夏威夷的物价常常比美国大陆高。
Prices are often higher in Hawaii than in the continental United States.
古代史学家写过有关一个沉没海底大陆的事迹。
Ancient historians wrote of a lost continent beneath the ocean.
北美大陆的地形严格限制了进攻通道。
The North American continent's geography severely limited the lines of attack.
这一消息引起了整个大陆的健康恐慌。
自然灾害显然促使了该大陆的经济危机。
Natural disasters have obviously contributed to the continent's economic crisis.
配额制是仿照美国和欧洲大陆所施行的那些制度制定出来的。
The quota system was modelled on those operated in America and continental Europe.
从大陆出发的汽车渡轮常常到2月底前就被预订一空。
The car ferries from the mainland are often fully booked by February.
厄瓜多尔是南美的一个绝佳概览；它是整个大陆的缩影。
Ecuador provides a perfect introduction to South America; it's a continent in miniature.
那么，我们知道某些大陆目前是如何移动的。
如今，清明节是中国大陆的法定假日。
Today, the Qingming Festival is a statutory public holiday in Chinese mainland.
随着时间的推移，地壳板块移动，同时也移动了大陆和海底。
Over time, the tectonic plates move and shift, which moves the continents and the ocean floors too.
附近没有发现任何鹅卵石能表明这些石头来自附近的大陆。
Not a single pebble was found that might have indicated that the pebbles came from the nearby continent.
地球内部因放射而产生的热量为板块运动、大陆漂移、造山运动和地震提供了能量。
Earth's internal heat, fueled by radioactivity, provides the energy for plate tectonics and continental drift, mountain building, and earthquakes.
罗伯特·安德森在次大陆复制了他在墨西哥的成功。
Robert Anderson to duplicate his Mexican success in the sub-continent.
灰狼曾经出现在美国大陆的大部分地区。
Grey wolves once were seen in much of the continental United States.
“从科西嘉，”他接着说，“我搭了一艘把葡萄酒运到大陆的船。”
"From Corsica," he went on, "I made use of a ship that was taking wine to the mainland."
例如，斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德认为，大陆漂移理论之所以被否决，是因为它没有解释大陆是如何穿过明显很坚固的海底的。
Stephen Jay Gould, for example, argues that continental drift theory was rejected because it did not explain how continents could move through an apparently solid oceanic floor.
"无法找到更多的大陆或更多的卫星了，几乎没有可能发现什么。
There are no more continents and no more moons to search for, little left to discover.
作为一个岛国，一个完整的大陆，澳大利亚具有明显的凝聚力。
An island country, a whole continent, Australia has a remarkably cohesive personality.
其实，澳大利亚已经干燥一百多年了，巨型金枪鱼所面临的大陆植被开始消失。
Indeed, Australia has been drying out for over a million years, and the megatauna were faced with a continent where vegetation began to disappear.
1912年，阿尔弗雷德·魏格纳在一个被称为“大陆漂移”的理论中提出，地球上的大陆是可移动的。
In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed, in a widely debated theory that came to be called continental drift, that Earth's continents were mobile.
第一代美国人把美国看成一个充满良机的大陆。
First-generation Americans view the United States as a land of golden opportunity.
他看不出英国和欧洲大陆的经济好转的迹象。
He sees no signs of improvement in the U.K. and continental economy.
尼日利亚是非洲人口最稠密的国家，也是非洲大陆的经济强国。
Nigeria is the most populous African country and an economic powerhouse for the continent.
其商店位列欧洲大陆最时尚的商店之中。
有些政治家想与欧洲大陆建立更加自由的贸易关系。
Some politicians want more liberal trade relations with Europe.
三分之一的非洲大陆面临着荒漠化的威胁。
但也有人假设，一块新的超级大陆将以一种不同的方式形成。
But others hypothesize that a new supercontinent will form in a different way.
我们不可能确定是两个大陆在向相反的方向移动，还是一个大陆是静止的，而另一个大陆在漂移。
It is not possible to determine whether both continents are moving in opposite directions or whether one continent is stationary and the other is drifting away from it.
越来越多的这种板块，即海床，将在大陆下方进入地幔。
More and more of this plate, the ocean floor, would go down under the continent into the mantle.
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