狗拉雪橇强行穿越大陆。



Robert Anderson to duplicate his Mexican success in the sub-continent.

罗伯特·安德森在次大陆复制了他在墨西哥的成功。



The World Cup is called that because teams from every continent have played in it.

世界杯之所以被称为世界杯，是因为各个大洲的球队都曾参加过这个比赛。



An island country, a whole continent, Australia has markably cohesive personality.

作为一个岛国，一个大洲，澳大利亚具有明显的人格凝聚力。



You could back off to see the state, the country, the continent, even the globe itself.

你可以退一步去看看这个州、这个国家、这个大陆，甚至这个地球本身。



The cane toad itself became a pest and has destroyed much of the wildlife on that continent.

蔗蜍本身变成了一种害虫，并且已经破坏了那片大陆上的很多野生动物。



More and more of this plate, the ocean floor, would go down under the continent into the mantle.

越来越多的这种板块，即海床，将在大陆下方进入地幔。



Because of this, Borlaug's initial projects were restricted to developed regions of the continent.

因此，博劳格最初的项目仅限于这片大陆的发达地区。



Not a single pebble was found that might have indicated that the pebbles came from the nearby continent.

附近没有发现任何鹅卵石能表明这些石头来自附近的大陆。



What happened to Australia's megafauna, the giant animals that once existed across this enormous continent?

曾经生活在澳大利亚这片广袤大陆上的巨型动物经历了什么？



The entire continent and the majority of species are now affected: between 30% and 50% of the tree population.

整个大陆和大部分的物种（占树木的数量的30%至50%）目前都受到了影响。



Being stationed in Antarctica involves adapting to life on the planet's driest, windiest and coldest continent.

驻扎在南极洲需要适应在地球上最干燥、风最大和最冷的大陆上生活。