大陆

• It reduced indochina to its proper scale-a small peninsula on a major continent .
  它把印度支那还原到它应有的尺度--一个大陆上的不大的半岛。
• The continental crust is much thicker than average beneath the great mountain belts .
  在高山地带下面的大陆地壳，其厚度要比平均厚度大得多。
• There is a higher heat production in the upper mantle below oceans than below continents .
  大洋下的上地幔要比大陆下的上地幔有较高的热产率。
• The idea that continents broke and drift apart is known as the hypothesis of continental drift .
  认为大陆曾经分裂并漂离的想法叫大陆漂移假说。
• Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation .
  八十七年前我们的先辈在这块大陆上建立了一个新的国家。
• If tunnel is built , it will connect britain to europe for the first time in history .
  如果隧道建成，它将有史以来第一次把不列颠和欧洲大陆连接起来。
• In the northern hemisphere, the western portions of continents are especially favored by the prevailing winds .
  在北半球，大陆西部地区尤受多风之惠。
• I commented that a long period of build-up would have to precede any attack on the european .
  而我预期在进行任何方式进攻欧洲大陆前，必须有一长期的整备。
• Evidence that at least the continental parts of plates may be very thick is of long standing .
  至少在大陆部分的板块可能很厚，这一证据长期以来就提出来了。