continuity
nounOPAL W
/ˌkɒntɪˈnjuːəti/
/ˌkɑːntɪˈnuːəti/
(plural continuities)
- [uncountable] the fact of not stopping or not changing
连续性；持续性 - to ensure/provide/maintain continuity of fuel supplies
确保／提供／保持燃料供给的连续性
- After twelve or thirteen centuries of unbroken continuity the landscape was being changed out of all recognition.
经过12 或13个世纪不间断的变化后，这个地区的地貌已是面目全非了。 - More liaison between the old manager and the new one should ensure greater continuity.
前任和新任经理间的更多交流应该能够确保管理上更加连续。 - To ensure continuity of care, it is better for a single doctor to treat the patient.
为确保治疗的连续性，最好是让一位医生单独来治疗这位病人。 - We aim to give children a sense of continuity.
我们的目的是给孩子一种持续感。 - historical continuity in the feminist movement
女权运动的历史连续性 - the need for continuity of employment
持续就业的需要
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- greater
- remarkable
- unbroken
- …
- ensure
- establish
- give somebody/something
- …
- continuity between
- continuity in
- continuity of
- …
- a lack of continuity
- a need for continuity
- a sense of continuity
- …
- to ensure/provide/maintain continuity of fuel supplies
- [uncountable, countable] a logical connection between the parts of something, or between two things
（逻辑上的）连接，联结 - The novel fails to achieve narrative continuity.
这部小说叙述不连贯。 - There are obvious continuities between diet and health.
日常饮食与健康之间有着明显的逻辑关联。
- The author deliberately breaks the narrative continuity in order to confound the reader's expectations.
作者故意打破叙述的连贯性，以制造出乎读者意料的效果。 - She is anxious to stress the continuity with the past in this new work.
她急于在这部新作中强调与过去的连续性。 - There is often a lack of continuity between one government and the next.
一届政府与下一届之间往往缺少连续性。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- greater
- remarkable
- unbroken
- …
- ensure
- establish
- give somebody/something
- …
- continuity between
- continuity in
- continuity of
- …
- a lack of continuity
- a need for continuity
- a sense of continuity
- …
- The novel fails to achieve narrative continuity.
- [uncountable] (specialist) the organization of a film or television programme, especially making sure that people’s clothes, objects, etc. are the same from one scene to the next
（电影或电视节目场景中服装、物体等的）一致性，衔接
词源late Middle English: from Old French continuite, from Latin continuitas, from continuare ‘continue’, from continuus ‘uninterrupted’, from continere ‘hang together’ (from con- ‘together with’ + tenere ‘hold’).