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Definition of continuation in English:

continuation

noun kəntɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)nkənˌtɪnjuˈeɪʃ(ə)n
mass noun
  • 1The action of carrying something on over time or the state of being carried on.

    延长,继续;持续

    the continuation of discussions about a permanent peace

    关于永久和平讨论的继续。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As necessity dictates, there are sinister reasons behind all that unfolds, and at the end the scene is set for an even darker and gloomier continuation.
    • The continuation of its current reform path should enable Bulgaria to cope with competitive pressure and market forces within the Union.
    • Perhaps the most obvious issue is resumption, continuation, or worsening of substance abuse.
    • What we did today was simply to clarify just loads and loads of questions, and there will be that continuation of that same process this evening.
    • What resulted is a discussion on record to obtain new dates for continuation.
    • The trouble is, of course, that the civil war was itself the legacy of British imperialism's continuation through the post-colonial era.
    • In due course this strategy would have the advantage of making unnecessary the continuation of American economic aid to Western Europe.
    • I note that one of the major recommendations was that continuation of research is critical to New Zealand's future.
    • Nowhere, perhaps, is this as exasperating as in the terrible continuation of massive hunger and undernourishment in India.
    • The continuation of this style of development is welcome.
    • For the institution of the High Court the appointment of a new Judge reflects a process of continuation and renewal.
    • The continuation of the human society as we know it now is a function of today's youths who will be tomorrow's adults guiding those coming behind them.
    • Wherever we finish up, my top priority is to obtain the best deal for the members and within that I'd like to see healthy continuation of the protection business.
    • Which leaves the question of what we'll get when the feature-length continuation of the show debuts almost a year from now.
    • This e-mail is partly an afterthought and partly continuation of our discussion from last night.
    • The annual Budget is a natural process of continuation of financial policies and it should build up on the edifice that exists already.
    • The quiz programme is in continuation and in addition to the lecture series on the above subjects regularly held once in a month on Sundays.
    • Services needed to be used to guarantee continuation.
    • So if the work-for-the-dole scheme fails its own criteria, one may justly ask what's the point of its continuation?
    • I'm proud of my mother's family history, and of what my last name represents in terms of connection to and continuation of that history.
    Synonyms
    resumption, reopening, restart, renewal
    formal recommencement
    1. 1.1 The state of remaining in a particular position or condition.
      留任;维持原状
      the government's continuation in office
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There is almost no place for effective resistance to the maintenance and continuation of this order.
      • They said his continuation in office was ensuring that the tensions remained.
      • Another concern is the continuation of drought conditions across much of the south-east of the country.
      • The safest course may well be for the lender to express its proposals for rehabilitation of the company in the form of conditions for continuation of its support.
      • Low education levels, in turn, promote the continuation of these underlying conditions.
      • Our submission is that it is an affront to the administration of justice if the continuation of the proceedings would be an abuse.
      • The real blame for the continuation in office of the increasingly megalomaniacal Maire lies with the Liberals.
      • I think this conversation would best be served by continuation in the Admiral's office, don't you think?
      • Its mission then as now is to preserve artifacts and works of art and to assure the continuation of the Spanish colonial art tradition.
      • They argue that his contributions are nothing more than a continuation of Stalin's positions.
      • What was the position taken at trial as to the continuation of the contract?
      • Required preventative treatments as a condition for issuance and continuation of a policy.
      • In fact, he won elections just two years ago, with 53 percent of the vote, and is ready to hold a referendum on his continuation in office next June.
      • For much the same reason, we support the continuation of the office of Queen's Counsel.
      • Although they are guaranteed labor rights on paper, guestworkers depend on the continuation of a job to remain in the country.
      • The continuation of economic austerity policies under these conditions has provoked a wave of upheavals throughout the continent.
      • A continuation of this positive outlook hinged on the commitment of the Government to stay on course in the reform process, he added.
      • The continuation of such appalling conditions is cause for anger and consternation across a wide spectrum of animal lovers.
      • This hardly bodes well for those seeking to perpetuate the continuation of the dollar reserve system in its current form.
      • As long as such funding is given without conditions it is the best way of ensuring the continuation of academic freedom and the existence of the university in any meaningful sense.
      Synonyms
      carrying on, continuance, prolongation, protraction
    2. 1.2count noun, usually in singular A part that is attached to and is an extension of something else.
      附加部分;延长部分;扩建部分;续篇
      once a separate village, it is now a continuation of the suburbs

      这里曾是个独立的村庄,现在成了郊区的延伸部分。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • In order to develop a profile of the market during the period under examination, the audit firms that represented continuations of partnerships and named individual members of firms were grouped together.
      • A friend of mine likes to create continuations of books he reads.
      • Although hypnopompic imagery was originally defined as a persistence of dream imagery into wakefulness, it seems that the images are not always continuations of dreams because they can begin after the sleeper has awoken.
      • Do postcolonialism and postmodernism herald the birth of a new era, or are they merely continuations of the old under a new guise?
      • These decisions are continuations of situations already in play, and it's your job to move them into the next phase.
      • Despite the broken-backed attempts by his contemporaries to reinvent his fiction in the form of parodies, continuations, burlettas, and melodramas, the novels themselves appear to have always won the day.
      • Today, many of these paintings seem tame - mere continuations of Western traditions of portraying the nude; yet in their time, they triggered widespread outrage.
      • A lot of the problems that we have nowadays in the world are very obviously continuations and connections from things that have gone on long ago.
      • Sequels contain the continuations of powerful stories.
      • They are mostly continuations of scenes already in the film, and would not have added much to the finished product.
      • Computer networks are continuations of earlier communication technologies such as the telegraph and telephone, radio and television, and similar devices that rely on networked infrastructures.
      • This is often accomplished through a juxtaposition of scenes that could almost be continuations of each other, if it were not for the change in location and actors.
      • Incidentally, if readers who view the above patents are puzzled by their recent dates, it's because both were filed as continuations of previous filings, going back to the dates listed above.
      • She dined with presidents and prime ministers, often at her home, and frequently at the salons of the rich and powerful, where the conversations often were continuations of parliamentary or embassy debates.
      • However, the common tendencies observed among similar economies are tendencies that do not seem to be simply continuations of historic trends.
      • From one position there might be 20 possible moves, and from each of those there are 20 for the other player, and so on, so after N moves there are 20 to the power N different possible continuations.
      • The six books under consideration reveal some newer trends as well as continuations of older tendencies in Romantic studies.
      • Instead of coming up with ways to ‘legally’ marry her, the only thoughts coming to him were continuations of his visions for the future.
      • The linear challenges will be met with science and technology efforts maturing before 2020, which are continuations of today's current technology.
      • Mothers also may contribute to a social construction of gender by treating their sons as different from themselves, while treating their daughters as similar, or continuations, of themselves.
      Synonyms
      extension, addition

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin continuatio(n-), from continuare 'continue', from continuus (see continuous).

Definition of continuation in US English:

continuation

nounkənˌtɪnjuˈeɪʃ(ə)nkənˌtinyo͞oˈāSH(ə)n
  • 1The action of carrying something on over a period of time or the process of being carried on.

    延长,继续;持续

    the continuation of discussions about a permanent peace

    关于永久和平讨论的继续。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The continuation of the human society as we know it now is a function of today's youths who will be tomorrow's adults guiding those coming behind them.
    • I'm proud of my mother's family history, and of what my last name represents in terms of connection to and continuation of that history.
    • The annual Budget is a natural process of continuation of financial policies and it should build up on the edifice that exists already.
    • So if the work-for-the-dole scheme fails its own criteria, one may justly ask what's the point of its continuation?
    • Services needed to be used to guarantee continuation.
    • The continuation of its current reform path should enable Bulgaria to cope with competitive pressure and market forces within the Union.
    • Perhaps the most obvious issue is resumption, continuation, or worsening of substance abuse.
    • The trouble is, of course, that the civil war was itself the legacy of British imperialism's continuation through the post-colonial era.
    • Nowhere, perhaps, is this as exasperating as in the terrible continuation of massive hunger and undernourishment in India.
    • I note that one of the major recommendations was that continuation of research is critical to New Zealand's future.
    • For the institution of the High Court the appointment of a new Judge reflects a process of continuation and renewal.
    • In due course this strategy would have the advantage of making unnecessary the continuation of American economic aid to Western Europe.
    • The quiz programme is in continuation and in addition to the lecture series on the above subjects regularly held once in a month on Sundays.
    • Wherever we finish up, my top priority is to obtain the best deal for the members and within that I'd like to see healthy continuation of the protection business.
    • As necessity dictates, there are sinister reasons behind all that unfolds, and at the end the scene is set for an even darker and gloomier continuation.
    • Which leaves the question of what we'll get when the feature-length continuation of the show debuts almost a year from now.
    • What resulted is a discussion on record to obtain new dates for continuation.
    • This e-mail is partly an afterthought and partly continuation of our discussion from last night.
    • The continuation of this style of development is welcome.
    • What we did today was simply to clarify just loads and loads of questions, and there will be that continuation of that same process this evening.
    Synonyms
    carrying on, continuance, prolongation, protraction
    resumption, reopening, restart, renewal
    1. 1.1 The state of remaining in a particular position or condition.
      留任;维持原状
      the administration's continuation in office
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I think this conversation would best be served by continuation in the Admiral's office, don't you think?
      • This hardly bodes well for those seeking to perpetuate the continuation of the dollar reserve system in its current form.
      • A continuation of this positive outlook hinged on the commitment of the Government to stay on course in the reform process, he added.
      • The safest course may well be for the lender to express its proposals for rehabilitation of the company in the form of conditions for continuation of its support.
      • Low education levels, in turn, promote the continuation of these underlying conditions.
      • What was the position taken at trial as to the continuation of the contract?
      • Its mission then as now is to preserve artifacts and works of art and to assure the continuation of the Spanish colonial art tradition.
      • As long as such funding is given without conditions it is the best way of ensuring the continuation of academic freedom and the existence of the university in any meaningful sense.
      • Our submission is that it is an affront to the administration of justice if the continuation of the proceedings would be an abuse.
      • The real blame for the continuation in office of the increasingly megalomaniacal Maire lies with the Liberals.
      • For much the same reason, we support the continuation of the office of Queen's Counsel.
      • They said his continuation in office was ensuring that the tensions remained.
      • There is almost no place for effective resistance to the maintenance and continuation of this order.
      • Another concern is the continuation of drought conditions across much of the south-east of the country.
      • They argue that his contributions are nothing more than a continuation of Stalin's positions.
      • Required preventative treatments as a condition for issuance and continuation of a policy.
      • In fact, he won elections just two years ago, with 53 percent of the vote, and is ready to hold a referendum on his continuation in office next June.
      • The continuation of economic austerity policies under these conditions has provoked a wave of upheavals throughout the continent.
      • The continuation of such appalling conditions is cause for anger and consternation across a wide spectrum of animal lovers.
      • Although they are guaranteed labor rights on paper, guestworkers depend on the continuation of a job to remain in the country.
      Synonyms
      carrying on, continuance, prolongation, protraction
    2. 1.2usually in singular A part that is attached to and is an extension of something else.
      附加部分;延长部分;扩建部分;续篇
      once a separate village, it is now a continuation of the suburbs

      这里曾是个独立的村庄,现在成了郊区的延伸部分。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • They are mostly continuations of scenes already in the film, and would not have added much to the finished product.
      • Although hypnopompic imagery was originally defined as a persistence of dream imagery into wakefulness, it seems that the images are not always continuations of dreams because they can begin after the sleeper has awoken.
      • Sequels contain the continuations of powerful stories.
      • The six books under consideration reveal some newer trends as well as continuations of older tendencies in Romantic studies.
      • A friend of mine likes to create continuations of books he reads.
      • Instead of coming up with ways to ‘legally’ marry her, the only thoughts coming to him were continuations of his visions for the future.
      • Incidentally, if readers who view the above patents are puzzled by their recent dates, it's because both were filed as continuations of previous filings, going back to the dates listed above.
      • This is often accomplished through a juxtaposition of scenes that could almost be continuations of each other, if it were not for the change in location and actors.
      • Computer networks are continuations of earlier communication technologies such as the telegraph and telephone, radio and television, and similar devices that rely on networked infrastructures.
      • Despite the broken-backed attempts by his contemporaries to reinvent his fiction in the form of parodies, continuations, burlettas, and melodramas, the novels themselves appear to have always won the day.
      • In order to develop a profile of the market during the period under examination, the audit firms that represented continuations of partnerships and named individual members of firms were grouped together.
      • Today, many of these paintings seem tame - mere continuations of Western traditions of portraying the nude; yet in their time, they triggered widespread outrage.
      • However, the common tendencies observed among similar economies are tendencies that do not seem to be simply continuations of historic trends.
      • Do postcolonialism and postmodernism herald the birth of a new era, or are they merely continuations of the old under a new guise?
      • She dined with presidents and prime ministers, often at her home, and frequently at the salons of the rich and powerful, where the conversations often were continuations of parliamentary or embassy debates.
      • From one position there might be 20 possible moves, and from each of those there are 20 for the other player, and so on, so after N moves there are 20 to the power N different possible continuations.
      • These decisions are continuations of situations already in play, and it's your job to move them into the next phase.
      • The linear challenges will be met with science and technology efforts maturing before 2020, which are continuations of today's current technology.
      • A lot of the problems that we have nowadays in the world are very obviously continuations and connections from things that have gone on long ago.
      • Mothers also may contribute to a social construction of gender by treating their sons as different from themselves, while treating their daughters as similar, or continuations, of themselves.
      Synonyms
      extension, addition

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin continuatio(n-), from continuare ‘continue’, from continuus (see continuous).

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