Continual

(adj.) occurring without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series; 'the continual banging of the shutters' .

(adj.) `continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with `continuous' (meaning without interruption) .

录入:山姆

• Well, then, he said, I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• This unlucky page, engaged in an evil hour at six pounds ten per annum, was a source of continual trouble to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Notwithstanding the great increase occasioned by such early marriages, there is a continual complaint of the scarcity of hands in North America. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Only in this island of Luggnagg the appetite for living was not so eager, from the continual example of the _struldbrugs_ before their eyes. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Before that time it seemed impossible that explosive gases would ever be harnessed as steam had been and made to do continual successful work in a cylinder and behind a piston. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Yet in the light of it government becomes alert to a process of continual creation, an unceasing invention of forms to meet constantly changing needs. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• And yet, though every leaf may seem still, there is a continual rushing sound of movement all around--not close at hand. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• By folk the good ladies of course mean themselves, for indeed they are kept in a continual fry by this system of mutual invasion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Not the least fear had I: I believe I would have followed that frank tread, through continual night, to the world's end. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It is liable, besides, to almost continual variations. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• She can have no idea of the pain she gives me by her continual reflections on him. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Mr. Woodhouse could not be soon reconciled; but the worst was overcome, the idea was given; time and continual repetition must do the rest. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I am weary of this continual call upon me for strength. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Every body who saw it was pleased, but Mr. Elton was in continual raptures, and defended it through every criticism. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The old folks encouraged me by continual invitations to supper, and by leaving us together, till at length it was time to explain. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I avoided explanation, and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Dr. Cruger saw a continual procession of bees thus crawling out of their involuntary bath. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• As soon, however, as the consciousness of all this was forced by continual repetition on Marianne, she could stay no longer. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• They are more likely, therefore, to have that continual and careful attention which that maintenance necessarily requires. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• For conscious life is a continual beginning afresh. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I deserve to be under a continual blush all the rest of my life. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• At first they lived in open villages outside the ruins of the cities they had destroyed, but there stood the model for them, a continual suggestion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These simple everyday occurrences seem to show that the molecules of a gas must be in a state of continual and rapid motion. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The promised visit from her friend, as Edmund called Miss Crawford, was a formidable threat to Fanny, and she lived in continual terror of it. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The town is a continual fair or market, to which the inhabitants of the country resort, in order to exchange their rude for manufactured produce. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The dealers have no respite from the continual visits and examination of the excise officers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He scarcely ever left her alone, but followed her like a shadow, he was like a doom upon her, a continual 'thou shalt,' 'thou shalt not. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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