大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 continental
释义：
continental adj. 大洲的，大陆的；欧洲大陆的；具有欧洲特点的
n. （欧洲）大陆人
[ 复数 continentals ]
例句：
He sees no signs of improvement in the U.K. and continental economy.
他看不出英国和欧洲大陆的经济好转的迹象。
Prices are often higher in Hawaii than in the continental United States.
夏威夷的物价常常比美国大陆高。
The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.
该大陆地壳最古老的那些部分有40亿年了。
Lowered sea levels exposed the shallow continental shelf beneath the Bering Sea.
下降了的海平面使白令海底的浅大陆架露了出来。
The quota system was modelled on those operated in America and continental Europe.
配额制是仿照美国和欧洲大陆所施行的那些制度制定出来的。
Grey wolves once were seen in much of the continental United States.
灰狼曾经出现在美国大陆的大部分地区。
Earth's continental crust has changed significantly in composition overtime.
随着时间的推移，地球大陆地壳的组成发生了巨大的变化。
The frequency of whale fish theft in the Bering Sea's continental shelf is increasing.
白令海大陆架上的鲸鱼盗窃案发生得越来越频繁。
Unlike the British, continental migrants have to struggle with an unfamiliar language and new customs.
与英国人不同的是，欧洲大陆的移民必须努力适应陌生的语言和新的习俗。
Theoretically, this convection would carry the continental plates along as though they were on a conveyor belt.
从理论上讲，这种对流会把大陆板块带到一起，好像把它们放在传送带上一样。
When a continental plate come to rest over a hot spot, the material rising from deeper layer creates a broad dome.
当大陆板块停留在一个热点上时，从深层升起的物质就会形成一个广阔的圆顶。
There used to be beavers all over the place, something like 200 million beavers, just in the continental United States.
在美国大陆，到处都有海狸，大约有2亿只海狸。
Ocean sediments presented a much more complete geologic record of the Pleistocene than continental glacial deposits did.
相比于大陆冰川沉积物，海洋沉积物提供了更完整的更新世时期的地质记录。
Just a few years back it was a strictly continental affair with France, Belgium and Holland, Spain and Italy taking part.
就在几年前，这还只是一场大陆赛事，法国、比利时、荷兰、西班牙和意大利都参与其中。
This route would have enabled humans to enter southern areas of the Americas prior to the melting of the continental glaciers.
这条路线将使人类能够在大陆冰川融化之前进入美洲南部地区。
The oceanic plate is made of denser and heavier rock, so it begins to sink down under the continental plate and into the mantle.
海洋板块是由密度更大、更重的岩石构成的，所以它开始下沉到大陆板块之下，到地幔之中。
He persuasively argued that such an ice-free corridor did not exist until much later, when the continental ice began its final retreat.
他很有说服力地指出，直到很久以后，当大陆上的冰开始最后消退时，才有了这样一条没有冰的走廊。
In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed, in a widely debated theory that came to be called continental drift, that Earth's continents were mobile.
1912年，阿尔弗雷德·魏格纳在一个被称为“大陆漂移”的理论中提出，地球上的大陆是可移动的。
Earth's internal heat, fueled by radioactivity, provides the energy for plate tectonics and continental drift, mountain building, and earthquakes.
地球内部因放射而产生的热量为板块运动、大陆漂移、造山运动和地震提供了能量。
It is a global record: there is remarkably little variation in isotope ratios in sedimentary specimens taken from different continental locations.
这是一个全球性的记录：在取自不同大陆位置的沉积标本中，同位素比率的变化非常小。
The areas covered by this material were so vast that the ice that deposited it must have been a continental glacier larger than Greenland or Antarctica.
这种物质覆盖的区域十分巨大，因此使其沉积下来的冰一定是比格陵兰岛或南极洲更大的大陆冰川。
