喜樂美語

Picture a line with no break points: joined all the way through, no stop, no gap. Continuous is "your finger slides along it and never drops into a hole" — whether the line runs through time (something never stops) or across a surface (nothing is cut or missing). At heart it's one stretch, held together end to end.

可以想成一條沒有斷點的線：從頭到尾一路連著，中間不停、沒有缺口。continuous 的畫面比較像「手指沿著它滑過去，從不會掉進空隙」——不管指的是時間上一直不停，還是一條線、一個面上沒有裂縫，核心都是「整段黏在一起、連成一氣」。

From the word’s history

From Latin continuus, from continere: com- "together" + tenere "to hold" — literally "to hold together." At root it means staying all held together, not coming apart, which is exactly "no break, no gap."

continuous 來自拉丁文 continuus，源頭是 continere，com-（一起）＋ tenere（握住），字面是「握在一起、連在一起」。所以這個字骨子裡就是「整段被握著、不散開」——今天講不間斷、沒有缺口，正是這個「hold together」的畫面。

etymonline.com/word/continuous

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

意思相近

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意思相反

brokenintermittentdottedfinal examdashed

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

continuousadj/kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/

  • 1

    Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.

    • the continuous roar of a waterfall
    • a continuous current of electricity
  • 2

    Without intervening space; continued.

    • a continuous line of railroad
    • […] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work by the use of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards.
  • 3

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesNot deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

  • 4

    mathematical-analysismathematicssciencesSuch that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.

  • 5

    mathematicssciencesSuch that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).

    • Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.
  • 6

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsExpressing an ongoing action or state.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。