【continue音标】 英[kənˈtɪnju:] 美[kənˈtɪnju:]
【单词释义】 continue是什么意思：
vt.&vi.&link-v.继续，连续
vi.持续；逗留，停留；维持原状
vt.[法律]延期；使延伸；使持续；继续说
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] continues
[单词现在分词] continuing
[单词过去式] continued
[单词过去分词] continued
【continue形近词/近似词】
retinue n. 随从；随行人员
【近义词解析】
◇ 继续
continue (v. 继续)：指持续而不停止，也可指中断后又继续下去。
go on (phr. v. 继续，持续)：指不停顿地继续下去；go on doing sth 表示继续干同一件事，而 go on to do sth 则表示干完一件事后接着干另一件事。
keep (v. 继续)：指继续做之前所做的某事或重复做同一件事。
resume (v. 继续)：指中断后继续进行。
【单词例句】
◇ One day, the dog President held a meeting. At the meeting, he said: "the big tiger often eat the animals in the forests, continue like this, the forest will be destroyed. Who dare to, kill a tiger?"
有一天，狗会长召开了一次会议。在会上，他说：“大老虎经常吃森林里的动物，再这样下去，整个森林都会毁灭。有谁敢前去，消灭大老虎？”
---- The Big Tiger and Little Rabbit
◇ Out came cloth as fine as gossamer that continued to unroll until the throne room was covered with it.
国王打开核桃，从里面取出了一球细线，细得像蜘蛛网一样，国王拽呀拽，拉呀拉，越拉越长，拉出来的线堆满了整个大殿。
---- The Prince Who Married a Frog
◇ And she showed him the two letters that the evil one had counterfeited. Then she continued to speak, "I did what you ordered," and showed him as proof the eyes and the tongue.
她拿出那两封被恶魔换了的信给国王看，接着说：“我已经照办了。”说着拿出舌头和眼睛作证。
---- The Girl without Hands (II)
◇ She had scarcely made one cut, before a little kid stuck its head out, and as she continued to cut, one after the other all six jumped out, and they were all still alive. They were not even hurt, for in his greed the monster had swallowed them down whole.
刚剪了第一刀，一只小羊就把头探了出来。它继续剪下去，六只小羊一个个都跳了出来，全都活着，而且一点也没有受伤，因为那贪婪的坏蛋是把它们整个吞下去的。
---- The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
◇ Crude oil could be refined into many products. For some years kerosene continued to be the principal one. It was sold in grocery stores and door-to-door.
原油能被提炼成许多产品。 多年以来煤油一直是主要的一种产品。它在杂货店中出售由人挨户推销。
---- Oil Refining
◇ I bought this policy for you, though the amount is only $100k, I hope it will be able to help me continue my promise that I have made when we got married, I might not be around anymore, I want this amount of money to continue taking care of you, just like the way I will if I could have live longer.
我为你买了这份保险。虽然金额总数才区区10万美元，但我希望它能帮助我继续履行我们结婚时我所起的照顾你一生一世的诺言。我不能再陪你一起度过你的余生，但我希望保险金额里的钱能够帮助我实现照顾你后半生生活的愿望，就像我可以重生的话那样照顾你。
---- Life Together
◇ I want a wife who will care for me when I am sick and sympathize with my pain and loss of time from school. I want a wife to go along when our family takes a vacation so that someone can continue to care for me and my children when I need a rest and change of scene.
我想要个妻，生病时她是我的慰籍，旅行时她伴我同行，及时满足我和孩子的不时之需。
---- I Want a Wife
◇ My father continued to walk alongside her as he always had. Two people who had stood together against all odds. My mother orphaned at a young age and moved place to place. My father the youngest of nine in a family hurt with poverty.
父亲一如既往地走在母亲的身旁，如同二人昔日承受所有的患难。母亲幼年时就成了孤儿，四处漂流；父亲兄弟姊妹九个，也曾饱受贫困之苦。
---- To Love Enough
◇ The increase, up from the current count of 7.7 billion people, is expected despite a continued decline in the global fertility rate, which has fallen from 3.2 births per woman in 1990 to 2.5 births per woman this year.
尽管全球生育率持续下降，但预计届时这一数字仍将远超目前的77亿人口。全球生育率从1990年的3.2下降到今年的2.5。
---- World's population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100
◇ They asked for the most delicate silk and the purest gold thread; put both into their own knapsacks; and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms until late at night.
他们接二连三地请求皇帝发一些最好的生丝和金子给他们。他们把这些东西都装进自己的腰包，却假装在那两架空空的织机上忙碌地工作，一直忙到深夜。